Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 593

“What do you think the young master thought when he saw the hill that was emptied by the fire nine years ago?”

-Of course… it was 1910.

-I should have noticed it when it was vaguely nine years ago

“Yes. 1910. The year when the country was taken away by Japan. He must have thought of that day. Especially when Minhan said that there would be no more days when flowers would bloom.”

-In literature, flowers and spring usually mean independence.

-Minhan: There will be no more independence…

-Minhan…

-Don’t translate! It’s a spoiler!!

“But it still doesn’t have a big meaning yet. Time passes, and the peddler comes with a letter. When the peddler doesn’t say anything, I wonder if it’s the aftereffect of torture.”

-Peddler

-Just think of everyone who appears here as independence activists with different jobs

The audience nodded as if they agreed.

“Let’s talk about the two letters. The first letter that arrived had a death notice. It was the death of Gojong.”

-He must have been shocked.

-22 He was important until then.

-33 The adults were influenced by Joseon.

-There was also a rumor that Japan and the pro-Japanese faction assassinated him.

-They didn’t even hold a proper funeral.

“There must have been many reasons, but Gojong’s sudden death brought a great shock. The young master locked himself in his room, and Lee and Goseongdaek, who had experienced many frustrations and failures, moved busily to get out of this shock. Then, another letter arrives.”

-The provisional declaration of independence arrives!

-Minhan can’t read it!

The audience and the viewers laughed softly at the comment that changed the mood.

“When the provisional declaration of independence first appeared, I thought it was after the March 1st Movement, but I realized it wasn’t yet when Lee said it was a ‘draft’.”

-It was mid or late February because Japan’s story also came out?

– It seems like the February 8th Declaration.

-Those students are amazing

“Yes. It was still February. The people who were shocked by Gojong’s death started to move again. The young master, Lee, and Goseongdaek also regained hope and cheered up. The young master also promised Minhan, who was disappointed, that he would tell him everything when the day came.”

-Drawing is so sad

-He kept trying even though his hand was losing strength.

-He also drew the sunset

-22 After hearing that he was afraid of the light in front, it felt different

-But the crisis always comes at times like this.

“Yes. That’s right. On a rainy night. Goseongdaek wakes up Minhan. Unlike Minhan, who was confused, Goseongdaek and the young master looked familiar.”

-How many times have they been chased?

-It seems like the agents came here because they were nervous about the February 8th Declaration and the preparation for the March 1st Movement.

-I really watched it with sweaty palms.

“I did too. The agents didn’t show a single hair, but it was a tense scene. The music that matched the rain also added to the tension. It was an original song made by a student of Hanye University. And he’s only 17 years old.”

-Ooooh. Amazing. Did he enter early?

-Violinist Kwon Se-ah! I wondered why he didn’t have a concert, but maybe he was studying composition.

-He’s a violinist… He’s also good at composing!

-There was an article. It seems like he will be active in the movie music field in the future.

“Although it wasn’t accurate information, the agents left with Lee’s threat. Lee said, ‘The owner of this mansion is a Westerner, can they just come in as they please?’ It was a line that reminded me of the historical situation where they had to rely on the power of the West.”

-…So that’s why it’s a Western-style mansion.

-I guess so.

-There were actually many foreigners who helped with the independence. The owner here seems to be one of them.

-The owner is a good person

“That’s how the agents left and the three people promised Minhan with a brighter face than ever that they would tell him everything when the March 1st Movement succeeded and they became independent.”

-But they failed

-Even if they succeededthey wouldn’t have been independent.

-The people back then were too naive

-They believed in national self-determination.

-22 The announcement was made by the US president, so they trusted him more. Because he was a powerful country.

-It’s still like that.

-33 Japan was a victorious country, so they didn’t know that we didn’t apply

The audience smiled bitterly at the viewers who were sorry.

“A letter arrived to announce the failure of the March 1st Movement. The young master, who had not been in the independence movement for long, locked himself in his room again, and Lee and Goseongdaek, who had gone through many setbacks and failures, soon got up and prepared to welcome the guests.”

-Guests

-They are the ones who were injured in the March 1st Movement

-Ah, so that’s why Minhan cleaned the room.

