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7.4/10
3.1K
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Whiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.Whiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.Whiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.
- Awards
- 11 wins & 11 nominations
Kim Guk-Hee
- Hyeon-jeong
- (as Kim Gook-hee)
Kang Jin-ah
- Moon-yeong
- (as Jin-ah Kang)
Kim Ye-eun
- Jae-kyung
- (as Ye-Eun Kim)
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- TriviaThe English title "Microhabitat" is translated in Korean as "MisoSeosikji" which literally means "a place where Mi-So(the protagonist's name) lives". MisoSeosikji was the original Korean name of the film that has intended pun in it, but due to the recommendation of the distributor concerned lacking viewers, the title changed as "Sogongnyeo(A Little Princess)" named after so-called novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. (director Jeon Go-Woon said in one of Guest Visit event in Korean Film Archive)
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I feel like I'm rich now
... even though it's not my house.
The more I watch productions from regions whose culture hasn't been deeply influenced - until recently - by western culture, the more I'm undecided on my capacity to judge them. Had this movie been produced in Germany or the Uk I would have given it a 4-5 for its restrained gaze, farcical tone and not particularly original themes. But I'll give it a cosmopolitan benefit of the doubt.
The film shows how willing people are to settle for less than ideal socio-economic bargains, just for inexperience or social pressures, actually ruining their lifes. And how outsiders are dissed, blamed and ultimately discriminated (though the movie doesn't show that much) for their choices.
Unfortunately the film feels a little too surreal to my eyes: things seem forcibly represented as cute and fine and often even comical where I'd expect struggling, drama and wounds. And while I guess that may well be my bias towards realism, the result is that overall the production fell a little flat.
The conclusion too left me cold: a more direct collision against hypocrisy and conformism would have made everything more meaningful. Instead we are left believing that outsiders aren't going to get crushed by the rest of society and will do just fine.
A cute little fell-good movie whose social critique doesn't really hit... unless OFC the purpose wasn't hitting in the first place but a more gentle reproach.
The more I watch productions from regions whose culture hasn't been deeply influenced - until recently - by western culture, the more I'm undecided on my capacity to judge them. Had this movie been produced in Germany or the Uk I would have given it a 4-5 for its restrained gaze, farcical tone and not particularly original themes. But I'll give it a cosmopolitan benefit of the doubt.
The film shows how willing people are to settle for less than ideal socio-economic bargains, just for inexperience or social pressures, actually ruining their lifes. And how outsiders are dissed, blamed and ultimately discriminated (though the movie doesn't show that much) for their choices.
Unfortunately the film feels a little too surreal to my eyes: things seem forcibly represented as cute and fine and often even comical where I'd expect struggling, drama and wounds. And while I guess that may well be my bias towards realism, the result is that overall the production fell a little flat.
The conclusion too left me cold: a more direct collision against hypocrisy and conformism would have made everything more meaningful. Instead we are left believing that outsiders aren't going to get crushed by the rest of society and will do just fine.
A cute little fell-good movie whose social critique doesn't really hit... unless OFC the purpose wasn't hitting in the first place but a more gentle reproach.
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- Apr 10, 2022
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- Gross worldwide
- $424,025
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
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