[English]
[Music]
[Graduation Project]
Come in
Did you call the director?
Uh, democracy. Sit down
Yes
Oh, Minju
There. Sit there
Yes
Minjoo
Why aren't you the only one submitting a short screenplay for graduation?
Ah... scenario?
I'm writing
Hey...
It's been a month since you asked me to submit
Can you enter a short story this year?
By when can I send it to you?
First of all, synopsis for this week.
Until next week, my scenario is
No more. okay?
Yes, I understand
What story are you going to write this time?
Hmm...
This time, I can show my colors well.
I'm thinking of it as a work that exists
Minjoo
Now... will it be popular at film festivals or in the market?
How about doing some genre movies?
I thought about that too...
Um...
Minjoo
Yes, director...
I told the professors that you were in our department.
Did you know that you were accepted
because I insisted so hard that you be admitted? I don't know?
I know...
I'm your number one fan
More than any other professor
I had really high expectations from you
so this is the work you want to do
You let me do everything
right?
Yes...
But what are the results even though I am a senior?
Are you the only one missing something?
All other motives
I went to a film festival and won an award.
Even though I want to take care of you more,
Ugh...
[Sigh]
Minjoo
Yes. Director
Now stop doing the art you want to do
and do it after you become famous
Do you understand me?
Yep
Yes. Do your best this time
If you graduate without an award, investors will
There is no reason to recommend you
If the directing major graduates without an award,
You know it’s hard to get a job, right?
I know. Director
Yes. Let's do our best because it's the last
Let's go
Director
What I love...
...you know?
Uh...
Hey, even if it's just empty words, thank you
You know those aren't empty words
Let's have a drink today
We'll also consult on my work
I have an appointment today, what should I do?
Hey, if your movie goes well, let’s eat. hmm?
Okay?
Yes
Huh?
Minju unnie!
Jiho
Unni. Why are you like this today?
Did you dress nicely?
You usually dress casually
Oh, are you meeting your boyfriend?
No
What's going on here?
I came here to get advice from the professor.
Did you come to the professor for advice too?
Uh. I'm done with the consultation
What are you consulting on?
I have a short story that won an award last year.
I decided to make it into a feature.
They introduced me to the production company.
[Laughs]
Yes...
It's late, but congratulations on winning the award.
Thank you. Sister
you are so amazing too
When the actor did all the directing and worked on
A~ Sister
It's thanks to your strict teaching.
I cried a lot because of you at that time.
Did you know that you were my idol?
I really wanted to be like my sister back then
[ snort ]
Did you?
You didn't know?
Thank you for teaching me a lot. Sister
Ah~ I'll go in. Sister
Yes, you are good at counseling
Yes. See you again. Sister
Ha...
Mr...
Tsk...
Ah...
Uh...! Uh.. Jiho...!
Wow, are you here?
Hey, when did you come?
Come in, come in, come in
I’m a professor~
Sit there, sit there
Hee hee
Hee hee
How have you been?
Ugh. Uh...
Oh, Jiho is signing with an agency this time?
Yes. Thank you for introducing me. Professor
Oh... then, should we have a drink after class today to celebrate
?
Alcohol? I love it!
This time, I will live!
Just say anything! Professor
[ Laughs ]
Hey, hey, don't talk empty words.
[Laughs]
That's not an empty word
I can buy the professor anything
Uh, uh...
Now, wait a minute
Whoa...
[Sigh]
[Beep sound]
(Uh, Minjoo!) Uh, Minyoung
(How are you? What happened?)
I think I should drink today...
Don't you want to drink?
(Alcohol? Oh, that's good!)
You know the traveler on Earth later at 7 o'clock, right?
( Yes, I know. )
See you there
( Eing, okay )
Yes
[ Sigh ]
Ta-da~
Hey, Minjoo. Stop drinking. What's going on?
Ha...
Nothing's going on
Are you a little weird today?
Is it because of the man?
Hey... Where am I with the man?
I should focus on the movie
It's because of the poor work
What should I do next?
Ah... I don't know
There are a lot of things I wrote, but they're all ordinary
A bit different from others
You have to make something like that
Ah, it's all ordinary
Hey, just do what's most like you
Hey
Ha, fuck, really
You think I haven't done what's true to me so far?
When I graduate this year
It could be my last work.
If I graduate like this, I won't be able to get a job.
Well...
Do I really have to win an award?
Oh my, Tayaji
All directors who debuted
You won an award at a film festival.
You must win an award this year...
If it's for a film festival, it's capitalism, capitalism
Parasites, class conflict, and the main character who falls because of money.
