Group scenes, meanwhile, often suffer from a peculiar handheld drift, as if in troubling over which insult to add to which injury, the filmmakers neglected to attend to rudimentary blocking.
The Journals of Musan(무산일기)
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Korea · 2010
2h 7m
Director Park Jung-bum
Starring Park Jung-bum, Jin Yong-uk, Kang Eun-jin
Genre Drama
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North Korean defector Seung-chul is a refugee living on the harsh edges of Seoul. Bewildered by exploitative employers and cynical urbanites, he’s no good for business. A powerful realism underscores this prize-winning feature debut about the struggle to survive in a strange new world.
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An attempt to detail the plight of North Koreans in their new homeland, The Journals of Musan doesn't soft-pedal the hardship; Park, however, apparently felt obligated to stack the deck against the film's passive protagonist to a ridiculous degree.
The New York Times by Mike Hale
Mr. Park's screenplay, pedestrian direction and stolid performance don't set us up to care.
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