South Korea's most moving and unpopular work this year "Salute". The Korean women's version of "One Second", directed by Shin Soo-won, starring " Parasite " Lee Eun-yin , Quan Haixiao , and Tang Junxiang. This is a love letter dedicated to female filmmakers with a very gentle tribute to the feelings of films, women, love, perseverance, and dedicated to female film workers.
A movie that truly focuses on women, a very sincere female movie, and a very touching story. The film is not sensational, but handles it very restrainedly, without strong dramatic conflicts , gorgeous skills, and no reversal ending. Showing the dual dilemma of women in family and career, women's tolerance and mystery plot are moving. Li Yingyin acted so well, helpless and persistent, and her face was so calm. The heroine looks too much like Chinese Li Shaohong director
director Shin Soo-won said that "Salute" was started when she suddenly felt confused after she was working in the movie for ten years. I hope that the tribute can help her find her way again, and hope that the audience can find her own way.
This is a story about "salute". The narration tells the story of the female director Kim Ji-wan, who is in a difficult situation in middle age, takes over a meaningful but not very profitable job - completing the fantasy film journey experienced in the restoration of the first feature film "The Female Judgment", by Hong Eun-won, the second female director of South Korea. Affected by box office failures and menopause, the protagonist fell into a low point in his life. Unexpectedly, the film restoration work of the Korean "second" female director who participated as a part-time job turned out to be a strange adventure...
This is the story of a middle-aged female director traveling between the past and the present, experiencing a time trip between 1962 and 2022. Based on the real character Hong Enyuan and the restored actual movie "The Female Judgment", the frame-like structure conveys the sense of reality while adding a bit of fun to the fantasy element of "time travel".
Director Shin Soo-won uses a gentle and calm female perspective to make us approach the reality of some female filmmakers’ work and life in the time of a movie. Jin Zhiwan found the missing part of the film in the dilapidated theater. The scene of carefully identifying the film under a beam of light leaking from the ceiling will become the most impressive movie section of this year. It's really hard not to cry. This kind of "tribute" is really good.
Every woman has a very good image. The first female director in Korea who was murdered by her husband in reality, the first female judge in the story, the female editor who squatted down to work all his life, the female director who cut off the uterus , the female producer who said that he would live as long as he traveled, the female neighbor who died silently...
In this movie, the use of shadow is appropriate and comfortable. The shadow connects two female directors from different eras - chasing the illusory "shadow" to find traces of the past, but perhaps at some moment, the traces of the past will look back at me. It turns out that our situation is not different. Rather than saying that Zhiwan is running around to restore the work of film, it is better to say that because she is also a shadow and a microcosm of female filmmakers. What she is looking for is "their" love and persistence for films.