“Yes. It was a foreshadowing that the injured independence activists would come again. While doing that, Minhan heard that his benefactor had died. It was a shocking news for Minhan, who had been waiting for the day to meet him again.”

-I thought he would.

-22 He was an independence activist if he came as a guest

-The person who showed Minhan the pocket watch also died

-But who is that benefactor? The person named Lee.

The audience chuckled and said.

“Of course, this is my guess.”

-Just believe the audience’s guess.

-22 The review is reliable!

“Haha. Thank you. In my guess, if Minhan, who looks like he’s in his twenties, was young, it would be about 14 or 15 years ago, and if the year in the work is 1919, it would be around 1904 or 1905. And the day he passed away was two years ago, which is 1917, and the place is abroad. Then you can specify one person.”

The audience showed a black and white photo.

It was a picture of a man with a mustache wearing a suit.

“He is an independence activist, Lee Sang-seol.”

-…Huh?!

-Lee Sang-seol!!

-I’ve heard of him!

“Yes. Do you know the Hague envoy? He is one of the three envoys who left with Gojong’s secret order. The other two are Lee Jun and Lee Wi-jong.”

-They are all Lee.

-That’s right. Amazing.

-But why?

-What’s the reason for thinking that?

-The comment aboveIt’s like a textbook question

The audience and the viewers laughed and the audience announced the answer.

“Lee Sang-seol tried to kill himself after hearing the news of Min Young-hwan, who killed himself after hearing the Eulsa Treaty in 1905, but failed. And in 1906, he fled to Yongjeong in North Gando. The movie ‘Hwa’ is a fiction that he stopped by a Western-style mansion and named Minhan at that time.”

A monitor showed an arrow that stretched from Hanyang to Bukgan-do.

The vast northern region. There were probably remote villages and Western-style mansions everywhere.

-…Wow…

-If you go from Hanyang to Bukgan-do, you’ll have to stop somewhere in the middle, right?

-You’ll have to recover from the failed suicide attempt, right?

-The snow won’t melt until March in the north!

-…This is crazy…

“And on March 2nd, 1917, he passed away from illness in Nikolayevsk, now called Ussuriysk. It’s a city in the Maritime Province.”

-…Until the day he passed away… This seems real.

-He found it again.

-The moviegoer is amazing.

The moviegoer smiled and said.

“Thank you. It felt like I was studying history again while looking for it.”

-I feel like I’m taking a history class right now.

-I’ll never forget this lecture.

-22 Failed suicide attempt in 1905, Bukgan-do, passed away in the Maritime Province in 1917.

“Then, back to the movie, Minhan, who was frustrated, headed to his room to talk to him. But there was only a torn canvas.”

-The torn canvas is so heartbreaking.

-22 He just gave up everything.

-How sad he must have been to tear up the painting that he liked and drew himself.

-There were many independence activists who were frustrated after the March 1st Movement failed.

–

“Then he arrived at the hill where the flowers had not bloomed for nine years. The first place that came to his mind after the March 1st Movement failed, he looked at the hill where the flowers did not bloom and was frustrated again. And he thought he wanted to draw.”

-Artists are like that. They express their feelings through writing, poetry, painting, music.

-Artists have that in their blood.

-But his hands

The moviegoer nodded. And he thought of [Hwa].

“So he regretted his past independence movement again. But soon he was disappointed in himself. And he thought of Minhan. He thought of Lee, Goseongdaek, and the people. He thought that if those people could live in an independent country, he would be willing to give up his arms…”

-Really… How could he do that

-I think he could have enough worries

-The independence activists must have had things they wanted to do

“Yes. They must have. Things they wanted to do, families they wanted to take care of. They must have thought about them all the time while doing the independence movement. If only we could be independent… If only we could be independent…”

–

“He started to draw. He couldn’t use his hands, so he decided to use his feet. The paint was blood. The red blood made flowers on the white snow. It was a really amazing scene. As the narration said, it was like a flower, like a flame… It seemed like he was venting his anger. And it also seemed like he wanted to make flowers, independence, even like this.”

-I did too

-It seems more like that because the paint was blood.

-22 It was independence that was achieved by giving blood

-I felt like I couldn’t breathe while watching it.

