HOME_Script (Original - male character)
1. INT. LIVING ROOM, HOME, SF - LATE NIGHT
The narration comes with the MELANCHOLIC MUSIC in black.
‘I’ (V.O)
I’m homeless.
I’ve lost my home for several years.
But, I still dream about it,
even though it fades away day by day.
In the empty living room, the warm, orange lamp
lights in the dark. The dim light waves in a stop motion
movement and it stops slowly. THE WHISTLE OF A TRAIN
comes as the light gets dimmer.
‘I’ (V.O)
I sometimes wake up and go down to the bottom
floor.
I see the lamp light always turning on.
I don’t know why, but I like it.
The dim light in the dark,
Somehow lonesome, but feels comforting.
(PAUSE)
Maybe… my color of loneliness is orange.
The dim light fades out, the title HOME shows in black.
2. EXT. SUNG-SU BRIDGE, SEOUL - DAY EARLY MORNING / WINTER
THE NOISE OF PASSING CARS AND WIND comes from the bridge.
The gray sky filled with smoke makes a dreary atmosphere.
Cars pass on the freeway under the bridge with TRAFFIC
NOISE. The city’s canopy of buildings is shown beyond a
gray bar on the bridge. The subway train passes over the
bridge. At the same time, the filmmaker ‘I’ (30) wearing
a heavy coat with a shabby camera stands alone in the
middle of the bridge with an expressionless face.
‘I’ (V.O)
Welcome home, you say.
But, this isn’t home anymore, it hasn’t been for
years.
I’m still a stranger.
3. EXT. RIVERSIDE PATH, SEOUL - DAY EARLY MORNING / WINTER
The ‘I’ walks on the grey edge of the sidewalk alone
like a little boy walking on a balance beam.
The ‘I’s feet stop at the broken edge of the sidewalk.
The concrete pavers on the sidewalk are shown in his
point of view. Some are loose and some are dense.
The ‘I’ takes a step forward carefully to avoid stepping
the boundary lines on the pavers. SOUND OF SUBWAY TRAIN
comes. The ‘I’ hesitates when he gets to the dense lined
pavers.
‘I’ (V.O)
On the way home, the road seems so long.
I walk this road by following the train whistle.
One step then another...
Can I get there if I cross the fence of this
memory?
As the ‘I’s feet move from the dense lined papers, a
man’s shadow with 8mm film camera comes to the dense
lined pavers. After little pause, the shadow moves from
the pavers like the ‘I’ did.
4. EXT. ENTRANCE OF THE GANGNAM DISTRICT, SEOUL – DAY
MORNING / WINTER
At the corner of the riverside path, the entrance of the
tunnel to the city is shown. The ‘I’ walks to the tunnel,
but he stops at the warning sign of construction
on the steel bars. At the corner of the construction
spot, several pieces of broken glass are shown. The ‘I’
looks at one of the pieces. The sunlight is reflected on
the glass.
‘I’ (V.O)
A piece of the wind, the real wind.
A piece of the air, the real air.
A piece of the smell, the real smell.
The fragments of the memory.
The ‘I’ walks into the tunnel. As the ‘I’s figure is
disappeared in the dark, the AMBIENT NOISE OF THE STREET
COMES and gets louder.
5. EXT. MAIN STREET, GANGNAM, SEOUL – DAY MORNING / WINTER
The ‘I’ standing in a mass of people on a crosswalk is
shown. The people pass on a crosswalk as a red traffic
light turns green. The ‘I’ doesn’t move and stays in the
edge line of a crosswalk. Different colors and styles
of the legs passing through the ‘I’s feet on the
crosswalk are shown with FEET TAPPING NOISE.
The green traffic light turns to orange
and it starts flickering. The orange traffic light
turns to red. People come to the crosswalk and wait
the green light again. The ‘I’ is disappeared as the
people pass by him.
‘I’ (V.O)
Where am I?
Who are these people?
Where are they running off so busy?
I stop and say hi to them,
But, no one stops, no one looks at me.
They only go their own ways.
6. EXT. SUBWAY STATION, SEOUL - DAY MORNING / WINTER
The mass of people walks on the passage. TRAIN BOARDING
ANNOUNCEMENT comes; they run into the packed train.
