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Cheol-ae-kum

(Cheol-ae-kum)
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Original Title : Cheol-ae-kum
Time : 98 Min
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2014
Director : Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
Writer : Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
Producer : Kim Kyungmi
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States, Korea, Republic of
Original Language : Korean
About : A love story comes to an end when a woman sets out in search of a shamanic god. Director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park takes the trauma of a spurned lover as the starting point for his own search for a god. He makes several finds across various ...See moreA love story comes to an end when a woman sets out in search of a shamanic god. Director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park takes the trauma of a spurned lover as the starting point for his own search for a god. He makes several finds across various narrative strands - among whales in the sea, in a shipyard, at a steelworks. All of them are giants of their respective times: vast, sublime, godlike. Park's imagery also evokes the divine: embers and steel, sparks and fire; people dwarfed by huge cogwheels, robbed of their individuality. A brave new world in which workers produce modern industrial goods, even as the industry has long since been producing the modern worker. Work is a god we have submitted to. Yet every existence is temporary and fleeting, which applies in equal measure to both relationships and gods. Written by Kyung Kun Park See less Read more: Plot summary

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