Goose father

Most essential visual moments:

·      Setting: Apartment-balcony, Karaoke

·      Main theme: His loneliness, missing his family after 6 months and needed contact

·      Color scheme – cool greys and blue where the boy would have a cool palate

·      Protagonist: Gilho

·      Ages would be changed to 25 and 35

·      Scenes:

o   Need to establish that he has a family and that he is sending money to them / show his loneliness

o   The arrival of the boy – sitting on the door matt

o   He hates the goose – the boy never mentioned a goose

o   6 the next morning - boy made breakfast (uncomfortable to see a man preforming a woman’s role) – talks about his poetry

o   Walks in on the boy talking to the goose, tells him that the goose is his mom reincarnated – shows the difference in their thoughts

o   Montage – of the boy clinging to him, sponge on his feet saying poems

o   The boy felt emotional after watching a whale documentary, he took him to karaoke to cheer him up

o   Talking to wife about how weird the boy is, wife says to get a new one

o   Karaoke scene – the boy tried to kiss him, slaps the boy, boy disappears

o   He worries about the boy, telling the police

o   Goes to get a green card, man said he was so lucky, but he didn’t feel like it

o   Walking through the slums, comes across 2 prostitutes, he touched her breast but her hip kept appearing like a boys and in her eyes he say the boy – had a revelation

o   Goes to the Bar – talks about how horrid kids are these days, but they envy them

o   He returned with Taeyeong, both drunk from the bar

o   The boy is home – the snow begins to fall, there is a glow in the room

o   Taeyeong tried to pluck a feather from the goose

o   Gilho thought about killing the goose, choking it, but he didn’t – he compares himself to the goose

o   Then the goose mom scene – He asked the goose for forgiveness, he sees the goose as the boy’s mom – he sees life through the eyes of the boy

§  He saw the silhouette of a woman before he walked out on the balcony – but then when he goes out on the balcony it just the goose

§  Everything has a glow, there’s a full moon, everything has a warm glow, which contrasts the cool scheme the movie had before

o   Gilho says his final lines to the boy/ “I’ve been lonely, I’ve been lonely all my life”