The empty platform shows. In the middle of the platform,
a small white screen flickers. The white screen turns
black and the animated subway route map with a small
moving train is shown on the screen. Closed-up image of
the train moves slowly with the AMBIENT NOISE
from the inside of the train.
‘I’ (V.O)
Without my consent,
the train named 'time' passes me and leaves.
I’m left alone on the empty platform.
The flickering screen over there only confirms my
existence.
7. INT. SUBWAY TRAIN, SEOUL – DAY NOON / WINTER
In the subway train, few people sit on chairs. As a
train arrives at the station, the image of the ‘I’
is briefly reflected. Over the reflected image of
the ‘I’ inside of the train, the blur image of the
SHADOW crouching in the corner from the outside of the
train overlaps slowly in stop motion.
‘I’ (V.O)
What am I waiting for, for such a long time?
The sound of the air is even cold in this place.
I see the man crouching far from the edge of
Platform.
Has it been far too long?
We feel so awkward to each other...
8. INT. SUBWAY PLATFORM, SEOUL – DAY NOON / WINTER
A subway door opens and no one gets out. The door closes.
On the empty platform, the shadow on the shabby wall
on the side of the subway tunnel starts talking to
the ‘I’ in KOREAN.
SHADOW (V.O)
거기, 내가 보여?
Hello, can you see me?
내 목소리가 들리…? 긴 시간의 터널을 지나 여기까지 왔어.
Can you hear my voice…? I passed through the long
tunnel of time and stopped here.
나… 오랫동안 널 기다렸어.
I’ve been waiting you for a long time.
니가 그리웠거든.
I missed you.
괜찮아, 잠시 멈춰서서 내게 말해봐.
It's all right, stop walking and talk to me.
The empty platform shows again. The ‘I’ walks to the
wall and leans on it tiredly. The dark, a long way
of subway tunnel is shown behind the platform.
‘I’ (V.O)
I missed you, too...
But, the road behind of me was a long way to come.
I wanted to find a home I've never been before.
But, I failed.
I walked carefully along the line with a heavy
bag saddled at my side.
I stumbled and fell at times.
I felt afraid, so I stopped.
The shadow appears and speaks.
SHADOW (V.O)
네가있던곳에 대해서 듣고싶어.
Tell me about the place you’ve traveled.
The orange-ish headlight of the running train comes from
the tunnel with the ECHOING NOISE. The ‘I’s reflection
is scattered on the windows of the passing train in
stop motion movement. As the image gets more blurred
with the mixture of both KOREAN and ENGLISH SPEAKING
NOISE, the passing train overlaps to the BART train
passing on the Powell Station in the city of San
Francisco.
9. INT. SUBWAY TRAIN, SF – DAY / SUMMER
As the train gets out from the ground, the landscape of
San Francisco is shown through the subway train window.
As the train runs fast, the lines of houses on
a hill are shown. The road is dispread long and
far in the front. The image is reflected by the bright
sunlight through the window.
‘I’ (V.O)
Well… It was shiny and glittered at first.
My heart was fluttering all day.
People were kind and they told me about the
dream, dreams I would never met…
SHADOW (V.O)
꿈?
What dream?
‘I’ (V.O)
The dream about a home,
the real home that people were always missing.
The place I went,
there was a long road I’ve never seen.
I thought that’s the way to go home.
So, I took the subway to get there faster.
The shadow appears without words.
SHADOW (V.O)
……
The people in the BART train are shown with the SUBWAY
ROUTE ANNOUNCEMENT. The ‘I’ looks at the people vacantly.
Some talk on the phone, some send texts, some sit and
work with the laptop, and some put earphones and
listen music. As the train goes underground,
the ‘I’ plugs in his earphones, the AMBIENT NOISE turns
to MUTE. In the MUTE, all of the people look tired and
isolated. Their expressionless faces shake on the window
reflection.
‘I’ (V.O)
In the subway, there were many passengers.
They seemed tired and lonesome.
I tried to talk to them to ask where the train
goes, but no one wanted to talk.
There was a destination announcement in the train,
but, I couldn’t understand.
SHADOW (V.O)
그래서… 그곳에 도착은했어?
So… did you get there?
