Korean Non-blockbusters We Cant Miss explores well-made Korean films but which were not successful at the box-office. This weeks films include Love Phobia directed by Kang Ji-eun and Park Sin-juns How do we look at the world.
The 2006 romance film, Love Phobia depicts the haunting memories of a curious young girl and a naïve young boys first love. A young girl Ari tells everyone in the class that she is cursed and whoever touches her will be also cursed. Everyone then becomes afraid of her, except Jo-kang who believes everything she says and wants to do anything for her. However, after they huddle together, Jo-kang becomes sick, and Ari disappears. When they meet again ten years later, Jo-kang becomes sick again after Ari kisses him, and she disappears again. She appears again in front of him when they become adults, but he discovers that Ari is suffering from AIDS - Ari calls this as a curse. He stays up with her at her last moments.
The 2006 short film with running time of 4 minutes is set in a bus on a busy road in the centre of the city where skyscrapers are standing in a row. A variety of passengers on the bus are doing all different things. A middle-aged man with shabby clothes gets on the bus and starts saying that his wife is in the hospital. The passengers think that he is just selling things on the bus, and turn away their heads. However, he just asks them to pray for his wife who will have brain surgery today. Everyone on the bus is surprised at his words as they just judged him as a guy selling things because of the way he looks. The film conveys that the world becomes harsher, depending on the way people view the world.
