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Young Girl (4)
I like movies.
Hong Seok-young and Sun Soon-jin are all surprised when I say that. Is it really that surprising that I like movies?
Well, to be exact, I like well-made visual media, not just movies. It’s probably because of the countless animations and movies I watched to pass the time at the lab when I was young. No, it’s because of me.
If you have a similar upbringing to me, you might find such visual media tiresome. In fact, Kang Tae-woo didn’t seem to like it very much. He follows Lee Seung-yeon and plays games diligently.
If I had been forced to watch it when I didn’t want to, not when I was young, but when my hair had grown thicker, I would have hated it too.
But wasn’t she a child under ten years old? There aren’t many children who would hate being told that they can watch cartoons as much as they want.
When I grew up enough to be able to tell the difference between animation, drama, and movies, I became fascinated by something else.
People often say that reading a book allows you to experience a different world by expanding your imagination. I don’t deny that. But animation or… Yes, the story I’m going to tell you now is about movies, so let’s call them movies. Movies, like books, allow you to experience new things.
Unlike books, it is a visual medium, so the impact is more direct.
So I liked the movie better than the book.
Instead of closing your eyes and struggling to imagine a building built in an architectural style you’ve never heard of, it unfolds vividly before your eyes.
I can tour the country as if I were traveling without having to go there, and I can also feel the hardships of a job that I thought I would never have in my life.
I can experience everything I have never experienced before, including travel, breakups, and love.
Of course, it’s different from experiencing it firsthand. It’s definitely different.
But if you can learn the bitterness of failure without having to experience it yourself… isn’t that a gain?
What I want to show the students at Hunter Training High School is an extension of that experience.
I don’t mean to brainwash you or anything, but to give you something to think about. Don’t you know that we do this at school once in a while? Write down what you think after reading a book or watching a movie.
“Wow. What is all this?”
After class, the children gathered in the auditorium and were amazed to see something different from usual.
There was a large projector screen, comfy sofas, and a table in the corner with popcorn and drinks.
“When did you prepare all this?”
“This hunter helped me.”
“Are you my aunt?”
Lee Seung-yeon opened her eyes wide.
“Well, if it’s not my aunt, then who else would do it? My aunt is not the type of person to go around and run errands like this.”
Lee Seung-yeon glanced at Im Yi-seon, who was examining the equipment. Although she was desperately ignoring me, it was clear that she was listening to our conversation.
“Please use me more in the future!”
“…Your aunt?”
“yes!”
“Is that okay?”
“Even when I was at the Seoul Guild office, I was always playing around instead of working. I need to earn some money like this.”
In the end, Yimiseon looked at me with a resentful expression. Should I make excuses? But it’s a bit much for an outsider to interfere with household affairs.
I pretended not to know.
I wonder if that’s how it looks to the kids. Honestly, I think Yimiseon is the busiest person here.
The kids sat down one by one, holding snacks and unable to hide their excitement. What kind of movie are these kids looking forward to? The latest movie?
If that’s the case, then you still don’t know much about me… .
“Huh… Hello!”
At that moment, Sandra Gamble opened the auditorium door and quietly appeared. It was the first time I had seen her properly since I had said hello to her after my trip to Australia.
The haggard look is still there, but his face looks better than before. Even if it’s fake, a funeral is a funeral. Maybe it helped him sort out his thoughts.
Gamble, who rarely went to the lecture hall, started to look around. There wasn’t anything particularly unusual, but… Runes? There were runes on the walls of the lab, but what?
“A lot of other people came too?”
Following Gamble, Kim Chae-min quietly approached and spoke.
As Kim Chae-min said, not only the children who were originally supposed to be shown, but also other hunters living in Yangseong High School showed their faces.
That’s why I said it’s not a new movie. It’s not a blockbuster movie!
“… Since everyone is so interested in movies, we should make time for regular gatherings.”
“Professor Woo, you choose the movie list?”
“of course.”
“Then I’ll leave.”
Kim Chae-min responded to my answer with a cool voice.
“…What if I choose?”
“I think I’ll just pick the boring ones.”
“How do you know that?”
“The kids are watching.”
Kim Chae-min snorted.
“I’m sure we’ll only select educational films.”
“… … .”
“Look. You can’t say no, right?”
I feel like I’m in trouble for some reason.
“This time too… What movie did you say it was? Europe? I was really lamenting, wondering where this hunter knew about this.”
“He didn’t do that to me.”
“It’s because this hunter is kind.”
Kim Chae-min giggled. Meanwhile, Gamble, who had brought popcorn, came out and joined Kim Chae-min’s conversation naturally.
“So what movie is it?”
“hmm.”
I thought about it for a moment and then answered.
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“The lonely worries of Dahlia, a teenage girl.”
“…yes?”
“I beg your pardon?”
Han… That was the title when it was released in Korea about ten years later. Of course, it was criticized by movie fans and the title was later changed.
I snorted lightly.
“It must have been released a long time ago in the US. This is a 2012 film.”
“Oh my. It’s old?”
“It’s a work that has won several awards, but it’s relatively unknown in Korea. But in the US… Hmm. Maybe Dr. Gamble knows about it?”