10. INT. BUS, SF – DAY / SUMMER
The beautiful city landscape of San Francisco is shown
through the MUNI bus window. Different images of
various people on the street and the antique and
modernized buildings are shown. The traffic light on
the crosswalk turns to red and the bus stops.
The bus driver looks back to the passengers.
The rear door opens and the ‘I’ gets off next to
the fare box.
‘I’ (V.O)
No, I got off from the train and took the bus.
I saw the world I’ve never seen.
It was exotic and beautiful.
It seemed like the way go home.
So, I asked to the driver where the bus goes.
SHADOW (V.O)
그래서?
Where the bus was going?
(PAUSE)
‘I’ (V.O)
Well… I don’t know… He asked me to show my
ticket, but I didn’t have one.
He told me I should get off from the bus.
SHADOW (V.O)
그래서 어떻게 됐는데?
What happen then?
11. EXT. AMTRAK STATION, EMERYVILLE – DAY / SUMMER
The AMTRAK station by a long railroad is shown.
Inside of the station, people buy tickets from the
vending machine. The ‘I’ stands alone in front of the
vending machine. Different costs of the fares are shown
on the screen. The ‘I’ puts his hand in his pocket to
count the money. While he hesitates, the people walk in
hurry as the TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT comes.
A train arrives and people get in.
The empty platform shows after the train leaves.
The ‘I’ sitting on the bench alone is shown.
The sky gets dark and the DRIZZLING SOUND COMES.
‘I’ (V.O)
The driver dropped me at the train station.
He told me that was the road to go home.
But, I didn’t have money to buy a ticket.
So, I started to walk… and I came here.
(GULP)
I’m so thirsty… I might have walked too long…
The shadow shows again and talks.
SHADOW (V.O)
음…
Hm…
(PAUSE)
넌 아마 평생 갈등을 느끼며 살꺼야.
돌아갈 수 없는 과거와
보이지 않는 미래 사이에서 생겨나는 갈증…
You may feel thirsty… until you get your
destination.
Thirsty between the irretrievable road you have
Walked and the invisible road you will walk…
The ‘I’ leaning on the wall of the subway platform
shows again. He flops down into the ground and talks.
‘I’ (V.O)
Tell me your story… Where were you and where
are you going?
The shadow on the wall is slowly erased by the
headlights of the train with THE MIXED SOUND OF THE
ONCOMING TRAIN AND CHILDREN PLAYING. The light
gets brighter and it overlaps to the orange-ish
sunlight over the playground. THE NOISE OF
CHILDREN RUNNING and WIND BLOWING comes as a Transition
sequence.
12. EXT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SEOUL - DAY LATE AFTERNOON /
WINTER
Dust and sand wave on a large school ground in the
winter. Trees are bare of leaves and few little
children play with sand after school. The sky is blue,
without clouds and THE NOISE OF THE WIND rings their
ears. A boy calls friends and they run together. A dust
cloud follows foots of the running children.
A twig waves slowly and a leaf hanging on the twig
falls down slightly. Wind pushes out the leaf with dust.
The little boy hunkered down with an expressionless
face sees the flying leaf on the empty ground.
SHADOW (V.O)
난 너의 기억 여러곳에 있었어.
널 기다렸지.
I’ve been several places in your memory.
I was waiting for you.
‘I’ (V.O)
I don’t understand… what did you do on there?
SHADOW (V.O)
난 해가 질때까지 하루종일 뛰어놀았어.
친구들이 하나둘씩 집으로 돌아가고 난 혼자 남겨졌지.
저 멀리 네가 보였어. 힘껏 널 불렀어.
그런데 넌 듣지 못하더라.
I played all day until the sun goes down.
They left one by one and I was left alone.
I saw you. I called you at the top of my voice.
But, you couldn’t hear me.
‘I’ (V.O)
I don’t remember…
No… I heard your voice, but…
13. EXT. HIGH SCHOOL, SEOUL - DAY LATE AFTERNOON / WINTER
THE SCHOOL BELL RINGS AND ECHOES. At the main entrance
of the high school, a bunch of students wearing a
school uniform come out. Among the students, a male
student looks at the camera straight very shortly.
The empty school ground is shown up after a mass of
students leaving.
SHADOW (V.O)
바람이불어. 난 눈을떴어.
