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Young-mi An (also known as Yeong-mi Ahn, or Young-mi Ahn) was a surprise and delight in this playful story about Yoo Yang, a young Korean woman who suddenly finds herself unemployed following an alcohol-infused faux pax while dining out with co-workers and her boss.\u00a0 The story continues to build and evolve around her need for money and sustenance as she attempts her new dream job in a career as a free-lance writer.<\/p>\n
The lead, Young-mi Ahn, gets her comedic timing from her background as a stand-up comedienne, and also starred in the TV show Happy Together.\u00a0 <\/em>She was also a cast member of the variety show Real Men.<\/i><\/p>\n While food is an important story element, this is not<\/em> a story about food.\u00a0 The mouth-teasing film title may bring out the foodies like moths to a flame, but this is more of a romantic comedy, with food<\/em> as a lover.\u00a0 But that’s not to say there are no men in her life. Au contraire!\u00a0 <\/em>She is of the ‘Sampo’ generation, who gave up on three things; courtship, marriage, and childbirth.<\/p>\n It’s a fun film to watch with plenty of great laughs and a brisk pacing that keeps you engaged and entertained.\u00a0 Screenplay writing credit goes to Ok-soo-dong Dal-pil (\uc625\uc218\ub3d9\ub2ec\ud544).<\/p>\n The director, Lee Cheol-ha (\uc774\ucca0\ud558), comes from a background in TV commercial production and music videos.\u00a0 He trained at the Academy of Art University film school in San Fransisco.\u00a0 His credits include:<\/p>\n My only complaint with I Eat, Therefore I Am<\/em> was a lack of contrast with some of the subtitles in the beginning.\u00a0 I found them very hard to read, and a few were too difficult to get through before the next scene arrived.\u00a0 The problem seemed to resolve itself within a few minutes as the story progressed so either they found more background contrast, or my eyes finally adapted. A drop shadow font could have remedied this problem nicely.<\/p>\n Four stars.\u00a0 I am eagerly awaiting a theatrical or DVD release of I Eat, Therefore I Am<\/em> so that my other friends can enjoy it, and I’ll be looking for the bright Young-mi An in future films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by Wayne Derossett.\u00a0 Viewed at the 2016 Santa Barbara Film Festival, Wednesday, February 10 at 6:00:00 PM in the Metro 4 theater. This was the U.S. premier of I Eat, Therefore I Am.\u00a0 This film is also known by the Korean title Eating Existence (2015) or \uba39\ub294 \uc874\uc7ac (meok-neun jun-jae). Young-mi An (also known […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,272],"tags":[171,277],"class_list":["post-35350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2016","tag-santa-barbara-international-film-festival","tag-young-mi-an"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/81291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hancinema.net\/photos\/photo655656.jpg\")
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