Synopsis
Do-seong (Yoo Min) is a child monk who lives at a small mountain temple with the head monk (Byeon Ki-jong), learning the teachings of Buddha. He becomes attached to a young widow (Choi Eun-hee) who comes to pray at the temple, and the childless widow entreats the head monk to let her raise Do-seong as her own son. Conflict ensues when Do-seong's real mother (Kim Seon-young) appears, but she leaves the temple for the sake of her son's future. On the day the widow is to take the child down from the mountain, the head monk discovers that Do-seong has killed a bird by ensnaringit in a trap and decides not to let the boy go into the secular world. When Do-seong finds out that his real mother has been to the temple, he sets out to find her.
Notes
"A film that has garnered recognition for its cinematography and direction by eliminating sentimentality and unaffectedly capturing the quiet life of a mountain temple. A Hometown in Heart demonstrates the camera technique and directorial skill of movies that appeared after the liberation of Korea."
A Hometown in Heart, adapted from playwright Ham Se-deok's A Little Monk (Dong-seung), was hailed upon its release as "a masterpiece that marked a new pinnacle in Korean moviemaking after the liberation." Eschewing new-school sentimentality to quietly express a boy's longing for maternal love, the film unfolds the everyday lives of three generationsthe head monk, a young monk, and a little child monkagainst the backdrop of a quiet temple in the mountains. The long shots utilized by director of cinematography Han Hyung-mo to capture the beautiful scenery of the mountain temple from a distance received great critical acclaim at the time. Also, each of the film's characters is convincingly portrayed through the skillful direction of Yoon Yong-kyu. In particular, the scene which expresses Do-seong's desperate yearning for a mother's love and his birth mother's past visit to the temple by combining them into a dream sequence reveals deep consideration for articulating story and emotion via a compressed visual grammar without tending toward sentimentalism. The movie's final scene, in which Do-seong awakens from his dream and sets off down the path in search of his mother, is both touching and beautiful. The film also features Choi Eun-hee, in the part of the young widow who warmly embraces Do-seong with her love, in one of her first roles.
Afterword:
- Lee Kang-su, writing under the pseudonym of Kwak Il-byeong, first adapted playwright Ham Se-deok's A Little Monk (Dong-seung) into a screenplay, which was then shot for the silver screen with additional embellishments by the director.
我喜欢这部电影的架构，正是在于它用这样简单又通透的方式，呈现了生命的不可切割性和神秘主义。告别童年，只会发生在年龄层面上，而我们一直都背负着整个生命历程，同时需要面对未来的不确定性。这意味着，我们不能剥离开附着在连续经历中的深切感受，否则将很难形成真诚的思考。就像一个被忽略的孩童无法形成完整的人格，当我们用回避去掩盖内心的冲突，持续忽略被解读为“幼稚”的冲动而不是面对的话，也很难真正的成熟起来。
就非常温柔，看似不经意插入的纪录片取材片段的「无剧本感」很巧妙，当孩子们谈论他们的感受，关于未来，孤独，愤怒，以及他们眼中的世界
Miles总是给每个角色最大的尊重，在他的电影里每个人都值得被爱被倾听。这部新作剧作层面明显不如前两作，但依然保持着细腻敏感。孤儿扮演这个设定很绝，侄子和叔叔互相拯救，依然保留学习成长的主题，温柔真的可以拯救一切。
希望电影不要结束，因为太温柔了无法切断。（去电影院看真是太值了。
多么难得的舅舅，多么天才的孩子，伯牙子期！看到黑白的纽约，怀念啊！
當cliche 拍得不落俗套，孩子想像的未來以及成年人不敢面對的將來，累極時為自己打打氣，c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon。生命糟透了，但很正常。
黑白的畫面彷彿是現今灰濛蒙的疫情世界，但大人和小朋友還是可以互相慰藉。
影片视角：
成年后兀自感到的孤独和失落可能源于已经忘记的儿时经历的不愉快，偶尔在某一刻又回忆想起，想要记录下来当时却没有纸笔，随后安慰自己算了吧，也不是什么重要的事情。
看似平淡但却无比真挚的叔侄感情，黑白色调选的太好了，纪录片导演受到姐姐的委托照顾自己的儿子，叔侄在相处中不断破冰，叔叔告诉了侄子他和孩子姐姐关系看似不好的原因，以及孩子父亲的挣扎，最令人动容的时刻莫过于小孩要被送回家向叔叔道歉，和母亲来接他的不舍。影片还引入了许多问题，而儿童的回答却很有深度，令人深思儿童的视角，太喜欢小男主了。
just bc someone isnt like u, doesnt mean that they are wrong.
今夜月色真美。
充满孩童的天真与任性，和来自长大了的孩子的痛苦与温柔。在新装修好的laemmle观看过程极其放松，像是身心都浸泡在温泉里。虚构与现实交汇，极度私人又容易共情；流畅的对白和剪辑，处理妥当的光线和阴影。如果有一天我真的也拍电影，大概这就是我想拍的片子的样子吧。（btw之前因为去看了belfast以为这俩题材相近，就错过了这部的首轮院线。看完简直要大喊这不比belfast好看多了嘛！这不值得几个提名吗！）
原来里面采访小孩子的部分是真实采访，男主和侄子的部分是fiction，被影片呈现的成年人和小孩建立互相尊重的亲密关系的过程打动…推荐所有养小孩和打算养小孩的看
杰昆变华金，搞得我差点不知道还蛮喜欢的男演员出新片了
尊重 好奇 互相启迪 几乎是我理想中完美的亲子关系 成人永远不知道可以从孩子那里学到多少 人究竟经过了怎样的成长 才会忘记认知自己 【叔好温柔 羡慕他和Mara的娃 【成年人就是不断还贷款🥲 202203 好治愈 希望能帮我克服收假blue
好久没看黑白片了，摄影很棒，穿越过四个风格各异的美国城市，这样的色调也不会喧宾夺主。需要跟影像和时间一起放慢下来去体验这两位主角之间的bonding，孩子对世界的思考，成年人的焦虑。Over the years, you will try to make sense of that happy, sad, full, empty, always-shifting life you're in.
安安静静的一直看到了最后的最后。静静地感受两个小时生命，和自己的焦虑与不安和解。
杰昆真的是治愈系演员，感觉他很喜欢这一类性格的边缘化角色，有着感性温柔的内心，有着自己的脆弱，just trying to understand others , like all of us.常常会忍不住和他的角色产生共鸣，觉得那简直就是自己。
非常舒服、温柔的一部电影。城市里各种场景的切换，叔侄之间的日常对话和相处细节，侄子的每一个提问，不断推着人思考。Phoenix真的太神了，上一秒感觉他随时要癫狂成小丑，下一秒他举着麦克风自言自语的时候又幻化成爱上AI的那个男人。每一个都是他。
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