Synopsis
Duck Town is the debut feature film of Yu Ji-young, director of the short films, Confession (2011), which won at both the 2010 Seoul International Women’s Film Festival and Jeonju International Film Festival, and One Day (2014), which won Best Cinematography at the Mise-enscène Short Film Festival. Yu Ji-young presented her own chilled and sharp sense and style through these two short films. Set in Suseong Lake in Daegu, the director’s hometown, Duck Town tells a story of continuously failing young people. The two lead characters, Hee-jung and Young-mok, have completely opposite goals: Hee-jung’s is to survive by at all costs, while Youngmok’s is to die in every way possible. The film focuses on young people drifting like duck boats, tied up and unable to fly where is no sea or even a river. Yu Ji-young doesn’t treat the young people’s intense and serious pain lightly but tries to understand it. (JIN Myunghyun)