Planet of Snail
Verzio9 FF Submission. Duration: 01:27:00 Young-Chan has been deaf and blind since childhood. As he puts it, "In the beginning there was darkness and silence." Young-Chan had no idea how to participate in the world until he meets Soon-Ho, who also has a physical handicap. He marries her an...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Korean |
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Min-Chul, Kim ; Gary, Kam
2011
South Korea |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:e9edf6de-d44b-4778-bb48-e69690fcb041 |
| Summary: | Verzio9 FF Submission.
Duration: 01:27:00
Young-Chan has been deaf and blind since childhood. As he puts it, "In the beginning there was darkness and silence." Young-Chan had no idea how to participate in the world until he meets Soon-Ho, who also has a physical handicap. He marries her and learns to communicate with the outside world through her. By softly tapping each other's finger, they can understand one another; sometimes it is as if they are tenderly playing a piano. This documentary follows the couple in the same gentle tempo as Young-Chan moves through his life. We see them replacing a light bulb together, receiving friends, working on a theater piece, reading a book, and gliding on a sleigh down a mountain. These everyday scenes are accompanied by a poetic voice-over by Young-Chan, in which he reflects on his existence without sight and hearing. He feels like an astronaut, but that doesn't mean he is without a sense of beauty in the world. This becomes palpable when Young-Chan touches the bark of a tree, runs his hand through sand, or brushes raindrops on a window pane with his fingertips. A unique testimony of love and the will to overcome obstacles. |
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| Published: | 2011 |