Synopsis
The Remembering Movies is the winner at the International Family Film Festival 2003. Unlike many other short films nowadays, it doesn’ t go for dazzling images or a single ingenious idea. Instead, it takes the traditional method of realism to light up the meaning of family, love, and life. ‘Remembrance’ is a thing of the past, but it’ s the very thing that makes us what we are now. To help his grandma, who ’ s losing her memories due to Alzheimer s, young Decker tries to make movies out of the family’s shared past. He lost his mother not long ago, so he won’ t simply give up on grandma again without trying. His father, however, who’ s more realistic than his son, is afraid of another loss and the resulting pain. He’ d rather learn to resign and doesn’ t really like his son’s vain efforts. But Decker send endeavors get fully rewarded in an unexpected way. A beautiful meta-film that maintains stubbornly optimistic views both on the possibilities of creations and communications and on the meaning of the cinema and life itself. (Sunhyung KIM)