Film: House of Hummingbird
Starring: Park Ji-hoo Kim Sae-byuk Jung In-gi Lee Seung-yeon Park Soo-yeon
Director: Kim Bora
Rating: ****
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - Writer and Director Kim Bora's standout debut, House of Hummingbird, opens with a short, apparently expendable scene that perfectly epitomizes the film's elevated enthusiastic and mental strains. A female story about growing up that tends to man centric perspectives and authentic occasions, the South Korean dramatization is an inconspicuous and delicate champ.
Fourteen-year-old Eun-hee (Park Ji-hoo) has a pitiful home life that incorporates an unforgiving careless dad (Jung In-gi), an occupied careless mother (Lee Seung-yeon), a more established sibling (Son Sang-yeon) who beats her, and an academically bombing more seasoned sister (Park Soo-yeon). Sliding into misconduct, Eun-hee shoplifts with the closest companion Ji-sook (Park Seo-yoon) and visits karaoke clubs as opposed to examining. She investigates her sexuality with her sweetheart, Ji-wan (Jung Yoon Seo), and, quickly, with a female admirer, Yoo-ri (Seol Hye-in). Eun-hee likes to draw kid's shows, however it isn't until another instructor, Young-ji (Kim Sae-byuk), gets on that she gets consolation about her latent capacity. Kim finishes Eun-hee everyday ripples — a relative's passing, separations, and double-crossings, a medical alarm — and the tremendous catastrophe of the Seongsu Bridge. The last overwhelms the third demonstration.
The introduction directorial exertion from Bora Kim, House of Hummingbird is an incredible first excursion. Cinematographer Gook-hyun's work here will be the main thing the vast majority notice, taking your run-of-the-mill energetic transitioning film and hoisting it with fresh photography as well as doing as such while installing every scene with a feeling of naturalism that feels fitting of this sort of film. A tranquil and unassuming film from various perspectives, a significant part of the film is told through static shots, groupings that see the camera despite the fact that everything, welcoming watchers into a completely fleshed out universe of sexism, sexual orientation debates and sociological conventionalism.
The film is generally striking for the inlets of account dead space around these statements of self-completion and dread, and the manners by which Park focuses on her character's relationship to the world. A repetitive subplot includes the irregularity that structures under one of the young lady's ears and the medical procedure that she fears could leave her face incapacitated, despite the fact that it looks as though she as of now is, the thing that with her dead-peered toward gaze and for the most part slack highlights. There are hopeless, brutal minutes in House of Hummingbird, yet, it's never more serious than when it's centered around Eun-hee's anomie and discovering matches between her deadness and Korea's dehumanizing development.
There is a hidden feeling of history to the film too, with Kim dropping specifically occasions and period patterns as the film requires them: the runaway property advancement of the mid-1990s, the passing of North Korean tyrant Kim Il-sun, and the infamous breakdown of the Seongsu Bridge all element at some point. They give the film a solid feeling of time and spot. A couple of years later or past and the story just couldn't happen as it does. The movie is firmly shot and seen by executive of photography Kang Gook-hyun, with a sensitive score by arranger Matija Strnisa.
Ji-hu Park stars here, and is the show-stealer. Conceived of a turbulent world, Park could play Eun-hee as a genuinely messed up exaggeration, raising each passionate beat into a domain all the more taking after a drama. In any case, what she really does here be play the character in a considerably more quieted way, concentrating on the missable minutes individuals share each day. The looks, the motions, the natural minutes that make an association really stick. She's solicited to convey a lion's share from the film sincerely and narratively, and does as such with incredible achievement, lifting this film into genuinely extraordinary statures.
Final Word - House of Hummingbird is an adroit and influencing transitioning dramatization which delicately snatches you and never let go. The film overflows with sympathy and compassion. It's a rich and confident bit of movie production.
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