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Interview with Kim Gi-Deok 'Address Unknown', u" }" B3 M& M, B/ Z4 [
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Q. The title of your new film, Address Unknown is quite unique.
" g! K( g8 q4 M; r* J1 V! ~A. When I was growing up in the countryside, I remember many letters scattered on the ground, undelivered because they were sent to unknown addresses. Most of them were stuck in mailboxes for the longest time until they were swept away by the wind and thrust into the bottom of rice fields or a filthy ditch. Whenever I would see them, I was always overcome with this desire to open them, which in fact I attempted at a number of times. Quite a few contained sad, desperate tales. To me, the three characters in this film are just like the abandoned letters of my childhood. They are the children of an 'era which is yet to be received.' In the desolate plains, Chang-gook has been entirely violated; Eun-oak is halfway to that point; and Ji-hum will rise up, like a weed.
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Q. Going into this film, you raised the question, "Where does our cruelty come from?"
8 l- b" e1 H; [5 E( w+ yA. By dealing with the lives surrounding the U.S. military base, I wanted to ruminate on history from the Korean War down to the time of Japanese Imperialism. Perhaps the cruelest scene of this film is when the father repairs the gun found in the front yard of the family's house and shoots the chicken he has been raising. The violence repeated through generations, I believe this is the most uniquely Korean form of violence.
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Q. How did you come up with the extraordinary episodes in Address Unknown?
5 p) l: b. k) s. VA. This is actually a story from the time my friends and I were seventeen. Ji-hum's experiences are taken from mine, and the stories about his friend who commits suicide at the age of 27 and another friend who has only one eye are exactly how they really happened. 4 i& N2 X4 u" d, ?. {
' s( E0 _8 _$ [8 F3 }; ]Q. The relationship between Chang-gook and his mother is quite unique.
; k( g3 S, f# I, @. U1 qA. There are actually many similar cases around the U.S. military base. After the Korean War, many children of mixed heritage were adopted into America, but the ones left behind had to lay low, suffering along with their own mothers. I remember the headquarter of Holt Children's Services Inc. next to my elementary school. Perhaps that was the reason why there were always two or three more kids of mixed heritage in our class. At the time, I was quite afraid of them, and they were, in fact, violent. Among them were those who lived in small wooden shacks, just like the red bus that Chang-gook and his mother live in, who beat their mothers like Chang-gook did his. I was a 4th~5th grader at the time, and I remember it as vividly shocking. Now I can understand where this friend of my childhood was coming from. Nothing has changed as the pain and anguish continues. / k/ d7 C4 a7 M3 h5 l# k
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Q. The U.S. soldier in Address Unknown seems to go beyond the dichotomy between pro or anti U.S. sentiments which, as a whole, have defined our attitude towards the U.S.
7 Q: M8 o% V6 y- A5 `A. The U.S. military may be a familiar presence yet it is an uncomfortable one as well. They create small and large incidents, including sex crimes, which should be done away with, the sooner the better. However, the deep-seated military culture and the imperialist sentiments that this projects, cannot just be a matter of one or two U.S. soldiers causing problems. I was quite critical of the U.S. military at the time I was writing this script. However, as I was hunting for shooting locations, I began to feel a kind of sadness, looking at the shabby and filthy clubs surrounding the military bases in great numbers. It was isolation and loneliness I felt from the GIs wretchedly returning to their military base after spending time with Russian or Filipino girls they bought for a couple of dollars. For the first time, I asked myself if I had ever tried to understand them. It dawned on me that these men were just like the Korean soldiers dispatched to the Middle East. It made me see another side to the issue of sex crimes committed by U.S. soldiers. What could they really do in the extraterritorial jurisdiction area around the military base? They were only young men spending their youth in a foreign country In this sense, I would like to say that the position I take in Address Unknown is at the conjuncture between 'pro-U.S.' and 'anti-U.S.' sentiments. ' p2 V$ j5 }. E3 a* M
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Q. Unlike in your previous works, you place politics and history at the forefront of this film. 5 I- h& c$ x6 b
A. I think I have always talked about political issues in every one of my films. For example, Crocodile focuses on issues of normality and abnormality, and Birdcage Inn examines class distinctions. Perhaps it is the lyrical rather than political approach that separates those films from this one.
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