Young Adult Matters (2021) – Korean Movie Review

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Young Adult Matters (2021)

어른들은 몰라요

Directed by: Lee Hwan (이환)
Starring: Lee Yoo-mi (이유미), Hani (하니), Lee Hwan (이환) Shin Haet-bit (신햇빛)
Release Date: April 15th, 2021


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Se-jin (Lee Yoo-mi) is a troubled teenage girl. Living alone with her younger sister, she yearns for something more in life but is unsure of what it is. She finds stimulation in cutting herself with a razorblade and receives a punishing amount of bullying and verbal abuse from her classmates whom she considers her friends. One day, Se-jin becomes pregnant and decides she definitely doesn’t want to keep the baby. Without any money, she impulsively leaves home to live on the streets where she meets another runaway, Joo-young (Hani), who promises to help Se-jin make money.

While the girls roam the streets stealing and sleeping in random places, they meetup with two runaway boys, Jae-pil (Lee Hwan) and Shin-ji, and begin to take bigger and bigger risks. But their carefree days of squatting in empty homes and getting high on pills become only a temporary escape from the hard and painful realties of growing up, as their behavior begins to pose and greater and greater risk to themselves and others.


 

6.3
Young Adult Matters (2021)
  • Story
    5
  • Performances
    7
  • Direction
    6.5
  • Technical
    6
  • Art
    7
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Tyler is a passionate fan of East Asian cinema, especially South Korean films which he has followed closely for nearly two decades. He started one of the Pacific Northwest's first Korean Cinema Clubs out of the University of Idaho in 2004, where he also spent a year abroad studying Japanese at Nagasaki University of Foreign Languages. Since 2011, Tyler has been living and working in Seoul, South Korea as a freelance English teacher and writer. He also spent one year studying at Sogang University's well-known Korean Language program.
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