Secret Daylight (Korean: 밀양; Hanja: 密陽; RR: Miryang) is a 2007 South Korean show movie coordinated by Lee Chang-dong.[2] The screenplay in view of the short fiction “The Tale of a Bug” by Lee Cheong-jun that spotlights on a lady as she grapples with the inquiries of misery, frenzy and confidence. The Korean title Miryang (or Milyang) is named after the city that filled in as the film’s setting and shooting area, of which “Secret Daylight” is the exacting translation.[3] For her presentation in the film, Jeon Do-yeon won the Prix d’interprétation féminine (Best Entertainer) at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5][6] The film likewise won the honor for Best Film at the Asian Film Grants and at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.[7] The film sold 1,710,364 tickets cross country in South Korea alone
Plot[edit]
After the passing of her better half from a car crash, Lee Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) and her lone kid Jun move to Miryang, South Gyeongsang Territory, her significant other’s old neighborhood, to begin life once more. While entering Miryang, Shin-ae’s vehicle stalls. The nearby technician in Miryang Kim Jong-chan (Tune Kang-ho) fixes her vehicle and helps Shin-ae as she opens her piano school and endeavors to buy land to construct a house on. Jong-chan claims he is simply attempting to be a Decent Samaritan.
One evening, Shin-ae meets a center school young lady (alluded to as “the young lady” from now onwards), whose father is Jun’s childcare educator. Right external her home, Shin-ae is called by a drug specialist who tells her that the answer for her concerns is faith in God. Shin-ae is suspicious, yet by the by takes the drug specialist’s sacred writing. At home, Shin-ae and Jun participate in a trick where Shin-ae professes to not be able to track down Jun.
Shin-ae’s sibling visits from Seoul, asking why she has gotten back to Miryang thinking about that her significant other undermined her. Shin-ae denies this, yet at the same time loathes her late spouse for vague reasons. Prior to leaving, Shin-ae’s sibling tells Jong-chan to quit chasing after Shin-ae.
One evening, Shin-ae gets back late in the wake of celebrating to find that Jun is missing. She gets a call (suggested to be from Jun’s hijacker) and draws all of the cash from her ledger to pay as payoff. Shocked at the pathetic measure of cash she paid, Shin-ae uncovers that her case to purchasing land was completely false to seem rich; she truly had no more cash.
Getting back, Shin-ae finds the young lady looking into her home; the last option won’t make sense of why and getaways. Afterward, cops show up to take her to a repository, where Jun was suffocated. The criminal is quickly caught, yet Shin-ae doesn’t appear to be vindictive and cries no tears at Jun’s memorial service.
Feeling unwell one day, Shin-ae visits the drug specialist, who persuades her to join their confidence, despite the fact that Shin-ae doesn’t have the foggiest idea why God would allow an honest youngster to like Jun kick the bucket. Chased after by Jong-chan, Shin-ae before long turns into a devotee and cases to find tracked down inward harmony; even Jong-chan begins going to chapel.
At home one day, Shin-ae hears commotions in her restroom and opens the entryway, shouting out Jun’s name, yet the washroom client is a young man from Jun’s childcare. Dropping off the other childcare youngsters, Shin-ae witnesses the young lady being tormented yet doesn’t mediate.
Her congregation companions set up her a birthday celebration, during which she expresses that she will visit the criminal, presently in jail, to pardon him. Jong-chan fails to really see the reason why Shin-ae requirements to visit him to excuse him, however in any case goes with her. Shockingly, the criminal (ending up being Jun’s childcare instructor) uncovers that he found God also and that God has vindicated him of his wrongdoings. Shin-ae fails to really see how God can exculpate him of his transgressions before she has excused him and felt genuine harmony.
At some point, Shin-ae takes a Compact disc of a tune called “Lies” from a store and shoots it on an amplifier where a gathering has assembled to say thanks to God. Soon thereafter, she gets a call, which she claims to Jong-chan to have been from the ruffian; he excuses the thought yet advises her to quiet down and orchestrates a supper date for the following day. Be that as it may, Shin-ae strolls into the drug store and lures the drug specialist’s significant other, however he can’t perform, and she misses the date. Jong-chan rejects her proposition for sex and offers to drive her home, yet she truly declines. Returning, she passes by a vigil held for her by the drug specialist couple; it is intruded on when a stone is heaved at a window. At home, Shin-ae cuts her wrists.
On the day she is released from the clinic, Jong-chan takes her to a salon, where the young lady presently works, to do her hair. She uncovers that she went into adolescent detainment for falling in with some unacceptable group and quit school. In her cut, Shin-ae leaves the salon. At home, she starts trimming her own hair. Jong-chan shows up, proposing to hold up a mirror for her.
Cast[edit]
• Jeon Do-yeon as Lee Shin-ae
• Tune Kang-ho as Kim Jong-chan
• Jo Youthful jin as Park Do-seop
• Kim Youthful jae as Lee Min-ki
• Tune Mi-edge as Jeong-ah
• Seon Jeong-yeop
• Kim Mi-hyang
• Lee Yoon-hee
• Kim Jong-su
• Kim Mi-kyung
• Lee Joong-alright as Trust House representative
• Yeom Hye-ran
Basic response[edit]
The film was generally acclaimed on the celebration circuit, with specific and widespread commendation for Do-yeon’s exhibition. It got different honors, including a few Best Film wins and various Best Entertainer grants for Do-yeon.[9][10] It was designated for the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Celebration, yet didn’t win.
The film was comparably acclaimed in its American delivery in 2010. On Bad Tomatoes, the film has an endorsement rating of 94% in light of 31 surveys, with a typical rating of 7.68/10. The site’s basic agreement peruses, “Plumbing the profundities of misfortune without surrendering to drama, Chang-dong Lee’s Mysterious Daylight is an exhausting, yet moving, piece of delightfully acted cinema.”[11] With 6 surveys, it scored 84 on Metacritic, designating “general acclaim.”[12] A.O. Scott of the New York Timescalled the film “clear, exquisite and melodious. The experience of watching [Chang-dong’s] films isn’t lovely all of the time… however his tranquil and demanding sympathy injects even the most incredibly awful minutes with an implication of grace.”[13] Noel Murray, composing for the A.V. Club, referred to it as “a regularly gorgeous movie with a chilly, dull heart” and commended Do-yeon’s “strong performance.”[14] Michael Atkinson of the Town Voice composed that “the red-looked at Jeon, handling a Best Entertainer at Cannes in 2007 and extraordinary too in The Housemaid, goes to damnation and back.”[15] In 2019, chief Hirokazu Kore-eda named it as the best film of the 21st 100 years, lauding Lee’s “profound understanding into human nature”.[16] In 2020, The Gatekeeper positioned it number 7 among the works of art of current South Korean Cinema.[17]
Home video release[edit]
On August 23, 2011, The Rule Assortment delivered the film on DVD and Blu-beam, the two of which incorporates another video interview with Lee Chang-dong, an in the background featurette, the US dramatic trailer, and a booklet highlighting another film exposition by film pundit Dennis Lim.
