This week I attended the Friday Night Film series for the first time. I thought it would be a fun experience going with my friends and watching a movie that I had never heard of before. The movie I watched was A State of Mind. This was a documentary about two young gymnasts who were preparing for the Korean Mass Games. The movie was different than what I expected but I did enjoy parts of it.
I had never heard of the Korean Mass Games before this documentary but after watching it, I realized the Korean Mass Games relate to the Olympic pre show before the actual games started. The documentary was based around communism and the training of the gymnasts. The main two girls of the documentary were two young gymnasts who were the best gymnasts in training. The first gymnast, Song Yun Kim, talked about how she takes great pride in training hard in order to perform for the General. Training for these games take up to a year and sometimes even longer. The second gymnast, Hyon Sun Pak, is younger than Song Yun Kim and she helps train the other gymnasts.
As I watched the documentary I was interested in how the documentary was focused. There were two main focuses: Communism and gymnastics. The Koreans who were interviewed in the documentary were against America’s involvement in Iraq and they all stated how they wish the U.S. would stay out of their way. They take great pride in their General and in communism. It is amazing how we, Americans, think our country is the greatest and take pride in all of our rights and freedoms yet the Koreans take pride in their communist ways. They prefer their ways of living to ours. I never considered the thoughts of the other people who would think of the American involvement in their political affairs as a bad thing.
When the documentary focused on the actual training for the gymnastics routines, I was amazed with how different their version of gymnastics is to the U.S. version. They didn’t do anything dealing with vaults or balance beams, but they focused more on the dance version of gymnastics. When they show the mass games, I was amazed with how all the hard work they put into training paid off. Each costume and color symbolized something dealing with the history of Korea. They used objects and dance moves to show off the beauty of gymnastics. I loved the documentary and the artistry shown in it. It was a great documentary and I would definitely watch it again.
I had never heard of the Korean Mass Games before this documentary but after watching it, I realized the Korean Mass Games relate to the Olympic pre show before the actual games started. The documentary was based around communism and the training of the gymnasts. The main two girls of the documentary were two young gymnasts who were the best gymnasts in training. The first gymnast, Song Yun Kim, talked about how she takes great pride in training hard in order to perform for the General. Training for these games take up to a year and sometimes even longer. The second gymnast, Hyon Sun Pak, is younger than Song Yun Kim and she helps train the other gymnasts.
As I watched the documentary I was interested in how the documentary was focused. There were two main focuses: Communism and gymnastics. The Koreans who were interviewed in the documentary were against America’s involvement in Iraq and they all stated how they wish the U.S. would stay out of their way. They take great pride in their General and in communism. It is amazing how we, Americans, think our country is the greatest and take pride in all of our rights and freedoms yet the Koreans take pride in their communist ways. They prefer their ways of living to ours. I never considered the thoughts of the other people who would think of the American involvement in their political affairs as a bad thing.
When the documentary focused on the actual training for the gymnastics routines, I was amazed with how different their version of gymnastics is to the U.S. version. They didn’t do anything dealing with vaults or balance beams, but they focused more on the dance version of gymnastics. When they show the mass games, I was amazed with how all the hard work they put into training paid off. Each costume and color symbolized something dealing with the history of Korea. They used objects and dance moves to show off the beauty of gymnastics. I loved the documentary and the artistry shown in it. It was a great documentary and I would definitely watch it again.
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