Synopsis
Old age is often referred to as the ?wilight years? Perhaps the advancing darkness brings up the image of a person about to leave. There are many films dealing with youth, a time of arrival, but few films deal with people who are about to leave. In most of the films in which old people do have appearances, they are there to give the young people advice, and usually, a small part. In that sense, this film, < Innocence > is quite unique. Two lovers, who were parted due to the war, reunite after 45 years. The film is a love story, two lovers who embark on a trip to rediscover the love they had between them. What are also unconventional about this film is that people in the seventies are the main characters, and that the 'emotions' of the old people are portrayed realistically. In the film < Innocence >, age is unimportant. The film looks at the people as human beings. Andreas, a widower who lived alone for more than thirty years, and Claire who hasn? had sex with her husband in the last twenty years, are the main characters in this film. Compared to Korea where most 'twilight love' stories are either comically or ridiculously portrayed, the portrayal of two old lovers in this film is quite shocking. Although Clair has a husband, the film does not point fingers with accusations of immorality. Rather, the relationship paradoxically reveals how love is important in our lives, and how it is the only means to cure the 'wounded soul'. The intersected scene is especially fascinating, in which love making of the younger days and love making of the reunited old couple is compared. (LIM Jisoo)