The Dinner
2013
Feature 6
KIM Dong-hyun | 2013 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 125min
SYNOPSIS
The children are busy. The daughter has got divorced and is now taking care of her autistic son. The oldest son has lost his job and is busy finding another job. The youngest son doesn't have a decent job but manages to get by through driving a delivery truck and working as a chauffeur. Their parents don't blame their children for not calling or visiting on their mother's birthday. The father makes a gift of a hamburger to his wife. She had never tasted one before, but enjoys it instead of a birthday cake.
DIRECTING INTENTION
In the Age of Polarization, the working class is being driven into a dead end. The characters in the film attempt to show in depth the psychological state of our working class people who feels deprived of an ordinary life due to the controlling economic value system. The film tries to create an accurate portrait of this age where there is dissipation in people's willingness to form a family due to divorce and the failure in the economic foundation. Through Jae-hyun, the symbolic character who is unable to communicate, the truth is once again confirmed that only love makes our value of existence obvious and that true happiness is had only by those who guard the love through all kinds of hardship.
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
2013 제18회 부산국제영화제 폐막작
DIRECTOR

KIM Dong-hyun
From Island (1997, 16mm, 33min.)
A Starving Day (2004, 35mm, 20min)
A Shark (2005, 35mm, 109min)
Hello, Stranger (2007, 35mm, 112min 53sec)
STAFF
Director : KIM Dong-hyun
Producer : PARK Jin-soo
Screenwriter : KIM Dong-hyun
Cinematography : LEE Jin-keun
Editor : LEE Do-hyun
Lighting : LEE Joo-saeng
Mixing : LEE Sung-chul
의상 : CHOI Yu-ri
분장 : KIM Moon-hee
Cast : JUNG Eui-gap, PARK Se-jin, JEON Kwang-jin