Are there two cameras in the film? In the 1984 segment, when Sunim leaves by train to return to Seoul, Youngho gives her back the camera that she gave him in the cafe. So I assumed the camera that he sells in 1999 is a different one that he had owned since 1979 when he had ambitions to become a photographer (the storekeeper mentions that there isn't any demand for 20-year old cameras). Is that correct?
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It seems to be the same camera, but what I actually found interesting was the film that was in the camera. The shopkeeper makes a point of giving him the roll of film which was either completely used or was just sitting in the camera unloaded as Sunim would have had to advance it at least to the first frame to properly load it. Youngho later tearfully rips the roll of film open, destroying it. If the film was just sitting in the camera, this would be him denying and mourning the loss of his youthful dream. More intriguingly, if the film was completely used (as it appeared to me), this means Sunim took pictures for him throughout her life and he destroys them without even having them developed as he couldn't bear to look at them.
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