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English Review
review by Jerry Shin4 K- {3 X) Z5 W# U/ m2 x4 L" l
February 04, 2000' F! r D6 G- A% S
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Fly Low(aka Ha-U-Deung) is actually not a professional or commercial film. Instead of artificial camera working and splendid coloring, it makes people feel they're in a small amateur drama theater. But, it does not mean that this film is course and worthless to see. Because it's very fresh and neat film. Moreover, it has serious and polite consideration about a philosophic theme. Young experimentaions about various film makings in the formalism. Fly Low is definitely premature but becomes a clean shower in hot summer called commercial common movies just as it exists. - H0 R/ L1 z. C5 k' i, T- @4 ?
6 z d) o7 d; n+ q) h& m2 Z2 dDirector uses the film aesthetics of time and space. Ha-the summer and U-the rain represent specific seasons of an year. Characters share the same space at the different time. Fly Low is a documentary of their common memories shared by the space and the possiblity of encounter between two seperated railroads. These coincidence and passing of time and space shape meetings and relations among people. ' _) R6 w1 r/ Q+ a0 Q2 ?
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At the first 20 min., the camera is staring at three guys flee from the complex society to find a refuge. They must waste their time during the summer. The deserted rural elementary school let them feel free. The space let them returning to their innocence. They are criminals outside of the small school. For them, the small place supplies them a comfort shelter they did not have before. For the first time, those three guys spend time to drink, sing, dance and even quarrel. The camera is still staring at them silently. Their dance on the platform without any music melt on two eyes of audience. However, as time goes by, they begin to sink into themselves individually. All of them are from a same orphanage. Even though their personalities are very characteristic, they feel same loss in their soul. That hollow comes from the absence of their mother. For fleeing from the weight of their fate - they already fled from the outside society but couldn't get free from themselves. - one draws pictures, another is eager to leave and forget it and the other tries to make candles. At the first time, they look like just naive and young, but after the traumas of their souls appear, all of them look like seeking to their own remedies desperitely in the deserted school.
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After 20 min. of the running time, ti is devulged that the fact, there were three girls before those guys are coming. They graduated from this school 12 years ago. Those three girls share the same juvinile memories there, but they stand on seperate posts far from each other becoming mature. Like guys, even though girls also return to those old innocence for a while, they come back to their worn routine life. Her instant deviation succeed only a half.
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0 c1 l* B# x7 o% ^4 nGirls and guys cross each other at the different time in the same space. Even though their real meeting is impossble, this film makes it coincidences. So, divided and different things except the space are connected with a thin thread of karma(fate). Of course, director remains the possiblity of their relation just a suggestion.
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& r% ^9 H4 x9 [$ f0 aAfter a year passes by, she comes back to the deserted elementary school, There is still a guy painting and planting vegetables. The other two left already. But, his soul scar looks like being cured there. He doesn't wear a hat any more. The other guy burned a imaginary picture of his mother for forgiving and forgetting. After that night, he left before anybody else. He was also cured.
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Their meeting looks like a monk and a buddhist's and the deserted elementary school becomes a kind of sanctuary at the scene. All of them who come by the school are cured and find their remedies. The space becomes a womb of mother to them. Moreover, after watching them, we also wish the necklace would become a symbol of fate and meeting even though it is too dramatic and artificial. Maybe it's because we 're also there with them and cured through Fly Low. - |: A" D! P, g4 X. u, R2 A, z9 i+ P; J
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Director Kim Si-Eon made this film as a good sample of the independent film making. He spend just 80,000,000 won for this film. Forthemore, its printed on 16 mm film and recorded as the first 16 mm film released in commercial movie theaters. Fly Low has been already introduced in the New Currents Section at the last PIFF(98) and get good reactions from audience and the film
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