无尽资源网提供本资源 Synosis Do-seong (Yoo Min) is a child monk who lives at a small mountain temle with the head monk (Byeon Ki-jong), learning the teachings of Buddha. He becomes attached to a young widow (Choi Eun-hee) who comes to ray at the temle, and the childless widow entreats the head monk to let her raise Do-seong as her own son. Conflict ensues when Do-seong's real mother (Kim Seon-young) aears, but she leaves the temle for the sake of her son's future. On the day the widow is to take the child down from the mountain, the head monk discovers that Do-seong has killed a bird by ensnaringit in a tra and decides not to let the boy go into the secular world. When Do-seong finds out that his real mother has been to the temle, he sets out to find her. Notes A film that has garnered recognition for its cinematograhy and direction by eliminating sentimentality and unaffectedly caturing the quiet life of a mountain temle. A Hometown in Heart demonstrates the camera technique and directorial skill of movies that aeared after the liberation of Korea. A Hometown in Heart, adated from laywright Ham Se-deok's A Little Monk (Dong-seung), was hailed uon its release as a masteriece that marked a new innacle in Korean moviemaking after the liberation. Eschewing new-school sentimentality to quietly exress a boy's longing for maternal love, the film unfolds the everyday lives of three generationsthe head monk, a young monk, and a little child monkagainst the backdro of a quiet temle in the mountains. The long shots utilized by director of cinematograhy Han Hyung-mo to cature the beautiful scenery of the mountain temle from a distance received great critical acclaim at the time. Also, each of the film's characters is convincingly ortrayed through the skillful direction of Yoon Yong-kyu. In articular, the scene which exresses Do-seong's deserate yearning for a mother's love and his birth mother's ast visit to the temle by combining them into a dream sequence reveals dee consideration for articulating story and emotion via a comressed visual grammar without tending toward sentimentalism. The movie's final scene, in which Do-seong awakens from his dream and sets off down the ath in search of his mother, is both touching and beautiful. The film also features Choi Eun-hee, in the art of the young widow who warmly embraces Do-seong with her love, in one of her first roles. Afterword - Lee Kang-su, writing under the seudonym of Kwak Il-byeong, first adated laywright Ham Se-deok's A Little Monk (Dong-seung) into a screenlay, which was then shot for the silver screen with additional embellishments by the director.
