06/21/01
Memento Mori - Remember the Dead
Not only is that a good way to appreciate the living but it’s a fantabulicious Korean film that was shown at the SF Gay/Lesbian film fest tonight at the Roxie. Kicked much fricking ass. Schoolgirls, lesbians, telepathy, suicide, a diary, bitch fights, deer shit, turtles, ghosts, poison, pregnancy, obsession, intolerance, birthdays, etc. Of course, that’s a pretty lame review of it.
Read this instead. (Forgot where i snipped this from, I’m afraid)
Memento Mori (from Latin, translated as “remember that you must die”) revolves around three students at an all-girls’ high school. When Min-ah finds a diary, she gains a glimpse into the relationship between two ostracized students named Hyo-shin and Shi-eun. As the film progresses we witness Hyo-shin’s suicide and descend into a vortex of flashbacks, revelations, and supernatural vengeance. In the original screenplay the relationship between Hyo-shin and Shi-eun contained very strong lesbian overtones; some of this was toned down in the course of production and then several scenes were cut by the ratings board just before release. Nonetheless the nature of their relationship remains clear and central to the film.
This is not your typical horror movie. With its splintered narrative and hardly a drop of blood, the film lingers instead on the dynamics of the classroom and the intensity of its young heroines. The forces that govern the film seem to care very little about the ultimate fate of its characters, preferring instead to ruminate on the past. Eventually we realize that these filmed episodes at the high school do not make up a story; they are more of a memento. And for a film that so completely reinvents its genre, perhaps we can best learn what to expect from it by opening our dictionary:
memento.
1. either of two prayers in the Canon of the Mass, one for the living and one for the dead, beginning” Memento”
2. anything serving as a reminder or warning
3. a souvenir
It is co-directed and written by Kim Tae-yong and Min Kyu-dong, two men who collaborated on several short films and are now making their feature debut. For actors they use three teenage models who give intense, compelling performances in their first cinematic roles: Lee Young-jin, Park Eh-Jin, and Kim Min-sun.
If you can. See it. You will be moved to talk about it. As my scraggy voice will testify.
Explanation of the baby in a leg cast thing. Oliver’s mom was holding him when she slipped on the stairs so he has a hairline fracture on his leg. He’s still standing up & crawling about lots though. He barely cried when it happened and the fracture is not along any growth region of the femur so his development will be just fine. It’s just kind of funny & cute to see a fat baby leg and a fat baby leg cast next to each other. Plus his cast is special cuz it says “I love you” from me. 3DD
Drats!
COW/M left me a phone message today. Damn, I missed it. I must have been high on cough syrup or napping this afternoon. Drat this cough. Drats drats, drats.
Let me autograph it for you, dahling!
Re: The OKAY Book which will be published this next month. They are $20 +$3 Shipping & Handling if you place the order within the next month. $5 overseas shipping afterwards. I plan on purchasing 5 of these and giving them to my dad, brother, and a few close close friends who have believed in me and really invested in me over the last year. If you would like me to order one on your behalf & ship it to you, do let me know. It’s a small run publication (about 2,000 printed in the first run so hey, maybe it’ll become a collectors item) so you won’t find it in your local borders, bdalton or even Amazon I’m afraid. If you let me know, and if you want me to, I’ll write a love note in the cover for you and include a lipstick smooch. Ha ha ha!
Enough already… this is really pathetic. Ok, this dudes’ got too much time on his hands and he by now must surely be annoyed by the fact that he’s had to write to me from *4* different email accounts. Each email account, of course, has a different alias. How exhausting is this huh?
From: john frelong [twregbae@yahoo.com]
please take me off your website, take everything off, my picture, aim discussions, emails, please take everything off, I worked few hours to give you these emails, registering with yahoo new email addresses
please take me off your website, almost 730 people saw my letter to you, please take it off, I don�t want my dad, mom, sister to see it, please take it off please I begging you with my life, please take it off, please take it off, in your “brain dump” category, 3/31/01, or you can search “eric walter michael jackson superbowl 1994″ and it came up, please take it off, thats all I want, please take all my information off, I am not overreacting
eric walter
Sheesh. Quit already, would you? Go hide under a rock again or something. I will *not* edit myself. You should have known better than to harass a stranger like that. Bejebus.
Oh, and to add to that, on ii stix I answer Mental Yum Yum Questions. I suppose it’s kind of like Ann Landers on a crack pipe. Anyways, *Bob* oh yeah, that one, Bob Kim, writes in with a question on how to lose weight. My immediate gut reaction is to not answer the question at all cuz I’m pissed. My follow-up reaction was to scribble the following.
Gee Bob,
You could lose 2 ounces really quickly if you cut off your dick.
What do you think folks? Am I giving Bob too much credit or what?
Harumph.
Back to the Nyquil with me.
Min Jung
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