Summertime (2001 film)

Summertime
Hangul 썸머타임
Revised Romanization Sseommeotaim
McCune–Reischauer Ssŏmmŏtaim
Directed by Park Jae-ho
Produced by Cha Seung-jae
Written by Yu Gap-yeol
Based on Scorpio Nights 
by Peque Gallaga
Starring Ryu Soo-young
Kim Ji-hyun
Music by Um In-ho
Cinematography Shin Hyun-joong
Edited by Park Soon-duk
Release dates
  • May 26, 2001 (2001-05-26)
Running time
103 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean

Summertime (Hangul: 썸머타임; RR: Sseommeotaim) is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Park Jae-ho and starring Ryu Soo-young and Kim Ji-hyun. A remake of the controversial Philippine film Scorpio Nights (1985), the film was also inspired by the Gwangju massacre.[1][2]

Plot

Set in the 1980s, Sang-ho is a student activist hiding out in a small rural village. He accidentally witnesses, through a hole on the floor of his second story room, a married couple having sex. He discovers he is a voyeur at heart and becomes bolder and bolder in his actions. One day, he gets an opportunity to play out his fantasies. When the husband is not home, Sang-ho goes downstairs. Imitating the husband's manner of foreplay even down to the sequence, the young man has sex with the wife. She, like Sang-ho, is a prisoner of the house. The second time he comes to her, he touches her in a different way which makes her turn around and discover that there is a stranger in her bed. But this does not deter her as she reaches out to him for an intense embrace. The husband, Tae-yeol, is an ex-policeman fired for alleged corruption, and his wife Hee-ran, who was raped by him as a young girl, for the sake of status quo has ended up as his wife and prisoner.

Cast

References

  1. "Summer Time (2001) Movie Review". Beyond Hollywood. 26 January 2003. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  2. "Voyeurism, politics and desire in Summer Time". The Korea Times via Hancinema. 25 March 2004. Retrieved 2013-05-28.

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