Peppermint Candy [DVD]

It's one Korean guy's life, told backwards. This turned out to be a very good idea, because this man is not what he was when he was a boy. The pieces of his life that are shown permit the filmmaker to touch the high points and the very low points of South Korean history of the last 40 years. There was apparently a lot of conflict in South Korea during that period (long after the Korean war had ended), and this movie conveys what it all most have felt like just by concentrating on the experience of this one man, and the changes that occurred in his personality as he grew up and passed middle age.This is not a fun movie, but I think it's a realistic one. The availability of movie like this elswhere than in the USA is what has made me eager to see foreign movies ever since I first saw some from Europe 50 years ago.

You will have to wait to the end to understand why he is the jerk he is, but by that time you'll dislike him so much you really want care. Zero pity for this jerk.

Director Lee Chang-dong wrote the scripts for the movies he directed. Before directing his first movie (Green Fish), he was a script writer and a full-time high school teacher teaching Korean. Like all other movies he wrote and directed, this movie Peppermint Candy was not made just for entertainment or commercial success though all of them were moderately successful. There is no action or excitement. This is a movie intended for a small audience. This movie focuses on a young man (a factory worker) and follows his traumatic experience in military, and shows his career as a cop during the dark era of South Korea under military dictatorship. and then a co-owner of a furniture store before killing himself, ALL IN REVERSE TIME SEQUENCE.I strongly recommend his other movies as well, SECRET SUNSHINE, POETRY, OASIS to name a few.

I returned it, feels like a home made burnt copy DVD. It's about the Digital Media Rights / Asian-Crush DVD.

If you've read the book Rant, it's along the same style of format. You need to have a decent memory to piece together what links an old character with their modern counterpart, etc. It's definitely a great film, very realistic fight scenes. Taking off one star for one actual animal abuse scene.

A truly clever and magnificently acted story of a man who commits suicide. Unsentimental and honest analysis of a promising life destroyed by unfortunate chance events. Isn't that what REAL LIFE is all about in the end?

This movie is about a story of a man who gradually lost his innocence during the democratization movement at Korea; it will let you learn how diplomacy in 1980s Korea destroyed humanity. You may need some understanding on Korean contemporary history to fully understand what is going on, but it is not entirely necessary. The subtitle is mostly OK, but contains some mistakes.

It made me think what is like to be getting older in Korean society.I do not grasp the core message of this movie. It is really hard to sit through.The movie is like a phrase the moment you died you can see your life like a film scene -by -scene,