#Mysteries of the abandoned cast movie#
It's also one of the few long shots in a movie that was filmed mostly in extreme closeup. The story's final scene, while far from offering dramatic resolution, is poignant and satisfying. The girls soon bond with their grandmother (Boon-tak Park), whose domestic skills amaze them. Life is hard there, yet, in a way, also easier. When mom's return is indefinitely postponed, Big Aunt takes the kids farther away from modern South Korea, to live with their grandparents on a farm. The proceeds go into the piggy, but it's Bin who stumbles on a way to stuff the bank quickly. Jin starts a small business, catching, roasting and selling grasshoppers as a snack. Often left alone, the girls occasionally visit a local boy whose mother is happy to feed them cake. Sometimes, she's too hung over to get up and prepare breakfast for the girls - or even to get up off the floor. But she's less interested in Jin and Bin than she is in soju, the Korean equivalent of rotgut vodka.
#Mysteries of the abandoned cast full#
Before she gets on the bus, their mother gives the girls a plastic piggybank and tells them she'll return when the pig is full of coins.īig Aunt is no child-abusing Dickensian ogre. Mom packs up Jin and Bin and takes them to a smaller city where they can stay with dad's sister, known only as Big Aunt (Mi-hyang Kim). Then their mother (Soo Ah) gets some bad news - financial, apparently - and decides to go search for the girls' absent father.
When the story begins, 6-year-old Jin (Hee-yeon Kim) is an assured Seoul schoolgirl who collects 5-year-old sister Bin (Song-hee Kim) daily on her way home. While this minimalist tale could have been heartbreaking, what's most affecting is not the kids' plight but their pluck. Like Hee-yeon Kim, Song-hee Kim, who plays younger sister Bin, had no acting experience when she was cast for the film.Ībandoned by their mother, two little girls are shunted from relative to relative in Treeless Mountain, which is set in New York-based director So-yong Kim's native South Korea.
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