In fact, we also prepared the ending of Lee Soo Hyuk who didn't die. Five years after the incident, Lee Soo Hyuk, who became a civilian, flew to Nairobi in order to meet Oh Young Bi, who was once again a military instructor and was playing football with Africans. Such an ending seems like a happy reunion, but from the point of view of only meeting in a third country, it is still a tragedy. At that time, we were also distressed in the editing department for a long time. In the end, a minority obeyed the majority and chose the ending in the film. Until now, I still don’t know whether our choice was correct or not. In fact, I prefer the original plan.
Sorry, I can't remember exactly what that scene in De Palma was like. The equipment used in the "Common Security Area" is the American Jimei rocker [illustration], which uses a rotary shooting method. I don't know if "The Dawn of Love Owl" also adopts such a shooting method. Anyway, this scene echoes the moment when Chengzhi committed suicide by jumping off the building in the first film. Soo Hyuk, who was very self-blaming because of Sung Shik's suicide, could only commit suicide in the place where Sung Shik's blood was still left. In order to highlight Soo Hyuk's mental journey at that time, he adopted the same shooting technique. I don’t know if you have noticed that the faces of the two of them are upside down at that moment. If you want to take a normal photo, you have to turn the camera upside down, and the background will also be upside down. In other words, it was a recurring theme of the contradiction between the individual and the system.
When preparing for the work, I must have read a lot of works on the North-South issue. What is your most impressive work among them? I haven't seen one.
The character in the original novel was originally a male. The reason for changing to a woman is very simple, it is to set a complete stranger. In the case of the confrontation between the two Koreas, the Swiss, especially the Koreans, are particularly disgusted with mixed-race people, and they are in a patriarchal society. There, she would be the lonely spectator everyone hates, like a black New York detective in a southern ravine surrounded by country folk.
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