Summertime (2001 film)

Summertime
Summertime
Korean name
Hangul	썸머타임
Revised Romanization	Sseommeotaim
McCune–Reischauer	Ssŏmmŏtaim
Directed by	Park Jae-ho
Written by	Yu Gap-yeol
Based on	Scorpio Nights; by Peque Gallaga
Produced by	Cha Seung-jae
Starring	Ryu Soo-young; Kim Ji-hyun
Cinematography	Shin Hyun-joong
Edited by	Park Soon-duk
Music by	Um In-ho
Release date	May 26, 2001;
Running time	103 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

Summertime (Korean: 썸머타임; RR: Sseommeotaim) is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Park Jae-ho and starring Ryu Soo-young and Kim Ji-hyun. A remake of the controversial Philippine film Scorpio Nights (1985), the film was also inspired by the Gwangju massacre.^[1]^[2]

Plot[edit]

Set in the 1980s, Sang-ho is a student activist hiding out in a small rural village. He accidentally witnesses, through a hole on the floor of his second story room, a married couple having sex. He discovers he is a voyeur at heart and becomes bolder and bolder in his actions. One day, he gets an opportunity to play out his fantasies. When the husband is not home, Sang-ho goes downstairs. Imitating the husband's manner of foreplay even down to the sequence, the young man has sex with the wife. She, like Sang-ho, is a prisoner of the house. The second time he comes to her, he touches her in a different way which makes her turn around and discover that there is a stranger in her bed. But this does not deter her as she reaches out to him for an intense embrace. The husband, Tae-yeol, is an ex-policeman fired for alleged corruption, and his wife Hee-ran, who was raped by him as a young girl, for the sake of status quo has ended up as his wife and prisoner.

Cast[edit]

Ryu Soo-young as Sang-ho
Kim Ji-hyun as Hee-ran
Choi Cheol-ho as Tae-yeol
Song Ok-sook as Gi-ok
Bae Jeong-yun as Young-mi
Choi Seong-min
Yun Yeong-keol
Jang Seong-won
Kim Seon-hwa
Lee Seung-hun
Ahn Byeong-kyeong
Park Hoon-jung as child in the playground

References[edit]

^ "Summer Time (2001) Movie Review". Beyond Hollywood. 26 January 2003. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
^ "Voyeurism, politics and desire in Summer Time". The Korea Times via Hancinema. 25 March 2004. Retrieved 2013-05-28.

External links[edit]

Summertime at the Korean Movie Database
Summertime at IMDb
Summertime at HanCinema

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[1] "Summer Time (2001) Movie Review". Beyond Hollywood. 26 January 2003. Retrieved 2011-02-03.

[2] "Voyeurism, politics and desire in Summer Time". The Korea Times via Hancinema. 25 March 2004. Retrieved 2013-05-28.

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