In the film directed by Park Chul Soo entitled, 301, 302, the story revolves around two women who live in opposing apartments as the title suggests: Yunhee, a writer who deals with anorexia as a result of trauma from the sexual abuse incurred by her stepfather as well as the death of young child within their family meat locker. The other being a highly compulsive cook, Song Hee, who spends an inordinate amount of her time cooking, buying new ingredients and doing her best to surpass her past cooking. Although they both come from different backgrounds, their fate and eventual twisted relationship soon develops as a result of the few things they have in common regarding sex, trauma, centered around food. Their relationship comes to fruition as a way of Song Hee cooking and attempting to feed Yunhee to heal her anorexia. This film is also told through about three flashbacks regarding both of these characters’ past histories, their relationship within the backdrop of a detective investigating Yun Hee's disappearance.
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These are colors that are usually associated with concepts such as “good” and “evil.” When the characters are simply sitting in leisure such as eating a meal, these scenes have a heavy blue tone of color maybe serving as a representation of peace and calmness these characters are experiencing though their lives are entrenched with traumatic moments. That is where the red tone comes in to display the “evils” done unto or by them. In the case of Yunhee, the red tone is heavily expressed in scenes involving meat, something she would associate with her step-father who continuously sexually abuses her and also seems to abuse her own mother. Also as a result of the young girl being found frozen to death within the meat locker, which is now why as an adult she sees meat and most other food as disgusting, and is thus unable to
These are colors that are usually associated with concepts such as “good” and “evil.” When the characters are simply sitting in leisure such as eating a meal, these scenes have a heavy blue tone of color maybe serving as a representation of peace and calmness these characters are experiencing though their lives are entrenched with traumatic moments. That is where the red tone comes in to display the “evils” done unto or by them. In the case of Yunhee, the red tone is heavily expressed in scenes involving meat, something she would associate with her step-father who continuously sexually abuses her and also seems to abuse her own mother. Also as a result of the young girl being found frozen to death within the meat locker, which is now why as an adult she sees meat and most other food as disgusting, and is thus unable to