20 billion won in completion made from 200 million won...Park Jung-min's new face with no intention of resting (comprehensive)
Sep 11, 2025
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In fact, everything has changed since the pandemic. The ultra-luxury blockbuster that led to the golden age of Korean movies and the Renaissance has disappeared, and the enthusiastic audience has no intention of returning. To be precise, it is safe to say that a Korean movie, which was drunk on a brilliant bubble, was helplessly destroyed by the harsh reality of facing it without preparation. The present situation of Korean movies, which entered the war of destruction, is full of wailing sounds. To escape this, director Yeon Sang-ho and Park Jung-min came out with an incredibly low-budget movie to break through the clogged blood of Korean movies. It's the first time in a long time that an art buster has met that leaves a 'difficult'.
The mystery film 'Face' (directed by Yeon Sang-ho and produced by Wow Point) was unveiled at a media preview held at Megabox COEX in Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 10th, a day before its release. Invited to the special presentation section of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, 'Face' was forced to reveal the film's face a day before its release due to rules that required it to be released as the world's first world premiere at the festival, and fortunately, it received more enthusiastic responses than expected.
Here's the story of 'face' that bothered me. Lim Young-kyu (Park Jung-min, Kwon Hae-hyo), a man with a blind disability since birth, worked hard to escape the contempt and humiliation of people and was praised by everyone when he was reborn as a master of the field. Lim Young-kyu, a blind man who was called the 'living legend' of Korea, had a son, Lim Dong-hwan (Park Jung-min), who closely resembled his youth.
While filming a promotional documentary to make it easier and safer to pass on the Cheongpung pavilion of the workshop he has worked hard on to his only son, he hears unexpected news. The body of Jeong Yeong-hee (Shin Hyun-bin), his wife who disappeared 40 years ago, has been found. His son Lim Dong-hwan, who learned the news of his mother, who abandoned his newborn dwarf and his father with disabilities, is just embarrassed. To make matters worse, Lim Dong-hwan, who was belatedly paying for his mother's funeral, was visited by his mother's unni, who was like a monsterThe rudeness of those who speak of their mother's face makes them angry, and at the same time, as curiosity about their mother grows, they increasingly face the incredible shocking events of the day.
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Moreover, 'Face' is all the more meaningful because it is a film made with a very small number of actors and producers called 'Yon Sang-ho Division', with only two weeks of pre-production, 13th filming, and a very low budget production cost of 200 million won. It is a project that opened new possibilities and breakthroughs in Korean movies in crisis, which have taken great risks by focusing on blockbusters completed with high budget production costs exceeding 20 billion won.
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Kwon Hae-hyo's stable support, which shared the feelings of Park Jung-min and Lim Young-gyu, was also perfect. Kwon Hae-hyo, who showed a three-dimensional face with various characters ranging from good to bad, shows off her heavy power as the basis for firmly establishing Lim Young-gyu's character that moves between the past and the present. The tearful efforts of Shin Hyun-bin, who took on the toughest challenge in the `face,' should also not be missed. Shin Hyun-bin made a bold attempt to not reveal his face even in a single scene in 'face'. Jung Young-hee has completed faceless Jung Young-hee with all body acts except for the face, including cringe shoulders, turtle neck, rough hands, and uncomfortable voices. Shin Hyun-bin, who lost his face, the most powerful force as an actor, became the most powerful person leading the mystery of the whole movie. Shin Hyun-bin's best career and life character that he will never forget for the rest of his life, so he is confident.
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As such, 'face' provides a different 'dimensional' attraction from the popcorn movie that burns lightly when you leave the theater door. Attention is focusing on whether it will remain a good example of a Korean movie that showed completeness of 20 billion won with 200 million won.
Meanwhile, 'Face' will be released today (11th).
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