Most people spend their spare time to go to the theater. Movies are good entertainments - they are fun and delightful. They satisfy our desires as well as paralyze anguish of the real world. However, we feel bitter when we realize that the world in most movies like Hollywood blockbusters is not real and that we also can't be a hero and heroine who tide over adversary easily and finally get happiness.

Hong Sang-soo, the outstanding director in Korea film industries.
Film director Hong San-soo is very special. His movies like "Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Oh Soojeong)" and "Kangwondo's power" tell us about life honestly and unsophisticatedly- speaks of the real world and commons people's true life. Hong's 4th picture was released recently: "On Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate"(named in Korean as "find a life").
Kyong-soo (Kim Sang-kyong) is an unknown actor. He impulsively goes on a trip to Chunchon after casting of the next film was turned down. He meets Myong-suk (Ye Ji-won), a dancer there and happens to sleep with her. She says she loves him and he feels that it's a burden. He sees another woman, Sun-young (Chu Sang-mi) on the train on his way to hometown, Busan. He has curiosity about her and gets off in Kyongju following her. He spends one night stand with her. However, she is a married woman. After short sexes, she leaves him without saying goodbye. Kyong-soo turns his back on the gate of Sun-young's house's in thundering rain.
All the things in the movie are too mediocre and unpolished. Actors and actresses are not stylishly dressed and the scenes are ordinary that we easily find around us. Lines are not splendid but unrefined. It is so natural that you may think that you have heard or said these lines before.
Director Hong Sang-soo immediately wrote lines on the shooting spot starting to film with rough outline. It comes from real experiences of actors, actresses, Hong and his acquaintances. Hong improvised circumstances every morning on the shooting day and directed natural performances. He also made leading roles drunk when they act drinking scenes. And the film does not hears any background music unlike other movies but like actual life.

"Find a life" vs "Find an imitation"
You may wonder why the title is "Find a Life". After the cinema is going on, we can actually find a life: imitation. Hong wants to show us that our life tries to imitate others constantly in every nook of film. Kyong-soo repeats a sentence- "even though it is difficult to be a human but don't be a monster"-quoted from a director of his ex-film. He shakes his body when he drinks with Sung-young imitating his companys act once he hated. Kyong-soo implores Sun-young to love him like the way that Myong-suk did before. Myong-suk and Sun-young in different places leave him a same message. Kyong-soo sees same duck boat in Chunchon and Kyongju.
People say something like their own original idea but they were sometimes surprised that they imitate their neighbors. After watching "On Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate", we realize that our life resembles each other's, and that people imitate others unconsciously. This similarity moves us to an odd laugh.
We also take a close look of setting: Chunchon and Gyongju. These places are famous tourist attractions in Korea. When people make a journey, they dream an accident romance, getting out of routine. We wanted a trip like Kyong-soo's 6 night and 7 day trip at least once and may act and say like him. This probability has us arouse sympathy and add reality to the movie.
Our routine doesn't have an adequate, introduction, climax and conclusion as in a scenario and isn't funny, magnificent and dramatic. That is why we are charmed by Hong Sang-soo's "On Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate". Let's observe Kyong-soo, Myong-suk and Sun-young, you will find familiar life with yours.