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The American movie’Minari’, which tells the story of a family of Korean immigrants, is challenging to win the Golden Globe Awards tomorrow in our time.
It is classified as a foreign language movie because more than 50% of the conversations in the movie are in a foreign language, and is nominated for a foreign language film.
It’s being screened at an American theater, what’s the reaction of the audience?
Correspondent Park Seong-ho covered in Washington.
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On weekend evenings, this is a movie theater in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
It is being screened six times a day after two weeks of opening.
Critics say that the experience of an immigrant family is a special story, but it has the universality of a family drama that anyone can relate to.
So is the reviews of visitors.
Most of the actors are Korean and more than half of the lines are Korean, but I took it as a life story for everyone.
[루이앤]
“I think it’s more than a story of a family of immigrants. It’s a story about a family. It’s about going through hardships and how we get through together. It’s amazing.”
The actors’ compliments for acting were particularly striking, with actor Yoon Yeo-jung, who received more than 20 awards at film festivals in the United States, as the first finger.
[트레이]
“(Yoo-jung’s role) is so funny. It’s fun. It’s really good. It makes you feel all kinds of different emotions.”
The Washington Post, which rated this movie as’very good’, called it “a small but incredibly serious drama” and “a must-see movie.”
American media such as the New York Times have been focusing on the recent, and actually paid attention to the personal history of the second-year-old male protagonist, Stephen Yeon.
This is the intention of the Korean-American director to appeal to the universal sensibility of humans through Korean culture.
[리 아이삭 정/’미나리’ 감독]
“There is something I hoped to do in this film, and I tried to share people’s universal experiences by using Korean culture.”
American entertainment media variety saw the odds of winning an award at the Golden Globe nominated for a Foreign Language Film Award.
However, at the Academy Awards, where the nominations will be finalized next month, Yun Yeo-jung’s Best Supporting Actress Award is the most prominent, and it is predicted that she will be nominated for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay.
This is Seongho Park of MBC News from Washington.
(Video coverage: Sang Sang Lim, Virginia/Video editing: Lee Sang-min)
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