낮설지만 왠지모르게 익숙한 속삭임이 내 귀를 간지르고
난 그 소리를 따라가지.
네가 보여. 난 널 따라가고 어느덧 네 앞에 서있어.
하지만 넌 날 알아보지 못해.
The wind blew and I opened my eyes.
Strange, yet somehow familiar whispers tickled my
ear and I took a step towards the sound.
I saw you. I followed and faced you.
But, you didn’t recognize me.
‘I’ (V.O)
I… I saw you…
but… I was afraid…
SHADOW (V.O)
괜찮아... 모든걸 다 설명할 필요는 없으니까.
It’s ok…
You don’t have to explain everything.
14. EXT. APARTMENT COMPLEXT ROOF, SEOUL – DAY DUSK / WINTER
A bunch of apartment complexes is shown from the
rooftop of the apartment. On the large space of the
rooftop, different shapes of antennas and ventilators
are shown. The sky gets dark and numerous windows
of the apartment lights up. It looks like a cube or a
chicken coop.
SHADOW (V.O)
너와 나의 키차이 때문일까?
우린 서로 다른곳을 바라보고있구나.
Do you think it’s because of our height
difference?
We are looking at different places.
‘I’ (V.O)
I always wanted to come here…
(PAUSE)
If I untie and untie these rings of the memory,
can we arrive home in our memory?
The animated images of the lights from the windows of
the apartments comes with THE TRAFFIC NOISE from the
bridge that the ‘I’ walked in the beginning as a
Transition sequence.
15. EXT. EXT. SUNG-SU BRIDGE, SEOUL - DAY LATE AFTERNOON /
WINTER
The ‘I’ is shown in the middle of the bridge and looks
at the water. The image of the water waves and the
image of the ‘I’ walking on the handrail is shown.
The ‘I’ stops and drops the camera. The camera dropping
into the water with a slash is shown in a slow motion
with MELANCHOLIC MUSIC.
SHADOW (V.O)
네게 뛰어가 널 마주하고 안아주고 싶지만
우리는 너무나도 긴 시간을 사이에 두고 있구나.
난 아마도 돌아가야 하나보다.
I may run to face you and hug you,
but there is a long time between us.
I may go back…
‘I’ (V.O)
Don't leave!
Can you just look at me for a while...?
From some place and time, my time has been
Stopped.
The time fed me, at the same time, it unshaped my
figure.
I feel like I became invisible.
SHADOW (V.O)
넌 언제나 네 기억속의 주인공을 뿐이지.
넌 그저 여기 이 이방인들 사이의 또 하나의 이방인일 뿐이야.
You’re only the protagonist in your own time and
Space.
You are just a stranger among the strangers here.
16. EXT. SINKING CAMERA IN THE WATER, SEOUL - DAY LATE
AFTERNOON / WINTER
The blur image of camera sinking in the water is shown.
On the bottom of the water, the shabby images of the
people in the city (this part will be more detailed
later) are projected with a projector ROLLING SOUND.
SHADOW (V.O)
이방인으로 산다는것…
그건 마치 영화가 끝난 후 텅빈 상영관에 홀로 남겨진 관객과
같지 않을까?
왠지모를 설레임과 외로움이 공존하는.
여기 작지만 다양한 삶의 모습들을 봐.
복잡하게 돌아가는 세상과 화려한 도시의 다양한 사람들.
그들의 얼굴 한켠에는 설명할 수 없는
외로움이 드리워져 있는것 같아.
아무리 닿으려고 해도 닿을 수 없는 시간과 공간의 공허함...
Strangers living as one…
Isn't it like a movie audience left alone in an
empty theater?
It is exciting, yet stirs loneliness at the same
Time.
Look at these tiny pieces of life and culture.
The complexity of the world, with a vast variety
of people.
Their loneliness is buried somewhere in the
gorgeous view of the city…
It’s the untouchable emptiness on their way home.
The camera reaches to the sand on the bottom of the
water. After little pause, the rolling camera is
stopped with a CLINKING SOUND.
17. EXT. EXT. SUNG-SU BRIDGE, SEOUL – NIGHT / WINTER
THE NOISE OF PASSING CARS AND WIND comes again.
