Please, can somebody help me with this? At the very beginning of the movie we can see Su-min with some other guy on a trip. Is that Jae-min or not? I think it is a reasonable possibility but I couldn't recognize his face since I have this low-quality copy of this movie.
Thank's in advance.
English is not my first language so I apologize for any possible mistakes.
It most probably isn't Jae-Min. At least, the guy looked nothing like him. I think it was Sumin's ex-boyfriend, or just a fellow orphan from the orphanage.
shareIt most probably isn't Jae-Min. At least, the guy looked nothing like him. I think it was Sumin's ex-boyfriend, or just a fellow orphan from the orphanage.
shareThat's the guy that came to work inthe same bar and got himself killed in the car accident.
shareNo he's not. Why would they use sign language to talk to each other then? It's just a boy who used to be at the same orphanage.
shareFeydora is correct. The deaf boy (from the orphanage) with Su-Min at the beginning of the film is not the same character as the young, naive man (Ga-Ram) whom Su-Min later befriends at the host bar. (He is, however, played by the same actor.) There's actually a point midway through the film when Ga-Ram asks Su-Min why he's being so kind to him, and the latter replies, "Because you remind me of someone I used to know."
The fact that the unnamed deaf boy, Su-Min, and Ga-Ram are all orphans is not a coincidence. In the course of researching the story, Leesong Hee-il, who wrote and directed the film, discovered that many of the young men who work in Korean host bars are orphans.
There's some excellent information on this film by an anonymous writer in the comments section at the end of this article:
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/blog/2007/02/berlinale-2-welcome-to-korea.php
Yeah I got that from the movie too. He was someone Su-Min was with before he left the orphanage, and Ga-Ram reminded him of that boy.
The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.