Verschollen in der City (2009)

Verschollen in der City: Directed by Hae-jun Lee. With Jae-yeong Jeong, Ryeowon Jung, Yeong-seo Park, Mi-kyeong Yang. A failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.

“I canu0026#39;t believe I hadnu0026#39;t heard of this movie until it showed up in my Netflix recommendations. Why isnu0026#39;t everyone talking about this movie? Why didnu0026#39;t it win best foreign picture? Why… Oh, right. No car chases. No sex scenes. No scenes in bars, or at football games. Subtitles. If you can enjoy a movie with subtitles, if you donu0026#39;t think someone has to look or act just like you to be comprehensible as a human being, if youu0026#39;ve ever read a poem and loved it, you will likely love this movie. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIu0026#39;m not even going to talk about the plot. The plot is wonderful, but not really the point. This is a movie about isolation, and human connections, and what makes us human at all. It is a social commentary, and a beautifully told fable. To call it a romantic comedy, to compare it to an American movie with a similar title, is to miss the point entirely.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWarning: before you watch this movie, youu0026#39;d better figure out where you can find a local source for black bean noodles (u0026#39;jajangmyunu0026#39; in Korean). Even if youu0026#39;ve never tasted them, youu0026#39;ll be craving them by the end of the movie. I have tasted them – fresh from a street vendor in Seoul – and Iu0026#39;m now nearly wild for black bean noodles.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd this basic hunger for a simple comfort food – for enjoyment of sustenance with all the associations that come with true comfort food – sums up the movie nicely.”