The night filled with orange-ish streetlights makes a
lonesome atmosphere. Cars pass on the freeway under the
bridge with TRAFFIC NOISE. The city’s canopy of
buildings is shown beyond a gray bar on the bridge. At
the end of the bridge, the people passing through the
entrance are shown. Some walk and some bike.
The ‘I’ holding a shabby camera walks to the entrance of
the city.
The subway train passes over the bridge.
‘I’ (V.O)
Strange life in the strange world.
Familiar to you, but I still feel unfamiliar
somehow.
I sometimes became another’s companion, I became
one of them. I thought and felt with them.
They told me about a longing.
Longing for family, longing for friends, longing
for the love they couldn't make...
Longing for forgotten memories...
(PAUSE)
It makes me tired at times.
I wanna go back...
wanna go back to the home I've left.
18. EXT. SUBWAY PLATFORM, SEOUL – LATE NIGHT / WINTER
THE SOUND OF SUBWAY TRAIN comes. The orange-ish
headlight of the train gets glow and it overlaps to
the lamp light on the table in the opening.
‘I’ (V.O)
I can’t remember the taste of home anymore…
Maybe. It wasn't home I missed.
SHADOW (V.O)
누군가 그러더라,
시간은 늘 시간이고 자리는 늘 자리일뿐
있는것은 오직 한순간 한자리에 있는거라고.
Someone said, time is always time and place is
always and only…place,..
What is actual is actual only for one time and
only for one place.
19. INT. LIVING ROOM, HOME, SF - LATE NIGHT
The dim light waves in a stop motion movement. As the
narration comes, the light gets dimmer and fades out
with THE WHISTLE OF A TRAIN.
SHADOW (V.O)
아마도 우리에게 집이란건 처음부터 존재하지 않았는지도
모르지…
매일같이 돌고도는 추억의 굴레속에서 그 의미를 찾으려할뿐.
그건 마치 종착점이 없는 순환선 같은거야.
하지만 애써 멈추려고 하지마,
시간은 영원히 지속될테니까.
적어도 네 추억속에서 만큼은 말이야.
We may not have a home from the beginning.
People just try to find the meaning of home from
the fetters of their memory.
It’s like a train circling with no destination.
But, don’t try to stop it,
Time lasts forever like your (or the)
unforgettable memory.
‘I’ (V.O)
I don’t understand yet.
I'm still afraid...
SHADOW (V.O)
꼭 그 의미를 알려고 할 필요는 없어…
어차피 우리는 이방인들 속의 또 하나의 이방인일 뿐이니까.
You don’t have to understand it…
In the end, we are all strangers among strangers.
[END]
The narration comes with the MELANCHOLIC MUSIC in black.
‘I’ (V.O)
I’m homeless.
I’ve lost my home for several years.
But, I still dream about it,
even though it fades away day by day.
In the empty living room, the warm, orange lamp
lights in the dark. The dim light waves in a stop motion
movement and it stops slowly. THE WHISTLE OF A TRAIN
comes as the light gets dimmer.
‘I’ (V.O)
I sometimes wake up and go down to the bottom
floor.
I see the lamp light always turning on.
I don’t know why, but I like it.
The dim light in the dark,
Somehow lonesome, but feels comforting.
(PAUSE)
Maybe… my color of loneliness is orange.
The dim light fades out, the title HOME shows in black.
2. EXT. SUNG-SU BRIDGE, SEOUL - DAY EARLY MORNING / WINTER
THE NOISE OF PASSING CARS AND WIND comes from the bridge.
The gray sky filled with smoke makes a dreary atmosphere.
Cars pass on the freeway under the bridge with TRAFFIC
NOISE. The city’s canopy of buildings is shown beyond a
gray bar on the bridge. The subway train passes over the
bridge. At the same time, the filmmaker ‘I’ (30) wearing
a heavy coat with a shabby camera stands alone in the
middle of the bridge with an expressionless face.
‘I’ (V.O)
Welcome home, you say.
But, this isn’t home anymore, it hasn’t been for
years.
I’m still a stranger.
3. EXT. RIVERSIDE PATH, SEOUL - DAY EARLY MORNING / WINTER
The ‘I’ walks on the grey edge of the sidewalk alone
like a little boy walking on a balance beam.
The ‘I’s feet stop at the broken edge of the sidewalk.
