Young-Chan has been deaf and blind since childhood. As he puts it himself, “In the beginning there was darkness and silence, and the darkness and silence were with god. And when ‘I’ arrived, they came to me.” Young-Chan has no idea how to participate in the world until he meets Soon-Ho, who also has a physical handicap. He marries her and learns to communicate with the outside world through her. By softly tapping each other’s finger, they can understand one another; it is sometimes as if they are tenderly playing a piano. This documentary follows the couple in the... same gentle tempo as Young-Chan moves through his life. We see them replacing a lightbulb together, receiving friends, working on a theatre piece, reading a book, and gliding on a sleigh down a mountain. These everyday scenes are accompanied by a poetic voice-over by Young-Chan, in which he reflects on his existence without sight and hearing. He feels like an astronaut, but that doesn’t mean he is without a sense of beauty in the world. This becomes palpable when Young-Chan touches the bark of a tree, runs his hand through sand, or brushes raindrops on a window pane with his fingertips. [show more]
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Korean documentary about the experiences in life and love of a deaf-blind man. Young-Chan describes himself as coming from the Planet of Snail, a reference to the way he experiences the world almost entirely through the sense of touch. When he meets his wife and soulmate, Soon-Ho, his world opens up as she becomes his eyes and ears and teaches him to read using Braille. But Soon-Ho has problems of her own in the form of a severe spinal disability, and as time goes by they must both come to terms with the fact that Soon-Ho may not always be there for Young-Chan.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Young-Chan has been deaf and blind since childhood. As he puts it himself, "In the beginning there was darkness and silence, and the darkness and silence were with god. And when 'I' arrived, they came to me." Young-Chan has no idea how to participate in the world until he meets Soon-Ho, who also has a physical handicap. He marries her and learns to communicate with the outside world through her. By softly tapping each other's finger, they can understand one another; it is sometimes as if they are tenderly playing a piano. This documentary follows the couple in the same gentle tempo as Young-Chan moves through his life. We see them replacing a lightbulb together, receiving friends, working on a theatre piece, reading a book, and gliding on a sleigh down a mountain. These everyday scenes are accompanied by a poetic voice-over by Young-Chan, in which he reflects on his existence without sight and hearing. He feels like an astronaut, but that doesn't mean he is without a sense of beauty in the world. This becomes palpable when Young-Chan touches the bark of a tree, runs his hand through sand, or brushes raindrops on a window pane with his fingertips. Actors Young-Chan & Soon-Ho Director James Eves, Pat Higgins & Alan Ronald Certificate Exempt from Classification Year 2012 Languages Korean Subtitles English Duration 1 hour and 27 minutes (approx)
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