The wounded live upon the ruins. Yeong-gyeong and Su-hwan. They walk the streets, take the subway, and return home, with the fatal daggers hidden in their pockets. They are the people of the Sewol Ferry disaster [the controversial sinking of a ferry in South Korea in 2014, which cost the lives of 304 people, around 250 among them high school students, ed.] and the Itaewon tragedy [a crowd crush during Halloween festivities in the Itaewon district of Soul, leaving 159 people dead, ed.]. Will the film, a record of such wounded people living in the ruins, be seen as art?
Yeong-gyeong and Su-hwan in SPRING NIGHT are Homo Sacers, sacred and cursed outsiders. Alive but worthless and abandoned, unfit even for sacrifice to God, a non-existence that must not be permitted into the community. Two such outcasts love each other, but it is a ′miserable love′ that cannot be called pure or noble. This film attempts to depict such a ‘miserable love.’
Kang Mi-ja
