![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
Revenge is sweet. ::evil grin::
In other news, the Yenching library is amazing! Nan and I went wandering in it today, and we went through all the stacks, looking at the sheer volume of books, books, books, all in East Asian languages. We could even take the very old books, the ones written by hand in brush script, with these delicate cloth bound covers and carved latches, and open them up. Wonderful. We also got the librarian to open up the DVD cabinet for us. I came away with a Korean tsumego book (which is supposed to be very basic, even though I have trouble understanding the first problem >_<) and a movie, which I will loosely translate as "Beautiful Days". I think I'll make a horrible translator. The word 시절 is actually more like "era" or at least "days" with the connotation of "past" or "season" but I can't find the right word that will suit the context. -_-
The movie was really nicely done, I felt, and very well-acted. It was about a boy growing up in a village during the years of the Korean War, and the juxtaposition of historical events (like the signing of the truce) with events in his own life was particularly deft. There were some sad moments that were surprisingly unsentimental and yet all the more touching for their bareness. The scenes were beautiful without being overly nostalgic; there's a certain clean-cut feel to the movie that is missing in Korean films with modern-day settings.
And of course, there was an underlying feeling of familiarity throughout the movie. It was almost uncanny how I recognized the village as the same kind that my father grew up in. He's told me so many stories about growing up in the countryside, and it's almost bizarre how similar the movie is to the way I pictured his stories in my head. He was actually around the same age during the war as the protagonist is in the movie too. I think he should watch it actually.
I should be cleaning my room and reading Zanker right now, so I'll go back to that.
Oh, before I forget, taken from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ldmoonflower:
whatever your friends say about you behind your back,
it's a sure bet they're using the word GLIPPITY a lot.
Which Vastly Underrated Onomatopoeia Are You?
take the quiz by transmothra x @ meat-thing.com!
...Tari
Revenge is sweet. ::evil grin::
In other news, the Yenching library is amazing! Nan and I went wandering in it today, and we went through all the stacks, looking at the sheer volume of books, books, books, all in East Asian languages. We could even take the very old books, the ones written by hand in brush script, with these delicate cloth bound covers and carved latches, and open them up. Wonderful. We also got the librarian to open up the DVD cabinet for us. I came away with a Korean tsumego book (which is supposed to be very basic, even though I have trouble understanding the first problem >_<) and a movie, which I will loosely translate as "Beautiful Days". I think I'll make a horrible translator. The word 시절 is actually more like "era" or at least "days" with the connotation of "past" or "season" but I can't find the right word that will suit the context. -_-
The movie was really nicely done, I felt, and very well-acted. It was about a boy growing up in a village during the years of the Korean War, and the juxtaposition of historical events (like the signing of the truce) with events in his own life was particularly deft. There were some sad moments that were surprisingly unsentimental and yet all the more touching for their bareness. The scenes were beautiful without being overly nostalgic; there's a certain clean-cut feel to the movie that is missing in Korean films with modern-day settings.
And of course, there was an underlying feeling of familiarity throughout the movie. It was almost uncanny how I recognized the village as the same kind that my father grew up in. He's told me so many stories about growing up in the countryside, and it's almost bizarre how similar the movie is to the way I pictured his stories in my head. He was actually around the same age during the war as the protagonist is in the movie too. I think he should watch it actually.
I should be cleaning my room and reading Zanker right now, so I'll go back to that.
Oh, before I forget, taken from
ldmoonflower:whatever your friends say about you behind your back,
it's a sure bet they're using the word GLIPPITY a lot.
Which Vastly Underrated Onomatopoeia Are You?
take the quiz by transmothra x @ meat-thing.com!
...Tari
