[리뷰] ‘Kill Me’, the power of the actors, the cameras and the direction, the excitement on stage is intact

Hyun-jae (Ahn Seung-gyun), who has a congenital physical disability, needs his father’s help in everything. He seems like his father’s child, but even now, in his mid-teens, he develops sexual desire like any other teenager. It’s a very natural sign of growing up, but even now, who sees himself as a monster, and his father, Min-seok (Jang Hyun-seong), still washes his son with a hand in the bathtub, he worries about how to accept this change. Min-seok was not ready to accept the current desire to leave his father’s arms and become independent with his peers. The conflict between father and son reaches an inflection point when it is revealed that something is wrong with Min-seok’s body. The film investigates the relationship between the characters through the obstacles that father and son experience at the same time. As Min-seok finds himself in a situation where he needs his son’s help, Hyun-jae, Min-seok and Hyun-jae go beyond the father-son relationship and reach a true understanding of his each other

A film that deals with serious issues of the needs of people with disabilities who have entered a period of growth to euthanasia. plays filmed Drama released in 2014 by Canadian playwright Brad Fraser, it has been well received in Korea and has been performed three times since 2016. Perhaps the difficulties present and Minseok in the film are unfamiliar and uncomfortable because that it is a landscape that no one has ever come across, but when you think about the news about disability or euthanasia in society, it is a story that can reach more audiences now than when the play was first shown. perform in 2019 Actor Jang Hyun-seong, who played his father in the third season, plays his father Min-seok in the film.

As in the theatrical stage, in the film, the living room and the bathtub are used as important backgrounds. The dialogue between the actors based on the play is also included in a long shot. Unlike the audience who sit in the audience and look around the stage, the film has a limited view of the frame, so the camera follows the person’s movement closely instead of the audience’s gaze . Thanks to the walking and the detailed directing of the hand-held camera to capture the frequency of the emotions in the space, the scene was transferred to the screen without monotony. The hot acting of Jang Hyun-sung and Ahn Seung-gyun sets a solid center for the drama, and Min-seok’s younger brother Ha-yeong (Kim Gook-hee) and Min-seok’s lover Su-won (Lee Il- hwa) develops richly. the texture of joy and sadness that exists even in the midst of pain. Ki-cheol (Yang Hee-jun), who is currently a support worker and suffers from mental retardation, has also completed a unique character with a free-spirited look that makes him anxious. The actors contributed greatly to the fact that the live warmth did not cool down throughout the play. It was praised for winning the Best Feature Film award at world film festivals such as the Sydney World Film Festival, the Munich Film Awards, and the Amsterdam Independent Film Festival.

“Now, it’s the same as normal kids, so why is it so awkward?”

His father’s ambassador, Min-seok, has to deal with the current growth. The word ‘normal’ for those like this comes from an unfamiliar and special standard.

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(2021)

It is also a story that tells us that every child that is born is a perfect being. It is the story of a child growing up who has never been separated from a family with a disability, and it is based on a true story. Real deaf actors played the characters of a deaf and distracting family.