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Michigan Technological University Mail    Faith Morrison <fmorriso@mtu.edu>
Movie this Wednesday: Minari
Tomas Co <tbco@mtu.edu>    Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 12:49 PM
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Hello everyone,

Happy 4th of July!

We are easing our way back to face-to-face film showing.  In order to be cautious about the delta-variant COVID, we would like to invite those who are fully vaccinated to join us for this Wednesday's showing.

This Wednesday, we are showing an American movie "Minari" directed by Lee Isaac Chung
(more details below).

Hope you can join us.

Regards,

Tom Co

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Title: Minari

Date and Time: Wednesday, July 7, 6:30-9

Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock

Director: Lee Isaac Chung

Partial List of Characters:
    Steven Yeun
    Esther Moon
    Yeri Han
    Alan S. Kim
    Yuh-Jung Youn
    Noel Cho
    Will Patton
    Darryl Cox

US Rating: PG13

Language: Korean and English (with English subtitles)

Length: 115 mins

Summary: (by Nick Riganas from www.imdb.com)

"Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, ...Jacob Yi relocates his Korean-American family...from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream. ..."


My Comments:

A well-made and well acted movie, it is about the struggle of a family towards the pursuit of a dream.  As usual, there is often a debate about shared values within a family and under what conditions are sacrifices reasonable or expected.  The pace may be slow for some, but I thought it was good.

I have always been impressed by farmers and farming life...because I think it is a very difficult and dignified way of life (except for illegal - for me)...but I don't think I have theHello everyone,

Happy 4th of July!

We are easing our way back to face-to-face film showing.  In order to be cautious about the delta-variant COVID, we would like to invite those who are fully vaccinated to join us for this wednesday's showing.

For this wednesday, we are showing an American movie "Minari" directed by Lee Isaac Chung
(more details below).

Hope you can join us.

Regards,

Tom Co

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Title: Minari

Date and Time: Wednesday, 6:30-9

Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock

Director: Lee Isaac Chung

Partial List of Characters:

Steven Yeun
Esther Moon
Yeri Han
Alan S. Kim
Yuh-Jung Youn
Noel Cho
Will Patton
Darryl Cox

US Rating: PG13

Language: Korean and English (with English subtitles)

Length: 115 mins

Summary: (by Nick Riganas from www.imdb.com)

"Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, ...Jacob Yi relocates his Korean-American family...from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream. ..."


My Comments:

A well-made and well acted movie, it is about the struggle of a family towards the pursuit of a dream.  As usual, there is often a debate about shared values within a family and under what conditions are sacrifices reasonable or expected.  The pace may be slow for some, but I thought it was good.

I have always been impressed by farmers and farming life...because I think it is a very difficult and dignified way of life (except for those growing illegal plants)...but I don't think I have the fortitude of a farmer.  My hat is off to these folks.

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