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DMZ Docs Projects



Sasang

Park Bae-il

  • Korea
  • 90min
  • DCP

Social&Human Interest

Synopsis

Sung-hee, a lifelong welder, loses a finger while handing a press. Due to severe depression, he lacks sleep and becoming gaunt looking. He is having heavy thoughts and thinking it may be better to die than live like this. Soo-young who went on an all-night sit-in demonstration for 130 days cries out ¡®Let¡¯s live together!¡¯ Soo-young, who always had a bitter grin and walked the collapsed town with a limp, climbs up the watchtower, a prison in the sky, leaving a message to protect the community. Six years after Nawatsu has settled in Korea, he found a trading company. His dream of having his family in Korea comes true. Nawatsu thought everything would work out fine but when he sees his son¡¯s tears and his wife¡¯s sigh, he is faced with the prejudice and discrimination he had experienced before. The excavator ploughs its way through the tightly lined-up factories and breaks down the houses and factories without a break. Firecrackers are set off over the people¡¯s cheers and buildings to attract advanced knowledge industry rise high in the grey sky. Sasang which seemed to be firm with great operating machines collapses like a sandcastle in the rain and people¡¯s lives are isolated. Will they be crushed like this, with their hearts falling out of control? Sung-hee, Nawatsu, and Soo-young quietly move to support their lives.​

Review

Space is engraved with the history of individual lives and community, embracing the relationship network and power structure of society. The capital of neo-liberalism has expanded its tax base by reorganizing such space. The current Korean society is struggling with the craze of development. In the fine dust-filled sky, numerous cranes float around with construction materials. Not only that, the crazy wind of capital separates labor from life, taking people¡¯s time away and enriching body and mind. The film stocks up the traces of the ¡°idea¡± that the capital has scratched as well as the traces of ¡°life¡± and ¡°body¡± of the main characters who have been constantly exploited. Furthermore, it reveals the labor and existence that the capital tried to hide. This journey will be a gloomy light. With such light, the film demonstrates as a landscape the slow steps of Sung-hee that dreams of a life of a laborer, Nawatsu​ that resists discrimination, and Soo-young that continues activities of solidarity for the community. Along this less stimulating landscape, we will find a lamp that will cause a small crack in this capital-tainted city.​

Director

  • Park Bae-il

    Legend of Miryang2 – Miyang Arirang (2014)Legend of Miryang 1 (2013)Sea of Butterfly (2011)Byeonhwa (2011)Cruel Season (2010)​ 

Credit

  • Producer±èÀ챂 KIM Ilgwon