“This climax scene was helped by Matteo, the art consultant. Matteo is a very famous rookie painter now. He has some installation art and paintings on snow, so it was very helpful.”

-Special) Introducing Seo Jun.

-If you cast Seo Jun, famous painters will roll in

“Ah, actor Seo Jun also gave a lot of inspiration and help to the painting. That’s why the painting looked very natural.”

-I wish there was a video of him drawing from start to finish.

-Me too.

“Me too. He left a message that the flowers bloomed and collapsed. I thought he looked like a white butterfly sitting on a red flower in that scene. There is a poem that comes to mind when I think of the historical situation and the white butterfly in the work.”

-I thought so too!

-…I don’t know anything.

-I don’t know much about poetry;;;

“That’s okay. You can learn now. I’ll show you. The title is Sea and Butterfly. It’s a poem by Kim Gi-rim.”

The moviegoer laughed and showed a poem on the monitor.

[Sea and Butterfly-Kim Gi-rim]

<Because no one ever told him the depth of the water

The white butterfly was not afraid of the sea at all.

He went down thinking it was a blue radish field

But his young wings got wet in the waves

And he came back exhausted like a princess.

The March moon sea is sad because the flowers do not bloom

The blue crescent moon is cold on the butterfly’s waist>

-…Suddenly a Korean class.

-History class and Korean class… Didn’t someone say he was a teacher last night?

–

The viewers and the moviegoer laughed, remembering the April outdoor broadcast.

“Haha. Yes. I’ll make it short. There is a textbook interpretation and there are many other ways to interpret it. But since this is a review of ‘Hwa’, let’s compare it to his situation.”

[Blue radish field = utopia/independence]

[Sea = reality/failure]

[Waves = aftermath of reality/frustration]

“In the poem, the butterfly mistakes the sea for a blue radish field. Eventually, his wings get wet in the seawater. If we apply this to ‘Hwa’, we can interpret that he thought he was approaching independence, but it was a mistake and he failed. ‘Waves’ can be the aftermath of failure, frustration. In other words, he who collapsed after drawing was a white butterfly who came back exhausted from frustration.”

-It’s so sad

-I keep thinking of that scene

– I’m going to watch it again tomorrow

-Now his name is white butterfly… White butterfly…

-Nameless painter, white butterfly

– It’s sadder because it suits him

“Here, ‘March moon’ and ‘flowers’ also appear. ‘The March moon sea is sad because the flowers do not bloom.’ You don’t have to interpret it separately, it’s a sentence that fits his situation perfectly. ‘The blue crescent moon is cold on the butterfly’s waist’. This is the result of the independence movement. That is, the wound on his arm. The shape of the wound is also similar to the crescent moon.”

-…I’m so dry from crying. >-<

-22 He became a dry sprout.

-33 Survive as a dry sprout.

– The moviegoer always cuts it close.

-Mom!! Hit him!!

-Now (sob) I will never (sob) forget this poem. (sob) Thank you?

-Phew. I’m glad it was a happy ending…

-22 Seriously. I thought I was going to die.

-He brought the heavenly disease poet Gwicheon last time!

-If you bring up the poem, it’s over.

“Ah.”

The moviegoer stopped at “ah” and the chat room also stopped at “uh”. The fantasy partners seemed to realize what each other was going to say.

– Don’t do it.

-Moviegoer ‘ah’ banned.

-I’m running away!!

The mild lovers reacted strongly to just one letter. The spicy lovers chuckled.

-But isn’t it too late?

-Now he escapes without even leaving a comment?

-He must have gotten used to it

Juuuk, the moviegoer was not flustered by the decreasing number of viewers. He knew that the subscribers of the channel [Moviegoer] would come back on their own because they were curious.

He was more interested in the fact that there were more viewers left than when he did [Flowing].

“It seems like there are more people who like spicy than I thought.”

-This is like, a frog in boiling water.

-22 I just got used to it by listening to the moviegoer’s review.

-33 You get used to spicy things if you keep eating them.

-Oh. He’s coming.

“Okay. I’ll continue.”

-It’s not over yet

-He was chatting

-I waited for you

-You bad…!

The moviegoer smiled and waved his hand.