Directors: Park Chan-wook & Park Chan-kyong

Year: 2011

Notes 

• Explores mortality
• Filmed on an iphone

How the protagonist and other characters are established and developed

• The protagonist is explored in interesting ways as they become seen through an entirely different body/person.
• The singing people at the beginning are explored but only later in the film, and they are watching the protagonist?
• The child makes the film very emotional
• The woman is established through mystery

How time and place are established and represented

• Night-time is when everything changes
• The ocean is represented as dangerous????

The use of enigma and narrative crisis and resolution

• A lot of the drama revolves around family struggles
• The use of inanimate objects like the hat and the use of bells

An exploration of binary oppositions in the films

Humans and Nature

• The man is shown as disruptive to nature? The amount of fishing rods seemed invasive, the cutting of the fish in close up seemed cruel and violent. However, at one point her wear no shoes possibly implying a closeness to nature.
• The nature/sea/river is represented as dangerous to humans?

Men and Women

• The man is shown as more emotional than the women

Night and Day

• Bad things tended to happen at night?
• The day tended to have beautiful nature shots and colour