Southbound

Lee Song-hee
Kim Jae-hyung, Sin-hwan Jeon
2012
South Korea
Completed
Korean
45 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known as남쪽으로 간다,is aSouth KoreaProducerwomen sex,At2012Released in year
。The dialogue language isKorean,Current Douban rating7.3(For reference only)。
Officer Jun-young (전신환) and soldier Ki-tae (김재흥) were once lovers during their military service. After Jun-young's early discharge, he begins to try to integrate into mainstream society and has a girlfriend. Their correspondence changes from passionate to bland over time. Ki-tae uses his last vacation from service to search for Jun-young, hoping to fulfill their promise from years ago: to go south together. To get Jun-young on the road, he secretly puts sleeping pills in his drink. Thus, a car carries the deserter and his sleeping lover quietly south, accompanied by the endless lotus leaves, the summer cicadas, and the ever-changing new greenery along the way... With "No Regrets," Lee Song-hee emerged as a focal figure in Korean independent cinema and stated that "Southbound" primarily speaks about the boundary between homosexuality and heterosexuality. He believes that many people's sexual orientations are opportunistic depending on circumstances, but society demands that people's desires conform to expectations, causing many to suffer from a lack of acceptance. "Southbound," along with "Suddenly, Last Summer" and "White Nights," forms Lee Song-hee's three-part series on the pain of queer love, dubbed the “Two Days and One Night” trilogy.