Today (19th), the movie "Golden Video Store" directed by David Redmond and Ashley Sabin was released exclusively on the National Art Film Screening Alliance, and the ultimate poster was released at the same time to pay tribute to the spirit of the film. The film was nominated for the Future Innovation Award at the 39th Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. During last year's screening at the Beijing Film Festival, it was a sell-out success, and the audience even burst into applause three times after the screening. The film currently has a high score of 8.7 on Douban platform.
"Kim's Video Store" tells the untold story behind a video rental store in New York. Kim Young-man, a young Korean man with a dream, opened a video store in New York City by chance. The disc rental business continued to grow. Boss Kim also began to search for rare movie discs around the world and provided more than 55,000 in the video store. Movie disc. With the rise of digital media, Jin's video store continued to give way to emerging media such as Netflix, and finally decided to donate all the discs in the store. However, these precious DVDs were accidentally involved in a political conspiracy and ended up being piled up in an abandoned warehouse in Sicily. The ultimate poster of
staggers, stacks, and collages multiple classic movie scenes appearing in the movie. One video tape after another witnesses the history of movies, and at the same time, it also witnesses the history of mankind.
The form of the ultimate poster also caters to the almost "movie collage" recording format used by the director in the film. In the film, the director uses movies to ask questions and answers using movies. The camera records Mr. Jin's love and record of movies in the movie. The director's obsession with movies. At the same time, it has also entered the hearts of the moviegoers, transforming into the purest love and pursuit of movies.
"The movie renders a wonderful kind of heroism that belongs to movie fans." Some fans commented on this movie. Compared with a real documentary, this movie seems more like a "superhero movie" tailor-made for movie fans. Only a person who truly loves movies can make such an action that ordinary people think is unbelievable like David. David's longing for the movie summoned the soul of the movie, and real movie fans can also immersively summon their inner passion during the movie watching process, follow David into the movie, and rescue those movie discs that have been ignored , Save the soul of the movie that has nowhere to rest.
Movies are proof of existence and the collective memory of people belonging to different eras. When more and more people are willing to go into the cinema to enjoy a movie immersively, the meaning of the movie is truly realized at this moment. As long as human history is immortal, Jin's video store can survive forever. What it survives is not only the physical form of audio and video tapes, but also the spirit of movies that will never be extinguished.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
editor/Gong Lifang
