Take Care Of My Cat

(Goyangyi-rul Butakhae)

(Korea, 2001)

 

Jeong Jae-eun, "Take Care of My Cat" (2001)

Incheon is a city where residents dream of living in Seoul, the city to which a connective railway was built. Incheon, with Korea's first Chinatown, is also where foreigners heading to Seoul arrive for the first time. In this city live several women who dream of an outside world, like cats on windows sills. After graduating from commercial high school, the girls all enter society with big dreams: one dreams of becoming a career woman at a security corporation, one wants to become a poet, and the last of the three, with a talent for drawing, aspires to study abroad. To them home is still a place of suppression.

In his film "Rebel without a Cause," Nicholas Ray captured the suppression his characters experienced from a low angle, with the "ceiling" depicted in an over-powering manner. In this film, the ceiling simply collapses.

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Director: Jeong Jae-eun
Producer: Oh Ki-min
Screenplay: Jeong Jae-eun
Cinematography: Choi Young-hwan
Production Designer: Kim Jin-chui
Editor: Lee Hyun-mee
Sound: Yim Dong-seok
Music: M & F
Cast: Bae Doo-na, Lee Yo-won, Ok Ji-young

Korea, 2001, 35mm, color, 112 min.