GRUMPY
2006
Mid length
Chang-min Oh | 2006 | Fiction | DV | Color | 43min 15sec
SYNOPSIS
There is a cop called Woo-Jin who works hard, but he is a little obsessed with his work. He knows what to do and how to deal with his jobs-related situations. However, his behavior sometimes seems ego-centric to others and vice-versa. Based upon the fact that people tend to make decisions according to what they have seen or believe, people get hurt and hurt another because of their ego-centric personality in this movie. As mentioned before, the purpose of this movie is to show how personal judgments could be made. All logical decisions (or judgments) come from a process of reasoning, which implies that there are some illusionary or unrealistic assumptions in the process. The main actor, Woo-Jin,is getting more obsessed with this process in spite of himself. While Woo-Jin is getting through all these processes, he becomes ignored by his co-workers, a lover, and family. In the end, he becomes more confused between the reality and the fantasy.
DIRECTING INTENTION
Although the main actor lives on this planet, he sees an intangible illusion. What is the true reality and what isthe fantasy? People sometimes force others or get forced to do something that they don't want to. No matter what the truth is, it is undeniable that the enforcement comes from personal judgments. Whether the personal judgments are logical or illogical, it is inevitable that a logical leap gets involved in making a decision. For that matter, a logical leap is borrowed from a lack of certainty. In this movie, I have wanted to describe the above-mentioned triangle relationship among people, personal judgments, and uncertainty. Thus, this movie is all about people who suffer from a lack of certainty that could be logical or illogical in making a decision. By explaining the weak boundary between an illusion and a reality, all personal judgments and decisions could be either illusionary or realistic. I hope that people have difficulty in getting specific clues or answers about this movie because the purpose of the movie is based upon stimulating people into making their own decisions. In other words, I want the audience to interpret this movie differently. Moreover, I have to say that all the judgments throughout the movie are nothing but each individual's opinions or thoughts.
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
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2006 부산 아시아 단편 영화제
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DIRECTOR

Chang-min Oh
STAFF
Director Chang-min Oh
Producer Gun Kim
Assistant Director Jeong-yoel Choi
Screen writer Chang-min Oh
Cinematographer Tae-won Jang Editor Chang-min Oh
Lighting Tae-won Jang
Art Director Jeong-hee Kim, Hyun-shik Choi Music Il-ran Won
Boom operator Jae-ha Lee
Sound Yong-soo Pyo
Make up Sun Y. Choi
Continuity clerk Yoo-sun Han
Assistant director 2th Sin-young Choi
Cinematographer, Lighting Assistant Sun-hyuk Kim, Tae-soo Kim, Hyo-joo Yang, A-ji Jung
Production Design Assistant Vivianna Kim, Hyun shik Choi
Make up Assistant Ji-hye Kim
Driver Bo-kyung Kim
Translation In-ho Lee
Color Compensating Bong-sun Byun
Cast Yong-jin Shin, Ji-young Eom, Mickey Kim, Je-jin Jung, Nam-hye Park, Suk-yeon Hong,
Yong-geol Kim, Min-ho Park, Gun Kim, Young-hun Jung, Gun-jea Jang, Yoon-shik Hahm, Hyun-shik Choi,
Gyu-shik Min, Chang-min Oh, Tae-soo Kim, Hyun-shik Choi, Vivianna Kim, Sun-hyuk Kim, Sin-young Choi,
Jae-ha Lee, Hyo-joo Yang, Ji-hye Kim, Yong-tae Park, Bo-kyung Kim, Jeong-yoel Choi