To love poetry is to seek beauty Dark silent river slowly carries the lifeless body of a young girl. With his premature death begins a beautiful and really poetic film directed by Jang Dong Lee, recognized at home as the best Korean film of 2010.
The river of life of the main character of “Poetry” – Jan Miji – has long flowed into its second half. The grandmother of the unlucky teenager Wook, Midja lives in a small town. Lives on a small state allowance, works as a maid. The image of Migi from the beginning of the film is not easy. She used to look elegant, pleasant in communication. Sometimes a woman seems too distracted from reality, can commit incomprehensible to others actions. The intrigue adds that we know almost nothing about her life path. Uncertainty is exactly what can become a new reference point.
Slow storytelling and full of details - like an invitation to the viewer to stand in the place of Miji, take your life baggage and go to poetry courses. In the first class, we will be asked to look at the most familiar things - at least an apple - a little from the other side. If we really want to write a poem and are as honest with ourselves as Midge, then we will definitely take the advice of the teacher. Even if we don’t care about apples. We must try, even though many other things are in no hurry to open up to us with their unexpected faces.
Then one day in a hopeless situation, beauty can overtake us and suggest the right solution and the right words to open the heart to the whole world and write the main poem of his life.
Depth is the best noun that characterizes poetry. The depth of everyday events through the eyes of the director. The depth of man is wisdom as the ability to separate the important from the unimportant.
10 out of 10
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