It's official
Siwoo. I don't have much money anymore
I have to film on a low budget
Hey, when it comes to low budget art films, it's Hong Sang-soo. Hong Sang-soo
The hypocrisy of intellectuals at drinking parties. No face. uh?
Hey, don’t we feel like we’re in a Hong Sang-soo movie right now?
Hey, that's right.
Should I try it? hmm?
Aww...
Min-joo
You look so pretty today
I'm serious
I love you
What... you idiot...
Ah...
I'm so sick of doing it on our own
What should I write about the screenplay for the film festival...
How about Auschwitz?
By criticizing Nazis.
Kill Hitler by putting him in a gas chamber.
Siwoo. Among Asians
Make an Auschwitz movie?
Are you serious?
Ah, what do you think?
It's an era where black people also play The Little Mermaid and Juliet, huh?
Asians can go to Auschwitz too
Oh my Siwoo
I hope you get a good job at Disney
Ah, why. Is it weird?
They really liked Outschwitz at the film festival.
Hey,
I find that really funny too.
When you go to Auschwitz, you see the victims' shoes.
They piled it up like a mountain, so should you be shocked?
Hey, but think about it
Would the number of victims at Auschwitz be too high?
Could it be that the number of people who died because the Jews started a war was greater?
Ah...
Because they don't have shoes.
Don't you count?
Actually, the world is full of money and power.
Don't count
Democracy
Never say something like that outside
What are you saying?
Can't you criticize Jews
?
In the movie version, then
Your career and you will both disappear
Really?
Ah... then that won't work
Then where should I
make an Asian Auschwitz movie?
Would you like to be invited to the academy?
Hey, Minjoo
Add a homosexual setting too
Hey, Aushu, a homosexual Asian...
Ah... I'm going crazy. Really
Don't you get sick of gay movies now?
If you go to a film festival, everyone is homosexual. Very
PC is the trend.
If you want to receive investment and receive an award, you should go for PC
Hey, hasn't PC gone out of fashion? uh?
Is everything on your PC ruined these days?
Still, PCs are the trend at film festivals
Min Young-ah
What kind of PC is popular these days?
Oh, looking at the recent awards
It's definitely feminism
Feminism...
Women taking on roles that only men used to play?
Yes
I've been thinking about this lately.
Just looking at the cancer, it's not a woman.
I only see you as a woman who wants to be a man
Then...
What do you think of as feminism?
Director
What's going on?
[ Sigh ]
I...
It's not that women try to become men.
Men become proud because of women.
Falling and shaking
It seemed more like feminism to fail
So...
It's not the woman going towards the man
The man is being pulled towards the woman
Huh?
Does this sound like something you heard in class?
Freud?
Umm~
Lacan. Lacan
For example?
So, in terms of class, the man who was at the top of the pyramid
is brought down to the bottom because of the woman.
...
Just like in <Chastity> and <Decision to Break Up> and <Romeo and Juliet>
I like that
In the sense that men and women become equal in the end.
Feminism is right
That's right
I don't know if they'll call it a women's film because it's downward equality
But I've already made a women's film once
In high school
Really? How was it?
It's just that half of the world becomes enemies
I only like the other half.
The director...
No, I only like the professor.
Do you have any other PCs?
Minjoo
If you film a queer person with a pretty and handsome actor,
It works 100%. hmm?
Queer is good...
Being queer isn't bad either.
But isn't competition a bit fierce for queers now?
Well...
How about guessing the ages?
How old are you?
Why, you recently won an elementary school gay film award.
What?
Did the director ask a child to act gay?
Hey, isn't that guy crazy?
Well, they said there was no problem because they trained in advance.
Plus, he is a very famous director and even received a big award.
No one thinks it's a problem
You took a pretty picture of it
That's right
Honestly, you took a really pretty picture
If you're pretty and cute, everything should be forgiven
Yeah, just like me
Hmm? / huh?
Hey, our Minyoung
Has it already been time to take the medicine?
Uh,
It's been a while
Minyoung
You know that I really like queer people, right?
Yes. You know
But to win a prize, you have to give it to pretty children
Ask him to act queer...?
[ Laughs ]
It's too radical for me.
They say you have to be radical to be accepted at film festivals. uh?
Even more radically
How about a queer story with a kindergarten student as the main character?
Ah...
Lady, Tona
Hey, isn't that too radical?
Queers have been around since they were in kindergarten.
They say they recognize themselves as queer
Eight / Ah!
Ah, why, is it strange?