The concrete pavers on the sidewalk are shown in his
point of view. Some are loose and some are dense.
The ‘I’ takes a step forward carefully to avoid stepping
the boundary lines on the pavers. SOUND OF SUBWAY TRAIN
comes. The ‘I’ hesitates when he gets to the dense lined
pavers.
‘I’ (V.O)
On the way home, the road seems so long.
I walk this road by following the train whistle.
One step then another...
Can I get there if I cross the fence of this
memory?
As the ‘I’s feet move from the dense lined papers, a
man’s shadow with 8mm film camera comes to the dense
lined pavers. After little pause, the shadow moves from
the pavers like the ‘I’ did.
4. EXT. ENTRANCE OF THE GANGNAM DISTRICT, SEOUL – DAY
MORNING / WINTER
At the corner of the riverside path, the entrance of the
tunnel to the city is shown. The ‘I’ walks to the tunnel,
but he stops at the warning sign of construction
on the steel bars. At the corner of the construction
spot, several pieces of broken glass are shown. The ‘I’
looks at one of the pieces. The sunlight is reflected on
the glass.
‘I’ (V.O)
A piece of the wind, the real wind.
A piece of the air, the real air.
A piece of the smell, the real smell.
The fragments of the memory.
The ‘I’ walks into the tunnel. As the ‘I’s figure is
disappeared in the dark, the AMBIENT NOISE OF THE STREET
COMES and gets louder.
5. EXT. MAIN STREET, GANGNAM, SEOUL – DAY MORNING / WINTER
The ‘I’ standing in a mass of people on a crosswalk is
shown. The people pass on a crosswalk as a red traffic
light turns green. The ‘I’ doesn’t move and stays in the
edge line of a crosswalk. Different colors and styles
of the legs passing through the ‘I’s feet on the
crosswalk are shown with FEET TAPPING NOISE.
The green traffic light turns to orange
and it starts flickering. The orange traffic light
turns to red. People come to the crosswalk and wait
the green light again. The ‘I’ is disappeared as the
people pass by him.
‘I’ (V.O)
Where am I?
Who are these people?
Where are they running off so busy?
I stop and say hi to them,
But, no one stops, no one looks at me.
They only go their own ways.
6. EXT. SUBWAY STATION, SEOUL - DAY MORNING / WINTER
The mass of people walks on the passage. TRAIN BOARDING
ANNOUNCEMENT comes; they run into the packed train.
The empty platform shows. In the middle of the platform,
a small white screen flickers. The white screen turns
black and the animated subway route map with a small
moving train is shown on the screen. Closed-up image of
the train moves slowly with the AMBIENT NOISE
from the inside of the train.
‘I’ (V.O)
Without my consent,
the train named 'time' passes me and leaves.
I’m left alone on the empty platform.
The flickering screen over there only confirms my
existence.
7. INT. SUBWAY TRAIN, SEOUL – DAY NOON / WINTER
In the subway train, few people sit on chairs. As a
train arrives at the station, the image of the ‘I’
is briefly reflected. Over the reflected image of
the ‘I’ inside of the train, the blur image of the
SHADOW crouching in the corner from the outside of the
train overlaps slowly in stop motion.
‘I’ (V.O)
What am I waiting for, for such a long time?
The sound of the air is even cold in this place.
I see the man crouching far from the edge of
Platform.
Has it been far too long?
We feel so awkward to each other...
8. INT. SUBWAY PLATFORM, SEOUL – DAY NOON / WINTER
A subway door opens and no one gets out. The door closes.
On the empty platform, the shadow on the shabby wall
on the side of the subway tunnel starts talking to
the ‘I’ in KOREAN.
SHADOW (V.O)
거기, 내가 보여?
Hello, can you see me?
내 목소리가 들리…? 긴 시간의 터널을 지나 여기까지 왔어.
Can you hear my voice…? I passed through the long
tunnel of time and stopped here.
나… 오랫동안 널 기다렸어.
I’ve been waiting you for a long time.
니가 그리웠거든.
I missed you.
괜찮아, 잠시 멈춰서서 내게 말해봐.
It's all right, stop walking and talk to me.
The empty platform shows again. The ‘I’ walks to the
wall and leans on it tiredly. The dark, a long way
of subway tunnel is shown behind the platform.
