Columbus Comments

  • Melissa 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    Regarding "building", using buildings to link characters, texts, and images is worth watching and discussing...

  • Ima 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    Architecture is a metaphor for two parallel lonely souls, too much stream of...

  • Jasen 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    When I was watching it, I thought of a lyric, "Maybe only you know me, so you didn't escape." As a fan of classicism, I always think that modernity means loss of divinity, meaning lost and stuck, the two people in the film , which just confirms my "prejudice" about modernity. Interestingly, the buildings that take up a lot of space in the film always try to convince me with the poetry of modernity that unlimited freedom can also grow in a limited...

  • Kole 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    Many times, human life and feelings are not as eternal and frozen as architecture, and their changes and even disappearance cannot be...

  • Briana 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    Obsessive-compulsive disorder + frigidity is very popular with me, but I actually watched it at a semi-pheasant film festival, what the...

  • Lesley 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    The architectural space of Columbus can be the presence and response of the father, or the becoming-architecture and spiritual externalization. Through the extension of the sixth extension area by empty mirrors and mirror images, the dialogue is transformed into the language of the building itself. In terms of composition, the off-center modernism is just like Antonioni, but the empty mirrors at the end of "Father is in critical condition", which are replaced by the behavior of the two sides,...

  • Floy 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    There are still few buildings so dazzling yet so plain that they occupy the center of the film, from being a passive space container that carries activities and emotions, and finally turning into an active healer that heals the heart. The relationship between architecture and people, the confrontation between modernism and religion, the conflict between Asian Confucian ethics and the supremacy of Western individualism, and, of course, the age-old intergenerational issues within the family all...

  • Georgianna 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    It's hard not to think of Tati's Playtime, where the building no longer serves as a backdrop, but is integrated into the story through a deep focus lens. But can it really heal the lost? I think no, these icy modernist buildings just tear them apart. They stand here year after year, but those who are left behind and those who cannot leave will one day understand that they are not buildings, they heal each other, move and place their places in...

  • Christy 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    (my) first attempt...

  • Roger 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    The imagery is thoughtful, but the film feels...

Extended Reading
  • Gracie 2022-04-10 09:01:08

    a fragment

    A clip: Casey takes Kim on a tour of what she believes to be "the second-most building in Columbus."

    “It was the first modernist bank in America, imagine a bank made entirely of glass was rare at the time. It was also very pioneering, because the banks designed in that era were spectacular, like...

  • Yolanda 2022-04-05 08:01:01

    Watch "In Columbus" in Columbus

    Some words from the front: This film review is destined to be a bad film review, because if I didn't happen to live in Columbus, I might be reluctant to spend $6 to see a small town sightseeing film with a dull plot. But since it's a story set around you, you can't help but want to see what's going...

Columbus quotes

  • [Jin and Casey sit on the entrance steps of the Columbus City Hall]

    Jin: I think this is what my dad was referring to.

    Casey: That?

    Jin: Yes.

    Casey: Hm.

    Jin: If it's not, I'm gonna say that it is.

  • Jin: [translating his father's manuscript in Korean] It says, "Effort plus cost," uh, "to see what is invisible and always visible." No, "omni-visible." No, "always visible." "Always visible."

    Casey: Wow. I should ask Gabe at work. He's really into these kind of riddles.

    Jin: Yes. Yes, what the fuck? My father was always trying to be so profound. Why wouldn't he just write the name down or draw a better picture?

    Casey: Well, I didn't think he thought someone was ever going to read this. He probably knew exactly what he meant.

    Jin: Still fucking annoying.

Columbus

Director: Kogonada

Language: English,Korean Release date: August 4, 2017