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Shin Sung-Il Is Lost
Sin Seongil ui Haengbang Boolmyeong [SHINS] South Korea, 2004, 103 min, Color & B/W , DigiBeta (NTSC) In Korean with English Subtitles North American Premiere Directed By: Shin Jane PROD/SCR/ED: Shin Jane CAM: Yeo Chul-Soo, Jung Sang-Hoon MUS: Baik Seung-Joo CAST: Cho Hyun-Sik, Ye Soo-Jung, Moon Seul-Ye, Woo Joon-Young, Jung Young-Soo |
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The first thing to say is: it should be called Shin Sung-Il, Spirited Away. A video copy of Miyazaki’s animé is seen discarded on a scrapheap near the start, and a narrator explains that no homage should be inferred; they’ve merely nicked the title. "Shin Sung-Il" and the names of other main characters are also nicked (from famous Korean movie stars of the recent past), so it’s clear that iconoclasm is on the agenda. But Shin Jane (who bills herself as "CEO and receptionist of Shinjaneland, Korea’s smallest film studio") is actually as much a humourist as an attacker of reputations. She imagines a rural Christian orphanage where the kids are taught that eating is a sin and that the sight of others eating is disgusting. The grasping adults who run the place don’t starve themselves, of course, and when the kids discover they’re being tricked a rebellion of sorts erupts. Young Shin Sung-Il runs away into town and discovers the pornographic reality of restaurants and communal eating... You can’t help being reminded of Buñuel and Terayama, but Shin Jane brings a quality of wide-eyed scepticism to the table that marks her as a startling new talent in her own right. (PS: Don’t miss the closing trailer for the sequel!) |
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