‘I’ (V.O)
I missed you, too...
But, the road behind of me was a long way to come.
I wanted to find a home I've never been before.
But, I failed.
I walked carefully along the line with a heavy
bag saddled at my side.
I stumbled and fell at times.
I felt afraid, so I stopped.
The shadow appears and speaks.
SHADOW (V.O)
네가있던곳에 대해서 듣고싶어.
Tell me about the place you’ve traveled.
The orange-ish headlight of the running train comes from
the tunnel with the ECHOING NOISE. The ‘I’s reflection
is scattered on the windows of the passing train in
stop motion movement. As the image gets more blurred
with the mixture of both KOREAN and ENGLISH SPEAKING
NOISE, the passing train overlaps to the BART train
passing on the Powell Station in the city of San
Francisco.
9. INT. SUBWAY TRAIN, SF – DAY / SUMMER
As the train gets out from the ground, the landscape of
San Francisco is shown through the subway train window.
As the train runs fast, the lines of houses on
a hill are shown. The road is dispread long and
far in the front. The image is reflected by the bright
sunlight through the window.
‘I’ (V.O)
Well… It was shiny and glittered at first.
My heart was fluttering all day.
People were kind and they told me about the
dream, dreams I would never met…
SHADOW (V.O)
꿈?
What dream?
‘I’ (V.O)
The dream about a home,
the real home that people were always missing.
The place I went,
there was a long road I’ve never seen.
I thought that’s the way to go home.
So, I took the subway to get there faster.
The shadow appears without words.
SHADOW (V.O)
……
The people in the BART train are shown with the SUBWAY
ROUTE ANNOUNCEMENT. The ‘I’ looks at the people vacantly.
Some talk on the phone, some send texts, some sit and
work with the laptop, and some put earphones and
listen music. As the train goes underground,
the ‘I’ plugs in his earphones, the AMBIENT NOISE turns
to MUTE. In the MUTE, all of the people look tired and
isolated. Their expressionless faces shake on the window
reflection.
‘I’ (V.O)
In the subway, there were many passengers.
They seemed tired and lonesome.
I tried to talk to them to ask where the train
goes, but no one wanted to talk.
There was a destination announcement in the train,
but, I couldn’t understand.
SHADOW (V.O)
그래서… 그곳에 도착은했어?
So… did you get there?
10. INT. BUS, SF – DAY / SUMMER
The beautiful city landscape of San Francisco is shown
through the MUNI bus window. Different images of
various people on the street and the antique and
modernized buildings are shown. The traffic light on
the crosswalk turns to red and the bus stops.
The bus driver looks back to the passengers.
The rear door opens and the ‘I’ gets off next to
the fare box.
‘I’ (V.O)
No, I got off from the train and took the bus.
I saw the world I’ve never seen.
It was exotic and beautiful.
It seemed like the way go home.
So, I asked to the driver where the bus goes.
SHADOW (V.O)
그래서?
Where the bus was going?
(PAUSE)
‘I’ (V.O)
Well… I don’t know… He asked me to show my
ticket, but I didn’t have one.
He told me I should get off from the bus.
SHADOW (V.O)
그래서 어떻게 됐는데?
What happen then?
11. EXT. AMTRAK STATION, EMERYVILLE – DAY / SUMMER
The AMTRAK station by a long railroad is shown.
Inside of the station, people buy tickets from the
vending machine. The ‘I’ stands alone in front of the
vending machine. Different costs of the fares are shown
on the screen. The ‘I’ puts his hand in his pocket to
count the money. While he hesitates, the people walk in
hurry as the TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT comes.
A train arrives and people get in.
The empty platform shows after the train leaves.
The ‘I’ sitting on the bench alone is shown.
The sky gets dark and the DRIZZLING SOUND COMES.
‘I’ (V.O)
The driver dropped me at the train station.
He told me that was the road to go home.
But, I didn’t have money to buy a ticket.
So, I started to walk… and I came here.
(GULP)
I’m so thirsty… I might have walked too long…
The shadow shows again and talks.
SHADOW (V.O)
음…
Hm…
(PAUSE)
넌 아마 평생 갈등을 느끼며 살꺼야.
