CAUTION : This essay can be a spoiler so whoever will watch this movie, don’t read!

   This is a movie directed by Korean director Lee, Ji-ho who is a husband of Korean actress, Kim Min. After watching this movie, two things came into my head. One is what the title of this movie means. The other is the identitiy of this movie.

   First, there are 4 emotions in this movie and they are happy, pleasure, sorrow and love. In the end of this movie, we can find that 4 different stories are connected to each other. That means 4 feelings – happy, pleasure, sorrow, love – are not seperated eventually. We sometimes think that being sad is differnt from being happy but this movie tells us that eveythings are connected. Therefore, the title of this movie has significant meaning, which “The Air I breathe” is “The Air you breathe” and “The Air we breahte”.  I wonder what you think. Do you agree with the idea that everythings are connected?

   Second, I’m not sure if we can say this is Korean movie or not. Even though the director of this movie is Korean and the scenario is written by Korean, actors and actress in this  movie are still Americans. Moreover, in this movie, there’s somthing that we can feel Korean. I don’t know exactly what are they but I could definitely feel something is different from just Hollywood movies. I wish to know how the identity of movie is determined and what factors make Korean moviea Korean things.   What do you say about this?

   There are many movies directed by Korean. Nevertheless the reason why I particulary focus on this one is because we can not find anything directly related to Korea in this movie unlike the other one such as “The War” directed by Shim, Hyung-rae. In “The War”, people are talking about Korean history but in “The Air I breate”, we can not hear any talking about Korea at all. Still, we can feel something about Korean. That’s exactly what I want to figure out. I’d like you to watch this movie and answer to my questions above.