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A Petal
Variant Title:Kkonnip
Edition:KOFIC ed.
Content:Feature Film
Available From:Miracin Korea Co., Ltd.
Media Type:DVD
Release Date:1996
Audience:Higher Education
Running Time:101 min.
Language:Korean with English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and Spanish subtitles
Author:Directed by Jang Sun-woo
Resource Library Number:EAKDVD 56.1
Subject:History
Politics and Government
Subheading:History, 1951-1980
Social & Political Protest
Region:East Asia
Country:South Korea



Abstract:

In 1980, in the South Korean town of Kwangju, soldiers fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing hundreds. Director Jang Sun Woo powerfully personalizes this ugly chapter in South Korea's political history, creating necessary catharsis for his countrymen and at the same time composing an achingly beautiful lament for a lost child. Orphaned in the Kwangju massacre, her sanity lost in a mass grave, Jang Sun Woo's ghost of a girl wanders toward Seoul in search of a long-dead elder brother. The mad child's plight so speaks to the lumpish, unthinking laborer who has taken her in as a sexual utility that she resurrects his conscience and his humanity. The blighted innocence of this "petal" is also South Korea's, or any other nation that brutalizes its children.




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