There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
Interpretation
Korean films reflect the intense emotions and societal extremes present in Korean culture.
Bong Joon-Ho suggests that the emotional depth found in Korean cinema is a direct result of the cultural and social extremes experienced within Korean society. This intertwining of art and life illustrates how filmmakers draw inspiration from their surroundings, allowing audiences to connect with the raw human experiences portrayed on screen.
In practice
In a film studies class while discussing the impact of culture on cinema.
I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?
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