Plant the most common special dreams… Movie’Buttercup’

The story of a Korean family chasing the American Dream in the 1980s

Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize, 68 crowns… A leading academy candidate

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Han Mi-hee = It is a definite American film produced by an American film company and shot by an American actor and staff on American soil, but the interest of the Korean and international film industry focused on the movie’Buttercup’ is the temperature. Is different.

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To Korean audiences, the actors Yoon Yeo-jung and Han Ye-ri, who are familiar in domestic dramas and movies, appear, and the story of a Korean family who moved to the United States is well received in the American film industry and is inevitably attracting attention.

In the film industry in the United States and around the world, director Bong Joon-ho’s enthusiastic interest in Korean content aroused as a’parasite’ last year and Hollywood, which was criticized as a white color, played a part in its efforts to embrace diversity.

However, Golden Globe, one of the major awards in the United States, was nominated for a Foreign Language Film Award for having more Korean ambassadors than English, and in response, interest and favorable comments about the film have grown.

The film, which is expected to be nominated for major categories such as Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, at the Academy Awards scheduled in April, was first released in Korea as an invitation to the Busan International Film Festival last fall, and will be officially released next month.

Movie'Buttercup'
Movie’Buttercup’

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Jacob (Stephen Yeon), who worked as a chick taster in California, leads his family to the countryside of southern Arkansas for a dream of cultivating fertile land.

His wife, Monica (Han Ye-ri), sees a trailer house lying in the open field, and her daughter Ann (Noel Kate Jo) and her son David (Alan Kim) have a bad heart. Anxiety rises on the night of a tornado, leading to a big fight. .

To help the couple, Monica’s mother, Sun-ja (Yoon Yeo-jung), comes to the trailer house with red pepper powder, anchovy, and herbal medicine wrapped in a barribari.

Sunja sits down on his grandchildren and teaches Hwatu, and David, who shares a room with his grandmother, says, “Grandmother doesn’t know how to bake cookies, and smells,” and “Grandmother is not like a real grandmother.”

The film about an immigrant family who pursued the American Dream in the 1980s is an autobiographical story of director Lee Isaac Jung (Korean name Jeong Isaac) and his family. Are getting.

The story of a family who relies on each other and pursues hope despite conflict in an unfamiliar environment is not limited to immigrants, but it is worth reaching deeply to most of the family members.

Movie'Buttercup'
Movie’Buttercup’

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Although David was a childhood director, the father-in-law said that he projected more of himself on Jacob, and he was inspired by his own experience and real family, but emphasized that the character in the movie is a new character recreated by actors. did.

The film is a genuine story based on the director’s experience, the beautiful scenery captured with natural light, and the music that melts in the hearts of the audience, while the unexpected, dramatic twist is added, creating a feeling of tension comparable to that of a genre movie. do.

If the Korean vegetables that Jacob planted and cultivated in a group of land alternately bring hope and despair to this family, the water parsley planted in the sunny waterside of the forest by hand by an uneducated grandmother in the eyes of David, grows with tough vitality and adaptability. It keeps the family tight.

The meaning of the title was put in the line in Sunja’s line, “Buttercup is just grown anywhere, so rich or poor can eat it. It’s a medicine. It’s Wonderful.” At the end of the film, the director said, “All our grandmothers ‘(TO OUR ALL GRANDMA)’ left a tribute.

Actor Yoon Yeo-jung, who plays the grandmother Sun-ja, who has a big and deep love, even though he speaks nasty words without hesitation, is raising expectations for the first Korean actor to win the Academy Awards, winning 23 Best Supporting Actress Awards in the United States.

Viewers 12 years and older. Released on March 3.

Movie'Buttercup'
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