Ah, why did you say such a strange thing today?
Have you heard the evil spirit?
That's not what you're directing.
It's not like you just spit it out like that.
They say you should get an award.
You have to do something that others don't do to get an award.
Ugh...
But you still want to get an award... Hey
That's not true
Ah!
Oh, that's a bit like that.
How about this instead?
It's completely provocative
Like a French art film
How about a movie where the actress takes off her clothes?
(Chu)
Did you want to film something like that?
No... I like film festivals like that, so what should I do? uh?
It really attracts topical aggression
Ugh...
Then that's porn, why are you watching the movie?
That's right
Oh, that's just ridiculous
It's all the directors who do that.
Aren’t you doing this for vicarious satisfaction?
Ah, well, if a man makes it, it’s a pornographic video.
If a woman makes it, isn’t it considered art?
Siwoo
A learned person should make it too.
Listen to the learned pervert
If we make it, it will just be a normal pervert
Hmm...
What do you think, the learned director?
Do you have to go that far?
Oh, other than that
Is there anything else?
Ah....
Minjoo
What happened?
Today you...
I don't think this is the democracy I knew
Then who do you think I am?
It's just...
It's like someone else came into your body
Why did you change like this...
...Really?
[ Laughs ]
I need to change...
I'm graduating soon
I didn't even get an award.
You can't be like a freshman forever
Ah, that...
What about movies with socially underprivileged characters as the main characters?
For example?
elderly people,
single mothers,
disabled people,
sex workers,
I don't think that's a good idea
Why?
I want to win a prize now
They are people who want to make movies,
and they live in good homes.
It seems like I used my money to further my career.
...
Huh?
I ate all the profits and fame, and in my acceptance speech,
“I dedicate this award to the socially underprivileged.”
If this happens,
I feel like I'm going to feel guilty.
Then, shouldn't we deal with materials rather than people?
What material?
Well...
Falling in love with an alien.
Falling in love with A.I. or cars?
Isn’t there something like that already?
You know
We should go further from there
We should go further from there?
Can you go further?
Why fall in love with my cat?
No, you have to go further to win the award
Hey! If you go further!
[ Sigh ]
If I go any further, I'm going to go crazy
Guys
This is what I'm thinking after listening to it.
Yes
Directors who win awards at film festivals
They all seem like monsters
That's right. They got the award because they were monsters
No
They didn't get the award because they were monsters
No...?
No matter how much I think about it,
maybe the trophy and title are
It seems like they're turning directors into monsters.
Oh~
That's true
But Democratic Director
If a student wants to make a movie, he has to win an award.
To win an award, he has to become a monster. Can you do anything?
Oh my, our democracy
Can it really become a monster?
I can't do it
Do I have to become a monster?
I have to become a monster...
...will that person ever look at me again?
Minjoo
Are you still meeting the professor?
Minyoung
Can't I just stop being a monster
and keep seeing that person?
Hey.
Why are you crying because of that old man?
I fell for a young and handsome man
Ah,
Siwoo!
Stop it!
Minjoo
Why are you crying?
Don't cry
Minyoung
Actually, I'm not interested in awards or anything like that
I just...
I just need that person
Oh my...
What's so good about that rotten bastard...
Oh, that rotten bastard...
You deserve heavenly punishment
Director
What's going on?
Let’s do a favor
Please?
What request?
From now on, call me professor.
Don't say director
I like the director...
It's like a curse that I became a director because of you
It's just why I became a director
I wonder if the director is stuck in something like this...
Ah...!
Oh, I like it because he's the director.
Would I like it if I wasn't the director?
That's right
So that's it?
Oh, and from now on,
Could you please stop saying those empty words to me?
Empty words? What empty words?
Well, there are empty words like I'm a fan, I respect you, I miss you, etc.
I love you.
I'm not saying empty words...
Don't say that!
If you don't want to do it, don't do it!
Those empty words you threw as a joke
These days and months are hard for me.
Why... is it hard?
Because of those empty words
Because I'm happy
I know they're empty words
Because they're so sweet and happy
Because it's hard
So
Please stop now
Director
Because they're not empty words
How can I make you believe me
I can't help it
Come in. I'll show you that these aren't empty words, so
quickly. I'm cold
Professor
Yes
Let's go outside
Why?
Don't you like it here? I just got here
It's just that
I want to go out now
I know I like it better
Yeah
Oh, it's cold
Where are you going?
Can I try that?
This?
Uh... it's cold?
Oh no.
Good
It's not cold anymore, right?
Let's go now
[sniffling sound]
[loud sigh]