#jeon do-yeon

[biokam]

South Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon (born February 11, 1973). Photo by 티비텐 TV10.

[filmap]

밀양 / Secret Sunshine Lee Chang-dong. 2007

Opening titles 71-1 Unjeon-ri, Bubuk-myeon, Miryang-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea See in map

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[doloremiipsum]

One of the best displays of cinematography in The Housemaid (2010) which I rambled about here... Idk I'm having a lot of thoughts about this movie after my first watch let me be slightly pretentious ok

You start off with the characters on more or less equal footing, but then the vantage point lowers as Ko Hoon stands up and begins to advance on his mother-in-law. In combination with the dutch angle he becomes, suddenly, much more threatening.

You eventually arrive at these pairs of shots that have a quite extreme difference compared to the camera's initial position. The power imbalance is stark: that piece of shit is literally looking down on the other. Something I forgot to mention in the other post is how the director Im Sang-Soo loved to have these gradual zooming/panning/rotational gestures, a very perfect way to build up intensity in slow-paced moments. In this case, the cameras zoom in as the confrontation escalates.

At the end of the conversation, you get this beautiful, beautiful, dutch angle (the framing using physical space & also lighting!!!) before a return to normalcy (with the same vantage point as the start of the conflict. 10/10 chef's kiss mwah I sure love a touch of east asian subtlety in filmmaking...

There are many striking cases of dutch angles/dramatic vantage points/framing/slow zooms/pans/spins breaking the "calmness" and it's all oh-so-symbolic when you start to think about how the camera work mirrors the the tension bubbling under the surface of a household that appears to be perfect... how things begin to spiral out of control...

[geek-ramblings]

*fans self*

[kaipanzero]

Kill Boksoon

길복순 (2023)

[splinteredsoul]

The Contact (1997)

dir. Chang Yoon-hyun

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— jeon do-yeon 전도연