'Dear Jinri,' which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival, revolves around singing star Sulli's last Netflix project, an unfinished film that included an in-depth interview.
BUSAN -- A new documentary featuring a late K-pop star's final interview unveils complex truths about South Korea's notoriously brutal music industry while highlighting her defiance of pressure to conform to societal norms.
What Sulli shares in that conversation raises "many critical issues in our society," director Jung Yoon-suk said after the film's BIFF screening Saturday evening. Known for behavior considered controversial in South Korea -- including refusing to wear a bra in public -- she faced relentless online bullying and was frequently targeted by sexually abusive comments.
She likens her experience to that of the protagonist in Luc Besson's 1990 "La Femme Nikita," who undergoes rigorous and vicious training to become a programmed assassin, completely cut off from the outside world.The interview is punctuated by frequent pauses as the camera lingers silently on its subject, the pain and sorrow palpable on her face.Suicide is the leading cause of death among South Koreans aged 10 to 39 and occurs at an unusually high rate, official figures show.
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