Jang Sun Woo’s A Petal (1996) and Lee Chang Dong’s Peppermint Candy (1999) are two films that confront the highly traumatic Gwangju Democratization Movement in unique ways… Arguably the most well known ould be considered ???? Give a new perspective, …. two influential Korean New Wave directors. (Depending on 1st sentence However, (?)It was only following the relaxation of censorship laws that enabled filmmakers to look back at the movement and tackle its sensitive issues through cinema. A Petal and Peppermint Candy deal with the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement, amongst other issues, from entirely different perspectives but it is possible to draw certain parallels between the way the two films deal with portraying the movement. These include
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Petal - rape / appearance change , heavy weight to bear
PC - even more prominent - PC is symbol of innocence , final scene (first chronological scene) sunny, happy, simple , bright colours REFERENCE BORDWELL / THOMPSON BOOK contrasts rest of film - innocent, before being tainted, PC crushed in mobilisation for Gwangju, naivety of Young ho
Bordwell Thompson limited palette - “This involves a few non contrasting colors.” “The limited palette allows the view to make finer distinctions of intensity or saturation in the composition.” p,210 therefore in the scenes with warm colors, more saturation = more noticable - more effective - proves a point.
p.126 The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion 2nd Edition Pathetic Fallacy = “This is John Ruskin’s famous phrase for the poetic convention whereby inanimate things are imbued with human emotion” Graham et al. 2014 Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan Lee Chang Dong uses a range of techniques to emphasise the theme of Yeong Ho’s loss of innocence in Peppermint Candy, one of these would be the use of peppermint candy as a
WHATS THE POINT? TO SHOW THAT…?
Petal - rape / appearance change , heavy weight to bear
PC - even more prominent - PC is symbol of innocence , final scene (first chronological scene) sunny, happy, simple , bright colours REFERENCE BORDWELL / THOMPSON BOOK contrasts rest of film - innocent, before being tainted, PC crushed in mobilisation for Gwangju, naivety of Young ho
Bordwell Thompson limited palette - “This involves a few non contrasting colors.” “The limited palette allows the view to make finer distinctions of intensity or saturation in the composition.” p,210 therefore in the scenes with warm colors, more saturation = more noticable - more effective - proves a point.
p.126 The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion 2nd Edition Pathetic Fallacy = “This is John Ruskin’s famous phrase for the poetic convention whereby inanimate things are imbued with human emotion” Graham et al. 2014 Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan Lee Chang Dong uses a range of techniques to emphasise the theme of Yeong Ho’s loss of innocence in Peppermint Candy, one of these would be the use of peppermint candy as a