Reporter Kim Hye-ri from ‘Cine 21’ faintly unfolds 30 Korean Movies as indicated by the title of this book, which is a film essay containing the traces of her having stayed up all night with the movies and professed her affection for the cinema for a long time. While watching movies from different times, starting with “Secret Sunshine” and moving back to the 1961 film, “A Coachman”, Kim Hye-ri set her eyes on 30 Korean movies. Each scene enlivened by her fine sensibility seems to pop out of each respective one of the 30 films. It can be safely said that the book is a poetic motion picture composed of 30 scenes as well as an ‘image quilt woven from writings’ that contain her sincere heart. The author expresses her sympathy with the theme of a movie using a short sentence. She also picks out a scene in a movie clearly, or sometimes sharply, using a single word.

close