plsletitrain
Member: Rank 5
I could’ve put this on the Recently Seen thread but I miss starting a new thread and plus, I guess this movie deserves a shout-out for being untalked about much but deserves a space in our hard drives. It has a whooping 5 votes on IMDb.
A low-key, old school Korean flick who flew below the radar from a director we all haven’t heard of (He only has this film on his credits on IMDb).
I got sold on the film because of course, anything with natural elements I’m quite hooked. The movie’s setting is on a field of green tea leaves, whatever they’re called. Lena (I love the name) is a Korean who was born and raised in Russia. She decides to go back to her homeland. At first I thought for vacation and immersion to culture. She stays in a house owned by a farmer.
They both explore the wonderful scenery together, doing things together, having moments together. At first I thought it was plain platonic until the farmer’s brother started talking about marriage and bride. Wait, I thought they were merely landlord, tenant? Later on it became apparent that she was a mail-order bride. Or international marriage as they put it. This came as a surprise to me. This is the first time I’ve seen such a subject on a Korean movie and I never knew this arrangement existed in South Korea. Can I sign up for a Korean celebrity? lol.
Another thing which I found cute here is ‘ya know, the friendship or arranged-marriage between a farmer (who to me looks older than the girl) and a foreign woman. Sounded like an unlikely couple (although the woman wasn’t really westernized) but the ending got me rooting for their love story. An inexperienced farmer and a lonely girl. The ending was a cool one. It will make you wonder whether it was a dream, or was it her parent’s ___ Okay, I’ll just stop in case I spoil anything.
There are a lot of “silent” scenes here, so silent I had to sometime put a background music of my own to keep me from sleeping. Lena frequently stares into lonely space, because she has a baggage of her own. And they would usually exchange some powerful quotable quotes and anecdotes that are quite deep. At least to me, they are. Pictures don’t lie. Lena likes taking pictures. There’s a lot of pictures here. Both literal and figurative. The film exudes the aura of tranquility, which jibes with its setting which is living in the provincial mountains. There’s no major plot twists, cruelty, profanity here but the simplicity of the film and its powerful last 30 minutes or so makes me want to tell the director to make more films such as this.
A low-key, old school Korean flick who flew below the radar from a director we all haven’t heard of (He only has this film on his credits on IMDb).
I got sold on the film because of course, anything with natural elements I’m quite hooked. The movie’s setting is on a field of green tea leaves, whatever they’re called. Lena (I love the name) is a Korean who was born and raised in Russia. She decides to go back to her homeland. At first I thought for vacation and immersion to culture. She stays in a house owned by a farmer.
They both explore the wonderful scenery together, doing things together, having moments together. At first I thought it was plain platonic until the farmer’s brother started talking about marriage and bride. Wait, I thought they were merely landlord, tenant? Later on it became apparent that she was a mail-order bride. Or international marriage as they put it. This came as a surprise to me. This is the first time I’ve seen such a subject on a Korean movie and I never knew this arrangement existed in South Korea. Can I sign up for a Korean celebrity? lol.
Another thing which I found cute here is ‘ya know, the friendship or arranged-marriage between a farmer (who to me looks older than the girl) and a foreign woman. Sounded like an unlikely couple (although the woman wasn’t really westernized) but the ending got me rooting for their love story. An inexperienced farmer and a lonely girl. The ending was a cool one. It will make you wonder whether it was a dream, or was it her parent’s ___ Okay, I’ll just stop in case I spoil anything.
There are a lot of “silent” scenes here, so silent I had to sometime put a background music of my own to keep me from sleeping. Lena frequently stares into lonely space, because she has a baggage of her own. And they would usually exchange some powerful quotable quotes and anecdotes that are quite deep. At least to me, they are. Pictures don’t lie. Lena likes taking pictures. There’s a lot of pictures here. Both literal and figurative. The film exudes the aura of tranquility, which jibes with its setting which is living in the provincial mountains. There’s no major plot twists, cruelty, profanity here but the simplicity of the film and its powerful last 30 minutes or so makes me want to tell the director to make more films such as this.
