A State of Mind Page #4

Synopsis: A British documentary that follows two young North Korean girls as they prepare for the Mass Games, the world's largest choreographed gymnastics performance.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Daniel Gordon
Production: Kino International
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
Year:
2004
93 min
Website
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Time!

Kim Song Yon

Please hurry up, you're going

to be late for school.

Kim Song Yon is eleven years old and

has performed in two Mass Games.

Her family is from the Intellectual Class.

Her father is a Physics Lecturer at

Kim II Sung University.

Her mother is a housewife.

She has two older sisters, one is

fifteen and a high school student

the eldest is 18, a high school graduate

who will shortly be joining the Army.

Song Yon's sisters have a room each

her parents sleep on the lounge floor.

Song Yon sleeps in a different sister's

room each night.

Song Yon!

Yes?

Come here.

What's up?

Come here quickly!

Come quickly

Why did you eat so little?

Because I didn't want to eat...

You should eat a lot and try to

make your body strong.

You shouldn't eat little, should you?

I'll eat a lot from tomorrow.

Eat more, yes?

Have you packed my gym uniform?

Yes.

I'm going.

Did you put a spoon in for my lunch?

Yes.

Hyon Sun is the best gymnast for

her age and discipline.

As group leader, she is expected to

help improve the skills of others.

When I firstjoined the Mass Games club...

...and looked at the children

practicing their movements...

...I thought Song Yon's techniques

weren't so good.

So I helped her improve techniques a bit...

...and taught her movements one by one.

After that, since we lived near each other...

...we hung around together...

...and taught movements and played together.

Isn't spinning around coming at the end?

"Two turns!"

"After doing like this..."

"Two turns!"

"And After doing that?"

After doing this...

Hyon Sun performed better than me...

...and she could do more skilful moves.

So I learned them from her

and got used to those movements.

Since we both loved Mass Games

we got on well.

Since then, we have become closer.

When I come home from school...

...I have no one to play with and it's boring.

Once I went to Song Yon's house.

Her two elder sisters were there...

...and Song Yon was there too.

So we played the accordion, the guitar

and the violin together.

Afterwards, I went home and there

was no-one there,

It was really quiet.

I hate being at our house.

I wish I had lots of brothers and sisters.

When I was young, I hated life in

groups and organisations...

...so I would run away

From the time I went up to middle school...

I started going to school in the mornings...

...and to club in the afternoons.

There were many girls at the club

much older than me.

The older girls would insult us

whenever they were in charge.

They'd say we weren't good enough.

My only thoughts were to keep running away.

I developed my skills and got put

on the list of names...

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