Packing drama (2014) for a strong woman. Director: July Jung - Young-nam, a young Commissioner from Seoul, is moved to a village on the coast. There, time seems to stand still. Dohee, a young girl, is abused by her family and the village children. Young-nam steps in...
Young-nam is transferred from the metropolis of Seoul to a police department in a village on the coast. The young Commissioner looks at the villagers who live in established habits and tacitly found compromises. When she sees the girl Dohee being abused by alcohol-dependent father Yong-ha, she steps in. The neglected child is regularly beaten and insulted. When Dohee's cruel family once again hunts the frightened girl, the senile Grandma kills her scooter deadly. Her drunken son is sure: his daughter is to blame for this death. The child is completely disturbed and finds shelter at Young-nam. It becomes clear that Young-nam also has alcohol problems and has asked her to move away from her homosexuality and her ex-girlfriend. When she visits her, Dohee's father learns of Young-nams' lesbian tendencies and scours rumors that eventually bring the Commissioner to jail. The film is a gripping drama about a strong woman who struggles with herself. She tries to do the right thing and fleees her own conflicts. By her help for self-help, Dohee frees herself from the catches of despair. But who helps in the end?
Since the revival of South Korean filmproduction in the 1990s and 2000s, filmmakers from South Korea have enjoyed an outstanding reputation both nationally and internationally due to their vibrancy and quality. (A pioneering role played alone Im know-taek). How beautiful that now a young woman has taken the scale with her first feature film: the director, screenwriter and editor Jeong Joo-ri, born in 1980, known under the pseudonym Julyjung. As a woman, she is an exception in her country, where there are much fewer directors than in France and other European countries. She studied film science at the Sungkyunkwan University under the direction of Lee Chang-dong, one of South Korea's most respected film directors (also a writer and former minister of culture). His student's screenplay convinced him that he decided to take part in her feature film debut "Dohee - Run Away". In fact, July Jong's work demonstrates an extraordinary mastery and has the qualities that make cinema from the "country of the quiet morning" so popular abroad. "Dohee can run away" is a psychodrama, excitingly told as a thriller. The film combines influences of the Lee Chang-dong and the first (and best) films of Bong Joon-ho.
Young-nam, a young Seoul Commissioner, is taken to a village and has to deal with a network of habits, prejudices and secrets. She encounters the young Dohee, whose disturbed, peculiar behavior makes her curious. One night, Dohee takes refuge with her ...
The special feature of the film is its female and feminist outlook - in a country where machismo and patriarchy are often described as a firmly established foundation of the still very conservative society in the film. "Dohee can run away" has the courage to address several topics that are taboo in Korea. The film does not want to be pleasing; He is hard and painful, but very apt. Doona Bae, one of the best Korean actresses of her generation, offers a splendid performance in the role of the policewoman. Previously, she was thrilled in the films of Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. She is also one of the few with an international career: thanks to her remarkable appearances in the films "Cloud Atlas" (2012, screenplay and director: Tom Tykwer, Andrew and Lara Wachowski) and "Air Doll" (2009, directed by Hirokazu Kore -EDA). Because of them, and for other good reasons, you have to look at "Dohee - run away everyone"!