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Session 39: Korean (Seoul) film: 3-Iron (screening then general discussion), Third of three sessions
Topics for this session
❖ Recent cinema from Korea (Seoul): 3-Iron, first session of three
Overall, persistent topics for this film:
- What is the relationship between "society" and this couple?
- Comparative issue—reconstructing "worlds": Of the immediate cultural worlds of the films we have seen, which is portrayed as the most traditionally Confucian. Note that is is possible for a film to reference more than one "world".
- Role of Buddhism in this film.
- Comparative issue: Dreams and dreaminess in 3-Iron compared to Genji, Story of the Stone.
- Comparative issue: Dreams and dreaminess in 3-Iron compared to 2046, Dolls.
- Comparative issue: the place of women (romantically) in all of our films.
- Role/place of the woman in this and other films we have screened, including: Is this film misogynistic?
Possible topics for this session:
- Linearity's effect on romantic narrative.
- Last line of the film + Buddhism + dreams/dreaminess: "It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream."
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✓ 3-Iron: Third session questions (scene summaries optional) on the module for this day.
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