KF뉴스레터-[KF Culture Walk] Movie Recommendation by Program Officer Kim Jiwon, Future Innovation Department ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (2012)

[KF Culture Walk] Movie Recommendation by Program Officer Kim Jiwon, Future Innovation Department ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (2012)

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[KF Culture Walk]Movie Recommendation by Program Officer Kim Jiwon, Future InnovationDepartment‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (2012)

‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (2012)
Director: David O.Russell
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, BradleyCooper, Robert De Niro

Silver Linings Playbook is a comedy by genre, but it evolvesinto a feel-good drama that shows viewers how to heal the scars leftby life. The film begins when Pat, fresh from a stint in a mentalinstitution to which he was admitted after witnessing his wife’sinfidelity, meets Tiffany, an unstable woman who lost her husband inan accident. The two, having both lost the loves of their lives, healeach other’s wounds by means of dancing.

Six decades have passed since the 1960s, but racial discrimination hasyet to disappear as evidenced by the death of George Floyd in theUnited States last year and the indiscriminate assault of a KoreanAmerican man in his 20s in LA’s Koreatown a short while ago. However,if we do not give in to discrimination and prejudice and instead standtall as bravely as the women of Hidden Figures do, the world we livein will become warmer and safer than it is now. I recommend this moviewith such hopeful expectations in mind.

Not only Pat and Tiffany but other people around them have untoldpains and problems. Pat’s father is a bookmaker in the grip of anobsession. Pat’s friend Ronnie seethes over his wife’s controllingnature but doesn’t let his emotions show. In these characters, themovie suggests that each one of us has their own problems that we hideor struggle to ignore as we continue through life.

At a time like now, when everyone is struggling with the COVID-19pandemic, we need time to look into ourselves and identify the hiddenpains that we may be suffering from without even realizing it. Irecommend this movie in the hope that, like Tiffany and Pat, we willdiscover our own “silver linings,” no matter how clumsy and awkward weare in finding them.

Written by Kim Jiwon, Program Officer, Future Innovation Department

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