[100 Challenge] Song E Yoon_30

I'm walking alone in the middle of a quiet night.

I like movies directed by Lee Chang-dong. I love Green Fish from 1997, Secret Sunshine by 2007, and Poetry from 2010.

His movie is silent, but at the end, all emotions crash. It was a very strong hit for me.

In the poetry's first scene, a female student's body floats down to the countryside stream, and children who play innocently by the stream find it. The girl was the victim of mass rape by male students of her same age. Mija, the grandmother of one of the boys, is the film's main character. The main character, Mija, takes care of her grandson instead of her daughter, who is out of town to earn money. The grandmother took good care of the grandson but eventually caused problems. Grandmother Mija wants to write poetry, so she enrolls in an academy to learn how to write poetry.

Meanwhile, she finds out that she has dementia. She sold sex to the patient while earning money by working as a caregiver for an older man with a stroke. It was to make a settlement for the wrongdoings committed by her grandson. Throughout the whole process, she continues to write poems with clumsy skills. Finally, she completes the poem and dedicates it to a young female student who died unfairly.

<Anes’s Song>

How is that place

How quiet is it

It's still sunset in the evening

Can you hear the birds singing in the woods

a letter that I couldn't bring myself to mail

Can you get it

Can you deliver the confession that you didn't make

Will the roses wilt as time goes by

It's time to say goodbye

Like the wind that stays and goes, like a shadow

Even the promise that didn't come, the love that was a secret

A grass that kisses my sad ankles

Even the little footprints that followed me

time to say goodbye

When darkness comes, will the candle light up again

I pray

I hope no one sheds tears

How much I loved you so much

I hope you'll understand

That long wait in the middle of summer

an old alley like a father's face

Even the lonely wild chrysanthemum that is shy

How much I loved you

At your little song

How much my heart skipped a beat

I bless you

Before crossing the Black River

With the last breath of my soul

I'm starting to dream

I wake up one sunny morning

with fluffy eyes

I hope I can meet you at your bedside