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Sung Chul Yang, the South Korean ambassador to the United States, highlighted the recent success of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung??€™s sunshine policy...
...Carl Jung??€™s writings claim that our dreams are based on images and archetypes and symbols. Our thoughts first begin as image. A Mexican, looking at Diego Rivera’s mural, may understand in one momentary look the history and concept of Mexico. The complex images shown in the mural are the same types of images that course rapidly through the Mexican’s mind when they see their own flag...
...drug binges. The money that accompanies the cocaine business causes a string of problems: betrayals occur left and right, friendships are broken and the now-married Jung and Mirtha fight constantly. The marriage does produce Kristina Sunshine Jung (Emma Roberts), the daughter who gives Jung meaning in his life. Jung??€™s love for his daughter provides a note of poignancy in the later arrests in the movie: Whereas previously jail seemed more an inconvenience or an occupational hazard, the enforced separation from Kristina is truly painful...
Despite all that, something doesn’t quite sit right about the film as a whole. Maybe one too many drug busts inures the viewer from the meaning. Maybe Demme tries to pack too much of Jung??€™s life into one movie. Either way, outside of the genuinely moving George-Kristina scenes, there’s too much of a detachment from George Jung. While Jung??€™s very name might seem to invite psychological analysis of the man, the movie never shows us why he does what he does, or why he is so ambitious...
...depiction of the life of George Jung is a welcome corrective from caricatured stereotypes of drug smugglers, the whole of the movie comes across as less than the sum of its occasionally brilliant parts. The movie keeps flitting from location to location, chasing the next high (or low) of Jung??€™s life, never stopping to fully take in what it all means...