Mist
Gi-jun, who climbed his way up to become an executive by marrying the widowed daughter of a pharmaceutical company CEO, feels bored about his work life. Sensing his lethargy, his wife suggests he take a trip home to Mujin. Gi-jun arrives in Mujin, which is known for nothing other than its mist and follows his friend Park to the house of Cho Han-su, the Head of Tax Affairs. There, he meets In-suk who graduated from a music school in Seoul and they become interested in each other.
* Source: Korean Film Archive
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Mist is a masterpiece of Korean modernist films, directed by Kim Sooyong, a leading figure in literary cinema. Adapted from Kim Seung-ok’s short story, Record of a Journey to Mujin, hailed as a revolution of sensitivity, the film follows a man’s mental wandering. Yun Gi-jun, who married a widow and rose to success overnight through her father’s pharmaceutical company, embarks on a journey to his hometown, Mujin, for a few days at his wife’s urging. He encounters a music teacher, Ha In-suk, reminiscent of his former self, and makes an empty promise. The film exposes the hypocrisy of intellectuals at the time. The cinematographer, Jang Seok-jun, captures the mist enveloping the film, effectively infusing it with a pervasive atmosphere of lethargy and dreaminess. The discord between sound and imagery, alongside the blurred boundaries between past and present or imagination and reality in directing, marked a novel experiment that introduced the style of European modernist cinema to Korea. The theme song of the same title by Jung Hoon Hee is well-known, and the film is also recognized as the inspiration for Decision to Leave (2022). (PARK Seho)
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