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"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)

Yun Jeong-hi in Poetry

Cast: Yun Jeong-hi, Lee Da-wit, Kim Hee-ra, Ahn Nae-sang, Kim Yeong-taek, Park Myung-shin, Kim Jong-goo, Kim Hye-jun, Min Bok-gi. Screenplay: Lee Chang-dong. Cinematography: Hyun Seok Kim. Production design: Jum-hee Shin. Film editing: Hyu Kim. 

Haunting and unsentimental in its portrait of a woman in pain, victimized by circumstance, Lee Chang-dong's Poetry is at once a celebration of its title subject and an exploration of its limits.

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