Starring: Lee Chang Hoon, Yoo Seung Ho
Director: Song Dong Yoon
Studio: Tae Won Entertainment (Korea)
Rating: NR
Genre: Comedy
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About This DVD
On a remote island in South Jeolla Province, a dozen students share a single
classroom. Deprived of modern technology, they hardly know the difference
between a bicycle and a pair of glasses. As they see it, both have two circles,
and that's that. "Unforgettable" (Seoul-i boinya), directed by debut filmmaker
Song Dong-yoon, brings back memories of pre-modern day Korea when islanders used
to get by with a handful of basic tools, and rarely got out of their hometown.
Director Song, fortunately, has not fallen into the trap of stirring up romantic
nostalgia. Instead, he employs a story-within-a-story structure, focusing on
timeless educational issues such as what makes a good teacher and what is really
needed for adventure-seeking students.In the movie which will be released on
Thursday, Gil-su (played by Lee Chang-hoon) is a dedicated teacher who wants to
take his students on a field trip during the upcoming summer vacation. But his
desire to offer students the rare chance to get out of the city and into nature
invites only a reproachful glare from the principal, who claims that parents
wouldn't let their "busy" kids go on a field trip.
The summer vacation starts - without a field trip - and Gil-su goes back to his
hometown of Sindo, a small island where he lived and learned along with his
friends. Back then, Gil-su (played by Yoo Seung-ho) was a reserved, thoughtful
and love-hungry kid who took care of his kid sister, Young-mi (Kim Yoo-jeong),
especially when their drunkard father lost his temper. Gil-su deeply missed his
mom, who got fed up with island life and left the family several years before to
find a new life in Seoul.
His only consolation was to dream about her at night. And his sister envied his
ability to conjure up their mother's image in dreams, as she has no memory of
her mother. A positive sign came when their teacher Eun-young (Oh Soo-ah)
received a letter from a cookie factory in Seoul. Earlier, she asked for
permission to visit the place as part of a field trip itinerary, and the factory
said it would be happy to welcome the students.
Eun-young, however, faced a harsh reality which parallels what Gil-su
experiences in the present tense of the movie. While Gil-su fails to persuade
the domineering parents to allow their kids to explore nature for a day, Eun-young
found it extremely difficult to persuade his fellow islanders to send their kids
to the big city. In both cases, the teachers want their students to experience
new things in a very different setting, but the parents see no merit to the
plan.
Islanders, in particular, seem to be fearful of the possibility that, once
exposed to the city and its radically different lifestyle, their children might
not come back to the small island again, as happened with many of their old
acquaintances who left for a fresh life in Seoul.
Eun-young's efforts were eventually rewarded, but an embarrassing development
unfolded in Seoul when she went on a much-anticipated field trip with her
students who were dying to try out such alluring modern contraptions as the
bicycle, though they're clueless about the pernicious complexity of the city
itself.
| Audio Format: | DD 2.0 |
| Video Format: | Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) |
| Languages: | Korean |
| Subtitles: | English, Korean |
| Country Made: | Korea |
| Region Code: | 3 |
| Year Made: | 2008 |
| Running Time: | 87 |
| Special Features: | - |
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