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Actors: Sang Mi Chu, Ji-won Ye, Hak-sun Kim, Sang-kyung Kim
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Turning Gate |
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TURNING GATE (Saenghwalui balgyeon) is a Korean movie written and directed by Sang-soo Hong in 2001.
Kim Yung-soo has just learned that he hasn't be chosen as the lead actor of his usual director's next movie so, when his old friend Sung-woo invites him to meet him in the city of Chuncheon, he accepts the offer. Yung-soo makes the acquaintance of Myung-suk, a young dancer, who tells him she always wanted to know him. After a few days of wild sex, Yung-soo gets tired of this young girl who harrasses him with her exclusive love.
Yung-soo decides to go to his hometown Pusan but he meets Sun-young, a young girl he falls immediately in love in. So he gets out of the train behind her, follows her and decides to stay a while in this city. He will manage to meet her again and seduce her. But Sun-Young is already married to a professor and we soon understand that she considers Yung-soo as a casual sex partner and won't leave her husband for him. This time, the situation is reversed.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Turning Gate |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- boatload of casual sex without love
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- the Koreas
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- moving train
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- spiritual
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Non-American film?
Yes
Subtitles?
- Yes
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