bonniemyhre1 Review of A Muse

A Muse (2012)

Behold a star is born. Go-Eun Kim is all that you could want.

[10/10 · 7 May 2017]

Go-Eun Kim is perfectly cast in her role. She is perfection in a nearly perfect film. I hope, no I beg heaven to send her roles that allow her intellect and her natural grace to take deep roots. She has star quality and I don't use this term lightly. The question is what to do with all this talent? Given the depth and breath of contemporary Korean literature I hope for the best. Let us all send healing thoughts;protection from the star making machinery of the popular star. As a western viewer I see in Asian film a different structure to the stories told by Asian directors. The climax of the film comes very late. In Western film just about 47 to 54 minutes into the film the crises occurs with embarrassing regularity then the film winds down with a logical, if not predictable, outcomes. On re- viewing of Asian films (I always watch them 2 or 3 times) I see that the 47 to 54 minute window holds a cashe of motivating factors that makes the late climax feel like the wheels of fate have turned and the lessons for the future are planted in the ending. Different way of thinking. The reason that I bring this up in relation to thoughts about Go-Eun Kim is that she makes this poignantly readable, even to a cross cultural viewer. She has a je ne sais quoi that can not be denied. So I ask the God of film, (I am sure there is one) to care for this child of hers like a flower that should not be picked.