SOUNDTRACK: KIM JUNG MI-“The Sun” (1973).
This song, along with a few other unexpected tracks accompany the score for The Double which was composed by Andrew Hewitt. Kim Jung Mi is a South Korean singer (singing in Korean) and this track is hers from the 1970s.
Interestingly, the melody is conventionally Western (played on acoustic guitars), but as I said the vocals are all in Korean. The song has a 70s folk (with orchestra) feel, and while there are a lot of Westernisms about the song, it still sounds “foreign.”
The song is pretty and eventually builds to adding some strings. However at nearly 7 minutes without a lot of change (lots of La La Las, maybe like “Hey Jude”?), it’s a bit (well, a lot) too long.
[READ: June 13, 2014] The Double
I saw this book at work and immediately grabbed it because I love Richard Ayoade (Moss on The IT Crowd). I didn’t even know what this was, I just had to see it. Then I saw that it was that it a play and I was intrigued, especially when I saw that Chris O’Dowd (also from The IT Crowd) was in it.
Then I read the introductions by Korine and Ayoade and learned that this is actually a film. When I looked online I saw that it opened in limited release last week. Holy cow! The film stars Jessee Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska and also features Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor and J Mascis (as a janitor).
The story is based on Dostoevsky’s short story “The Double” (so you know it’s not especially cheery). And, although I assumed it would still be funny (given Ayoade’s credentials), it is not as funny (at least in print) as one might expect. The other weird thing was that I kept picturing Moss as the lead character (some lines seem very Moss-like), so should I ever see this it will be weird to hear the lines coming from Eisenberg. (more…)
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