Watched a South Korean film ("3-Iron") last night. I had thought that I rented a Chinese movie thanks to the Chinese characters in its title. (Both the Korean and Japanese languages have borrowed Chinese characters.) No wonder I couldn't remember having ever heard of this 'Chinese' movie. I had speculated that it was one of the small-budget Chinese productions aimed at winning awards in Europe. Had I checked out the director's name, I would have noticed its real origin.
Thus I had my first taste of modern South Korean film making. With a surreal plot and minimum sound effect, it is rather queer and somewhat pretentious. Certainly vastly different from the North Korean films I grew up watching, which were actually quite entertaining, with good story lines and very beautiful songs.
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