Ho Kim

Read the book a few years ago and was blown away by how the author accurately depicted the historical background and the lives of zainich. As a few folks indicated, the timeline jumps around quite a bit and maybe difficult to understand unless you have read the book (hence my 4 stars :-) ). Amazing job in creating the sets / scenery as most of the surroundings were exactly how I visualized while reading the book (I actually "visualized" a Korean actor Cho, Jin-Woong as Hansu not Lee, Min-ho). A bit unfortunate that most non-Korean / Japanese viewers would not be able to appreciate the usage of Busan (Korea) and Kansai / Osaka (Japan) dialects which adds a bit more flavor to the dialogs - Jin Ha's Osaka-ben is pretty good (I initially thought his Japanese voice was dubbed).

I highly anticipated this film being release but a mediocre film (most were pointed out already by others): 1. Loosely strung together scenes - was anticipating more behind-the-scenes, personal footages vs. racing highlights (e.g., how he was able to rebuild Ferrari as a team, not just "oh Schumi stayed late, was caring and a good leader" 2. I would imagine most of the viewers are racing fans and most of the info, if not all, are already well-known to racing fans 3. Delving a bit more details around his "selfishness" (right, wrong or indifferent) would have been interesting - e.g., smiling / celebrating on the podium in Monza after Senna's death, "parking" his car during qualifying in Monaco - was interesting to hear Damon H basically saying "I may have done the same, if I was leading the championship" 4. No interviews with JPM? :-) Not sure the filmmaker had enough personal footages, etc but (as someone pointed out) the older Senna certainly had more insights and seemed more like a documentary vs. racing highlights.