Dyslexia Movie Analysis

First I would like to just tell you that watching this film was extremely difficult for me. Due to my Dyslexia I find it very hard to watch films with subtitles but I think that I got the gist of the film and the hidden ideas within its context that you wanted us to look into. Over all I found the film to be very captivating and a doorway into context of how deep Confucian thought and law was embedded in Korean culture. As we discussed in class on Thursday Confucian ideals are super important to Korean culture, this is very apparent in the film through the portrayal of relationships. These relationships such as Master Lee and his wife Chunhyang are stereotypical, in that they follow the rules of Confucianism in how women are supposed to be filial to their husbands and their husbands alone. There is the section when confronted …show more content…
Some of the phrasing in the very beginning of the film when they are talking “the bridge possibly not being a bridge” sounds very much like a Daoism way of thinking and believing in the mystical and how things are not always what they seem. Also in the middle of the film when the fellow courtesan is singing about all of the courtesan’s of the past who are honored for their bravery sounds very Buddhist, like bodhisattvas if you are asking me. However, it might be similar to the woman we read about in “Under Confucian Eyes” which was an example of a combination between Confucianism and Daoism. This example is very similar to one of the examples the courtesan even sings about, which I find very interesting. These are the reasons why I feel that even though Korea was Confucian country, that just like China they were at times influenced, though minimally, by other