Word: jeon
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...critics. Few would be surprised if awards went to the Coen brothers' crime drama No Country for Old Men or the Romanian 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days. Either Josh Brolin or Javier Bardem, the hero and villain of No Country, would be a fine choice for Best Actor. Jeon Do-yeon, the addled widow in the Korean Secret Sunshine, and Asia Argento, in An Old Mistress, give just the sort of passionate, showy performances that win Best Actress awards. And there are other films, esteemed by the critics, that might also appeal to the Jury. One is The Edge...
...Secret Sunshine. That's the literal Chinese translation for Miryang, a town to which the thirtysomething widow Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) has retreated with her young son Jun. In Miryang, people are friendly and compulsively helpful, especially a garage mechanic (Korean superstar Song Kang-ho) who is clearly, clumsily smitten by Shin-ae. She needs all the help she can get when another tragedy befalls her. She joins a Christian fellowship and indulges the mechanic's devotion. But her mind and spirit spiral into disarray as her behavior becomes more destructive and self-destructive...
...Some fervently admired Secret Sunshine, others thought it slow and forced; and you can get those varying opinions from the authors of this journal. The big news here is Jeon's performance, which is being touted for the Best Actress prize. She can play ferocious or catatonic with equal plausibility. Jeon also has a way of turning on a small smile in the most extreme moments, as if to share a sly intimacy with the audience. Does she want viewers to see the full humanity of the troubled Shin-ae? Or is she telling us not to probe too deeply...
...social club, according to Jong, who interviewed more than 200 teens over five years to prepare his independent study of the phenomenon. Senior gang members use younger iljin to intimidate still younger children into giving them money to finance dates and rowdy, beer-fueled parties. Jong, who teaches at Jeon Nong high school in Seoul, says gang members use the Internet to organize regional and even national networks. One favorite pastime: the so-called "fainting game," in which kids derive an oxygen-deprivation rush from strangling each other until they nearly pass...
What about Tony Leung and Wong Kar-Wai, the powerhouse art-film duo who between them have won eight Oscar equivalents in Hong Kong and two Cannes Film Festival awards? There’s also Jeon Ji-hyun, whose romantic comedies have set her up to be Korea’s next leading female actress. And Stephen Chow, Hong Kong’s answer to Ben Stiller, who writes unconventional and intelligent comedies. Apparently, we just aren’t ready to see Asian people in everyday life, when they’re not in period films depicting them recklessly...