Beolsae

I have always liked arthouse or melodramatic movies. The cinematography of this film is beautiful. A lot of people did find it boring due to the film's duration being too long and i might agree with it at some point. But that doesn't change the fact that i actually enjoyed watching the movie. The plot was amazing and all the actors were wonderful at their job. One reason why this movie is so special to me is because at some point throughout the movie, i could connect with the main character, Eun-hee.

I would definitely recommend watching this film. All you require is a little bit of patience.

The House of Hummingbird (Beolase) was creating unique mood that I couldn't see at other movies. The movie begins with the setting of the main character and explains the relationships between them. The most impressive thing was the events were based on real events and life of director. I believe this is why Beolsae could transfer message to audience and impact audience. I want to point out that Bolase's cinematography is amazing. Every transition, angle, lighting represents the events, emotion, and more. But Beolsae had some of awkwardness in some of shots. Some of shots were dragging a little and I thought some of shots should be edit more shorter. But overall, it was good movie with message.

This reminds me of me when I was young, always looking for love through the eyes of someone else, and thinking I wasn't worth anything.

I had lots of time to wonder and be around different people in my lifetime and this movie even though it's Asian culture, and I actually remember when the bridge collapsed cuz I kept up on Asian culture back then even in 1990s, that was such a tragic thing to happen, that in their president had died.

There are times when this movie was kind of boring because it doesn't explain a lot of stuff it just follows this family around I know the main character is the young girl there's lots of facial expressions and I'm noticing that more when I watch pieces like this but there need is be some kind of information for us people who I mean I get facial expressions but there's missing pieces is what I'm saying I still love the movie because of the point it was trying to make without me spoiling anything it was really good I washed it till the end it was really long though that's the other thing it needed to be a little shorter and I didn't quite like the ending That's just my opinion though it's still was a really good movie, well written.

Accurately represented conflicts between a Korean school girl and ordinary family in Gangnam district in 1994.

Korean family living in the same format of house as others. The purpose of children's life is captivated in school and cram school to be enrolled in the top university. Not much conversation between parents and children apart from school record. Therefore life in children is no fun at all.

Narrated well about how the schoolgirl tried to find the purpose of life and small fun things from the boring but unfair life.

House of Hummingbird is a movie I stumbled across one night and I just sat there mesmerized throughout its 2hr 18min run time. It has such a simple plotline (if you can even call it that), yet it engages you with character study, family drama, adolescent insecurities, loneliness and even grief.

It's a coming of age story about a teenage girl named Eunhee who is abused by her brother and shown little affection by her parents. She doesn't seem to have much interest in school as she sleeps in class without care. The closest people in her life are her best friend, a boyfriend and her teacher. The troubles and delights she shares with them are handled with such finesse that no incident ever seems forced or melodramatic.

Her life at home is filled with dysfunction. From her brother beating her for any form of disrespect to her parents fighting loudly right in front of their children. The way she reacts to events like this are not overt cries for attention, but are shown in her general personality or her simple day to day actions towards other people in her life. She deals with romance in the idealistic and sometimes naive views of the 14 year old girl she is. Whether she's getting in fights with her friend or dealing with being left by someone she's come to trust, she always reacts in such a realistic and sympathetic and human way.

A heartfelt drama taking place in the mid 90s, House of Hummingbird intertwines elements from its story to real life events that were big in South Korea like the death of Kim Il Sung and the Seongsu bridge collapse. This makes the characters feel even more real than the phenomenal acting and writing already does. It stands tall against other great coming of age works like Fish Tank, The Way Way Back, and Eight Grade. It's a shame that even though this South Korean movie also came out in 2019, Parasite recieved far more acclaim. I liked Parasite to an extent, but this film is much more worth your time.