A review by le_lobey
Human Acts by Han Kang

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Break open that moment and out of it will come massacre, torture, violent repression. It gets shoved aside, beaten to a pulp, swept away in the tide of brutality. But now, if we can only keep our eyes open, if we can all hold our gazes steady, until the bitter end...

Dong Ho, I need you to take my hand and guide me away from all this. Away to where the light shines through, to where the flowers bloom.

Historical memory, memorialization, redemption. Souls, flames, faces. Bodies. Violence, statehood, resistance, care, dignity.