A music film whose trailer featured 'Arirang.' At the time I was curious about what kind of person 'Ku Hye-sun' was, and how much of a person she was, so I wanted to see this film 'Yosul (Magic),' but it wasn't playing at any nearby theater. Well, in the end, I just watched it on my computer today. It was Ku Hye-sun's first time directing, and as I recall, I'd heard it didn't secure many screens; beyond that, since it wasn't showing in Gwangju, there was no way to see it..
Music filled it from beginning to end, and while I disliked the 'character with talent,' there were some points I liked. What I disliked — how should I put it, this guy is just such a rotten guy??? Of course, since they're 'art-major' people studying music, there is such a thing as innate talent, but beyond that, I was full of the thought that this person doesn't even seem to know basic manners.
This rotten man's name is Jeong-u. Jeong-u has a sense more exceptional than anyone. Well, as most people learn once they hit about twenty, people with 'innate talent' are clearly at a great advantage in art. And with that talent they overwhelm others. Because of that 'talent' that can't be gained no matter how hard you try, Jeong-u is even arrogant. Of course, since he's a 'skilled one,' I inevitably acknowledge it, but still, isn't some degree of decency as a person necessary?
Myeong-jin is far too kind. So kind it's a fault. Because she's one of the few people who can understand Jeong-u's talent and accept his personality. Yet from the moment Myeong-jin starts taking lessons from Jeong-u, she too gradually refines her own skills. She gets better and better, and at some point gives off a strong impression of a 'diligent hard worker.'
Ji-eun (Seo Hyun-jin's role) is, um... how to say it...... seems like a somewhat ambiguous person; for now she's the typical protagonist of a love triangle, and while she has no special talent, she's a person with an embracing nature — but did this person express herself too poorly, or not know her own heart?
It's Ji-eun who attached the meaning of the 'first' and 'second' of the song 'Yosul.' Loving Jeong-u alone, seeing Myeong-jin as just a friend, in this very ambiguous relationship Ji-eun ultimately chooses suicide. Why did she... thinking that the relationship with Myeong-jin too was no longer possible, did she take her own life?
Even when she takes her life, she does it in the practice room she always went to. Strangely, with the music she often sang playing. It seems she wished in her heart that listening to that music she could meet Jeong-u again.
Actually, this work 'Yosul' is close to an independent film. Because it's not as if Ku Hye-sun received support from some large capital company. She purely made the kind of music film she wanted to make. But there were a few parts of this film I couldn't understand.
The scenario needed plausibility. But why on earth, when Ku Hye-sun plays piano, does Seo Hyun-jin come out to sing, and is the man who appears alongside Seo Hyun-jin her father... I'm not sure. Because a bit of ambiguity was woven in.
The scene where Myeong-jin gives Ji-eun a surprise kiss, and the picture of a kissing couple shown simultaneously with that scene, was apt. Moreover, putting the group Party Cats in the middle and playing it as BG was great, but should I say their singing looked a bit unnatural??? If their singing had revealed more of 'their own freedom,' this could have enabled proper 'expression' through 'contrast,' but that wasn't properly achieved.
I don't want to talk, like film critics, about ideology this and the director's color that after watching this film. Because the stories I get from listening to 'Reporter Kim Hye-ri's Film Talk' are plenty fun for me.
She's even better than reporter Lee Dong-jin!! (Reporter Kim Hye-ri, whose moist voice suits late-night radio so well ^^)
Anyway, next time please make a more musically rich film.
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