These are troubled times we live in. Times of isolation, helplessness, frustration. Overwhelmed by divisive social and economic structures, compartmentalized into techno-bureaucratic structures, helpless facing systematized corruption and the specter of environmental collapse, what is the individual to do? Many of the films of this year’s Busan International Film Festival reflect a global malaise of the overwhelmed individual. From Korea to China to the Philippines, prospects seem bleak for the average person, but perhaps, as suggested by Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s most recent film, if we could only rid ourselves of some faulty conceptions, we might just find a way forward.Shin Su-won’s Glass Garden opened this year’s Busan International Film Festival and follows the trajectories of two characters solitary by nature: Bio-technician Jae-yeon (Moon Geun-young) and novelist Jihun (Kim Taehun). The frail, handicapped researcher, aiming to revolutionize the way humans live by creating green blood cells which...
- 12/20/2017
- MUBI
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