Peppermint Candy (1999)

Peppermint Candy: Directed by Chang-dong Lee. With Sol Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin, Se-beom Park. Following a man’s suicide, time traverses back to reveal six chapters of his life on why he committed suicide.

“while it may take being Korean (and being part of the u0026quot;386-generationu0026quot; that really went through all the turbulent events of this movieu0026#39;s timeline) to fully appreciate this movie, it is nevertheless a powerful, graphic, and grippingly emotional commentary on South Korea of the the last twenty years. Director Chang-dong Lee masterfully presents the plot in reverse chronological order, and protagonist Kyung-gu Sol handily goes from broken buisnessman to lovesick schoolboy by the movieu0026#39;s end/his troubled roadu0026#39;s beginning. In a way, this movie is perhaps Koreau0026#39;s unique and tragic answer to a movie like u0026quot;Forrest Gump.u0026quot; u0026quot;Na ottokeu0026quot; (u0026quot;what do I do?u0026quot;) – indeed, what does one do when faced with such experiences? Easily one of the best Korean movies Iu0026#39;ve seen to date.”