Synopsis:
A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country’s takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean public to demand the truth behind the incident, and their government eventually opened previously classified files on the massacre.
Review:
The first mature attempt in Korean culture to come to terms with the Kwangju Massacre of 1980, an unhealed wound comparable with the Tiananmen Square massacre in the minds of Chinese. A young woman, nameless and mentally disturbed, wanders the countryside looking for her brother; she runs into a heavy-drinking labourer and starts tagging along behind him. He tries to get rid of her by insulting, abusing and finally raping her, but she stays with him. Through flashbacks (two of them animated) we learn what the man doesn’t know: how the girl’s brother and mother died, why she cracked mentally. The girl is perhaps too fragile a symbol to personify the entire nation’s trauma, but Jang’s shattering film none the less sets a new benchmark for the serious treatment of politics and sex in Korean cinema.
— TimeOut.
A.Petal.1996.DVDRip.x264.DD2.0.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1h 40mn Size: 1.09 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 716x360 ~> 716x402 Aspect ratio: 16:9 Frame rate: 23.976 fps Bit rate: 1 352 Kbps BPP: 0.219 Audio #1: Korean 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps
https://nitro.download/view/9471057E3311B63/A.Petal.1996.DVDRip.x264.DD2.0.mkv
Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English (muxed)
The post Sun-Woo Jang – Ggotip AKA A Petal (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.