After watching it, I looked at the director Yin Jijun, who is actually the director of the "Color is Empty" series. . . Wonderful fate.
"International Market" has great ambitions. From the era of war to the era of peace, it shows the process of South Korea's economic construction and national construction from the perspective of a small citizen. It also tells us that the construction of any modern nation-state is almost entirely personal. On the basis of the history of suffering.
There are many historical celebrity guest appearances in the movie. For example, the male protagonist polished the shoes of the founder of Hyundai Group when he was a child, and he met Nan Zhen, a popular artist at the time in the Korean battlefield. This is very similar to "Forrest Gump". Arranged in the movie for rearrangement, allowing the protagonist to briefly interact with the history with the halo, because whether Forrest Gump or this one, their perspectives are very small individuals, and it is necessary to arrange such "plot nails" for everyone to find The corresponding historical coordinates are also interesting at the same time.
And the core values of the whole family moved me even more, much like the Hong Kong movie "The Thief of the Years". East Asians will have a deeper understanding of these emotions.
"Supermarket" in the film is the name of the shopping mall where the family can live and live. It has grown from a market to a modern CBD. South Korea has also experienced the miracle of the Han River and grown into a mature and modern country, but it has also experienced many wars. The haze, the history of labor export, and finally the family has foreign guests, and there are many workers from underdeveloped areas on the streets of South Korea. South Korea is like a "supermarket" in the world. I think this is probably the double meaning of the title.
I met Hwang Jung-min and Lee Kwang-soo from "New World". These two treasures are really good. It's a pleasure to watch them both act in a movie. All in all, "Supermarket" is a highly completed personal and historical drama. Dialogue narrative.
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