“What’s the title?”
“In America, we would say, ‘The Birth of a Hero, or Farewell to Youth.’”
When he heard me, Gamble suddenly put down his popcorn with a look on his face that said he had lost his appetite.
Kim Chae-min was taken aback by Gamble’s stark reaction. No, but why are you glaring at me? Are you going to show me something I shouldn’t show to the kids?
“Excuse me, Mr. Woo.”
“yes.”
“I’ve been thinking about this for a while….”
Gamble asked cautiously.
“Do you think those kids don’t want to become hunters?”
“…yes?”
“Or. Uh, that movie… Well, of course, you could say that it was inspiring in some ways.”
I watched the gamble quietly.
I thought I knew the movie, but I didn’t really know it. It’s just less known in Korea, but it’s well-received overseas, and it’s a movie that people who know it know. Despite its unnecessarily profound and poetic title.
Thick curtains are drawn across the windows in the auditorium and the lights go out. A clear image appears on the projector screen. The chattering children become quiet and the only sound is the sound of popcorn being eaten.
The movie begins.
Only then did I answer Gamble.
“No. I’m not against kids becoming hunters.”
“… … .”
“But I think it’s up to each person to choose what to do.”
* * *
The film’s main character, Dahlia, is 17 years old. She’s the kind of girl you can find anywhere who looks like an ordinary girl of that age.
But there is one thing that sets Dahlia apart from others.
‘Dahlia, I heard your younger brother cleared the dungeon this time?’
‘Dahlia, Mom will be entering the dungeon starting tomorrow.’
‘Dad, come in too.’
Dahlia’s entire family are hunters.
Including my parents, my grandmother, aunts and uncles, cousins, and even my younger brother.
In it, Dahlia is the only unawakened one.
I’ve seen this movie countless times. Even though many things have changed, some things don’t.
At first, the children who were squirming around as if they were bored are starting to focus on the movie one by one. The movie is now past its midpoint.
The protagonist Dahlia’s younger brother dies while clearing a dungeon.
The 15-year-old boy left behind a corpse in the dungeon. The atmosphere of the story completely changed from that point on. The same goes for Dahlia’s family. The only successor to the traditional hunter family died.
Surprisingly, Yujin starts to sob. I didn’t think it was a movie that would make you cry while watching, but it seems it wasn’t for my young sensibility.
The film ends with Dahlia deciding to take over the family line in place of her younger brother. Of course, Dahlia does not become an Awakened One. Instead of becoming a Hunter, Dahlia establishes a guild and supports Hunters to raise the family’s status. Dahlia’s parents smile at their daughter for the first time in the film, saying they are glad that she is like that.
At the beginning of the movie, the girl’s biggest worry was what dress to wear to the dance party with her friends, but in the last scene, she cuts her hair like her younger brother, wears his clothes, and speaks bluntly like her younger brother.
“… … .”
Kim Chae-min looked back at me, holding both hands tightly.
“It’s a movie that’s really like a teacher.”
“…Is that a curse?”
“It’s the movie you chose. Why is it an insult?”
“What you are saying is….”
Kim Chae-min let out a small laugh and shook her head.
“No, it was a good movie. I can see why Mr. Woo wanted to show this to kids now. I wish I had seen it when I was that age.”
“… … .”
“Even if you regret it, you have to make your own choice. Right? That’s what I always tell Jinwoo.”
“What about Park Seo-hyun?”
“Seohyun is a girl who knows what she can do and what she wants to do. It’s not for me to say anything.”
Kim Chae-min smiled with a bittersweet look.
“When you’re that age, if someone says something to you, you tend to think, “Oh, I see,” and then you get swept away, right?”
“… Mr. Kim too?”
“Me? I’m a wizard, so my career path was decided from a young age.”
Even though she knew that I wasn’t asking that, Kim Chae-min pretended not to know.
I didn’t think it was right to ask questions to someone who didn’t want to talk, so I quietly listened to what Kim Chae-min had to say.
“Being a hunter doesn’t mean you’re not human….”
“In the old days, the Awakened were treated as monsters.”
“Oh, isn’t this a story from a long time ago? I think it would only apply to someone as old as Mr. Hong.”
“That’s not necessarily the case. It doesn’t seem to be the case in Korea, but in the US, there are many places where public authority does not reach…. I heard that such things happen more often than you might think.”
Gamble also joined the conversation.
I looked at the screen where the ending credits were rolling. The kids were talking among themselves. Should I eavesdrop? No, I was told to write a review anyway.
If you feel like you can’t sort something out on your own, you should probably come to a counseling center.
Gamble, who had been giving a passionate speech about the problem of the awakened in America, scratched his head with an awkward face as the credits ended and the lights in the auditorium came back on.
“Anyway, that’s me.”
Before I approached the kids, I spoke to Kim Chae-min and Gamble. Maybe to Kim Chae-min.
“I want kids to know that they have the option to stop whenever they don’t want to do it.”
“Do you know that?”
“…What?”
“Actually, when I was little, I wanted to be a movie actor.”
The woman who could only be a wizard closed her eyes and smiled brightly.
“I thought I would be able to wear a lot of pretty clothes.”
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