A Better Tomorrow 0.24

2009

Short 5

Duck-yoon Lim | 2009|Fiction|Color, B&W|DV|32min 55sec

SYNOPSIS

Duck-yoon, a man with acquired blindness and cardiac failure, has to get dialysis three times a week at a hospital. One day, like many other days, he comes back home weary and lonely after a dialysis.
Duck-yoon's daily life is not very different from a normal person, although he has to use a voice-eye scanner to pick today's TV dinner.

Then, one day Sang-won, a musical actor and a friend of Duck-yoon drops by. Duck-yoon tells him about the story he's been working on for a film. Then a urgent phone call makes Sang-won to go back to Seoul. Seeing his friend out to the car, Duck-yoon feels sorry about not having enough time to talk to his friend.
And the story goes on...

DIRECTING INTENTION

A purpose of direction
Is life of a disabled person should be unhappy? Does someone with a disability cannot afford to live his dream?
Here is a man who once was working towards his childhood dream as a filmmaker.
Then one day he became blind and more to that, he now has to get dialysis treatment three times a week due to his cardiac failure. He now has to open every bag of retort pouch and taste it himself before cooking a simple meal.
The man who couldn't do anything by himself slowly began to adapt to his life as it was now with the help of medical devices. These days discerning a retort pouch from one another is a piece of cake to him.
Now the disability, which is only a discomfort but not a misfortune, has been a part of everyday life to him. And he is now ready to tell the world about himself, that a disabled person is not an object of sympathy but possibly of a kind consideration.
He or she maybe slow in his doings but to please let them learn how to live their lives by themselves.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2009 제10회 장애인영화제
2009 세계장애인문화예술축제
2009 제9회 퍼블릭액세스시민영상제
2009 제14회 광주인권영화제

DIRECTOR
Duck-yoon Lim

Duck-yoon Lim

1989, < Brother > 
1993, < Pain, Pain, Pain >
1998, < Pain, Pain, Pain II >
1998, < Living Together >
1999, < Nikita >
1999, < HAM >  
2001, < Story of Living Together >
2001, < The Ransom > 

STAFF

Director : Duck-yoon Lim
Producer : Duck-yoon Lim
Screen writer : Duck-yoon Lim
Cinematographer : Hun-hee Kim
Editor : Sun-min Kim
Lighting : Hun-hee Kim
Art Director : Seung-chul Kim
Sound : Jeong-hun Yang
Cast : Duck-yoon Lim, Sang-won Oh, Sang-hun Han, Seung-chul Kim, Seong-a Jeon