Mo Geumsan (48) is a barber living in the rural area, who once aspired to be an actor. He starts to have doubts about his humdrum life after the village health center advises him to be examined at a larger hospital. He comes up with a plan to give a gift to his beloved ones in the coming Christmas. The plan is to invite everyone to the local culture center and to screen his self-made comedy movie based on his own tragic life.

I wished to restore a certain period of time and space from our past. I intended to return some of the essential human emotions back to where they used to be, which are discarded as something outdated and sentimental in today’s society. One could call these as the remnants of ‘romanticism’. The protagonist of this film ‘Mo Geumsan’ represents a generation of paradox. This is a generation that ran away from home to the city in the periods of industrialization. Facing his imminent death, he is presented with a new perspective on life. Yet, for some reason, this perspective does not seem to fit into modern times. It is somehow tacky, unnatural, and even ridiculous. Of course, living in this ‘cool’ society, we could merely sneer at this character, or perhaps we could be affected a little.

2016 제21회 부산국제영화제 뉴 커런츠 부문, 넷팩상