Poetry

Saw this film this afternoon. It is the 5th Korean film I've seen of late. Like Secret Sunshine it is another bleak and tragic tale of female suicide. In this case the protagonist is killed by her sense of right and wrong. Her heart is broken by what she knows she must do. What is striking about this film and the others is the bleak landscape that they are set against. Urban life in Korea looks like one horror after another of sexism, construction, rabbit warren homes and grandmothers taking care of children. Mainly, young, shiftless males who are over the top macho, lazy, good for nothings. And, people these are made by ambitious young male directors. So what gives here. The female characters come off as the ones with integrity, feelings and the strength to do whatever they have to. Very few men come off as caring or feeling in these films. I wonder why?
Makes me appreciate my current subject, Romaine Brooks will to survive and follow her destiny as an artist.