Poetry

Poetry

  • Director: Chang-dong Lee
  • Countries of origin: South Korea
  • Language: Korean
  • Release date: February 11, 2011
  • Sound mix: Dolby, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Поезія
  • "Poetry" is a feature film directed and written by Lee Chang-dong, starring Jeong-hie Yun , Lee David , and 안내상 . It was released in South Korea on May 13, 2010. 
    The film tells the story of a Korean elderly Miko who lives in a lonely and dark world, but still works hard to learn how to write Poetry. Facing the crime of grandson, she deeply felt the distress of a sinner deep in her heart. 

    Details

    • Release date February 11, 2011
    • Production companies UniKorea Pictures, Pine House Film, Diaphana Films

    Box office

    Budget

    ₩1,300,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $356,149

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $18,900

    Gross worldwide

    $2,539,040

    Movie reviews

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    • By Bud 2022-08-02 09:36:01

      Poetry--This is a Nostalgic Poem for Mother

      Mom, are you feeling lonely? Is there still sunset in the evening, and the birds flying to the forest still sing? Can you receive the unsent letter? Can you hear the unspoken words? Time goes by? Will roses wither? Now is the time to say goodbye. Like the wind that stays and flies like a shadow. The never-fulfilled promise The love that's buried forever The grass that kisses my weary ankles The little footsteps that chase me It's time to say goodbye. When darkness comes, will...

    • By Herta 2022-07-29 16:07:15

      "Poetry"--Poems Written with Life

      Poems Written with Life-Feelings to Rewatch "Poems" A month ago, netizen Ms. LinP. said that she liked Li Cangdong's film "Poems" very much. In fact, I don't understand why I say this. Maybe I just blurted it out from my first look, and when Ms. LinP. asked "how to see it", she was speechless. For a month, I always wanted to watch this film again, first to understand why...

    • By Darius 2022-07-27 19:56:41

      A Few of My Own Feelings about "Poetry"

      The sun is shining on the bright road; the cooked food in the store is steaming; and the children are in the weeds by the river, looking for the strange-shaped stone.

      Cockscomb was dripping with blood, holding a proud shield. The

      Ripe plums fall on the road in the country.

      Paralyzed old people This man, secretly in love with his nurse, the

      The apple gleams, looking forward to the spinning blade.

      The woman with amnesia, sitting

      In...

    • By Elliot 2022-04-24 07:01:23

      Song of Agnes

      The light is attached to the water, reflecting the scorching heat of the hot summer. The river was surging, and there was a young corpse floating. An image "poetry" that symbolizes beauty and ideals, written in Korean, is as sharp and cold as the tip of a knife, just like the two lines of light and dark in the film - Meizi uses "poetry" as a representative of her poetic understanding of life, and her understanding of life. The exploration of the pure ideal spiritual world...

    • By Arnold 2022-04-24 07:01:23

      "When the salmon were migrating", take a note of the poems at the Poetry Reading Party

      "Writing Poems"

      Memories of the early morning of the tenth winter lunar month

      hand with swollen joints

      white rice mother

      writing poetry is

      Waking up late at night crying alone

      For the gradually collapsing spiritual pillar

      stand firmly

      be a solid foundation

      empty window

      Do everything possible to support

      Soothe all night swaying to sleep

      will keep scooping out and still pouring in

      water with moss

      clean up...

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    • By Maia 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      Meizi leaves the hospital, the audience sees the village woman through her subjective lens, Yin Jingji 'wrongly' goes from the back of the camera to the front, Meizi's perspective changes to the audience's perspective, and the two mothers are on the screen. As the grandson of Miko's spiritual fulcrum, she was 'forgotten' in the narrative from the beginning of the film. Makeup and flowery clothes are the preservation of the forgotten old man's life before he lost his memory. Poetry does not...

    • By Elfrieda 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      Feeling the world in the way of a poet can actually bring you closer to the pain. For poets it is a necessity, for most people it is a diversion. So more people treat life with laughter, and poets are destined to feel the difficulty of life in crying, and this is the...

    • By Shaun 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      After watching this film, Lee Chang-dong became my favorite Korean director. There is tenderness in the bland, no matter how intense things are, they must be covered by life on the surface. You can really feel it, but you can't directly witness it. What you can see is like the imagery in poetry. The film's rich intertextuality in the plot and the intertextuality with "Miryang", the expression of the whole film is subtle, euphemistic, and meaningful. Poetry is written with life and kindness...

    • By Jaunita 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      The rare story is told calmly from beginning to end, and the audience is amazed, understood, doubted, and finally relieved in the dullness. Like a poem without an exclamation mark, it silently moves...

    • By Tamara 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      I still feel that some people in the world are very inferior and should die quickly. For example, children like grandma’s grandson have no brains, no morals, and no emotions. If they live on, they are useless to mankind and society. If the grandmother had been alive, dementia would technically have helped her write poetry with metaphors. Grandma is a person who writes poetry with...

    Movie plot

    65-year-old woman Miko ( Jeong-hie Yun(Played) and his grandson ( Lee David ) who was in junior high school live alone in a small town. Every day, she will dress herself spotlessly and go out to do nursing work. Although her life was poor, she did not affect her enthusiasm for life in the slightest. Then, as she got older, her memory slowly declined. Although she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, she loved Poetry songs and...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The child star Lee David, who plays the grandson, was selected through the elimination rate of 1000:1.
    The name of the protagonist " Miko " is the real name of the starring Jeong-hie Yun before his debut.
    The film has won the PPP program of the 13th Busan Film Festival the 20,000 US dollars film subsidy....
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    Evaluation action

    When others are more expressing the loneliness, loneliness, and sadness of the elderly, Lee Chang-dong brings to the audience an elderly woman who loves life, is independent, strong and lovely. And with her eyes, she led the audience to observe the world around them with a new perspective and discover new meanings of things. This is what children do in most movies. The film embodies, first of all, the care for women. The protagonist...
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