돌아갈 수 없는 과거와
보이지 않는 미래 사이에서 생겨나는 갈증…
You may feel thirsty… until you get your
destination.
Thirsty between the irretrievable road you have
Walked and the invisible road you will walk…
The ‘I’ leaning on the wall of the subway platform
shows again. He flops down into the ground and talks.
‘I’ (V.O)
Tell me your story… Where were you and where
are you going?
The shadow on the wall is slowly erased by the
headlights of the train with THE MIXED SOUND OF THE
ONCOMING TRAIN AND CHILDREN PLAYING. The light
gets brighter and it overlaps to the orange-ish
sunlight over the playground. THE NOISE OF
CHILDREN RUNNING and WIND BLOWING comes as a Transition
sequence.
12. EXT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SEOUL - DAY LATE AFTERNOON /
WINTER
Dust and sand wave on a large school ground in the
winter. Trees are bare of leaves and few little
children play with sand after school. The sky is blue,
without clouds and THE NOISE OF THE WIND rings their
ears. A boy calls friends and they run together. A dust
cloud follows foots of the running children.
A twig waves slowly and a leaf hanging on the twig
falls down slightly. Wind pushes out the leaf with dust.
The little boy hunkered down with an expressionless
face sees the flying leaf on the empty ground.
SHADOW (V.O)
난 너의 기억 여러곳에 있었어.
널 기다렸지.
I’ve been several places in your memory.
I was waiting for you.
‘I’ (V.O)
I don’t understand… what did you do on there?
SHADOW (V.O)
난 해가 질때까지 하루종일 뛰어놀았어.
친구들이 하나둘씩 집으로 돌아가고 난 혼자 남겨졌지.
저 멀리 네가 보였어. 힘껏 널 불렀어.
그런데 넌 듣지 못하더라.
I played all day until the sun goes down.
They left one by one and I was left alone.
I saw you. I called you at the top of my voice.
But, you couldn’t hear me.
‘I’ (V.O)
I don’t remember…
No… I heard your voice, but…
13. EXT. HIGH SCHOOL, SEOUL - DAY LATE AFTERNOON / WINTER
THE SCHOOL BELL RINGS AND ECHOES. At the main entrance
of the high school, a bunch of students wearing a
school uniform come out. Among the students, a male
student looks at the camera straight very shortly.
The empty school ground is shown up after a mass of
students leaving.
SHADOW (V.O)
바람이불어. 난 눈을떴어.
낮설지만 왠지모르게 익숙한 속삭임이 내 귀를 간지르고
난 그 소리를 따라가지.
네가 보여. 난 널 따라가고 어느덧 네 앞에 서있어.
하지만 넌 날 알아보지 못해.
The wind blew and I opened my eyes.
Strange, yet somehow familiar whispers tickled my
ear and I took a step towards the sound.
I saw you. I followed and faced you.
But, you didn’t recognize me.
‘I’ (V.O)
I… I saw you…
but… I was afraid…
SHADOW (V.O)
괜찮아... 모든걸 다 설명할 필요는 없으니까.
It’s ok…
You don’t have to explain everything.
14. EXT. APARTMENT COMPLEXT ROOF, SEOUL – DAY DUSK / WINTER
A bunch of apartment complexes is shown from the
rooftop of the apartment. On the large space of the
rooftop, different shapes of antennas and ventilators
are shown. The sky gets dark and numerous windows
of the apartment lights up. It looks like a cube or a
chicken coop.
SHADOW (V.O)
너와 나의 키차이 때문일까?
우린 서로 다른곳을 바라보고있구나.
Do you think it’s because of our height
difference?
We are looking at different places.
‘I’ (V.O)
I always wanted to come here…
(PAUSE)
If I untie and untie these rings of the memory,
can we arrive home in our memory?
The animated images of the lights from the windows of
the apartments comes with THE TRAFFIC NOISE from the
bridge that the ‘I’ walked in the beginning as a
Transition sequence.
15. EXT. EXT. SUNG-SU BRIDGE, SEOUL - DAY LATE AFTERNOON /
WINTER
The ‘I’ is shown in the middle of the bridge and looks
at the water. The image of the water waves and the
image of the ‘I’ walking on the handrail is shown.
The ‘I’ stops and drops the camera. The camera dropping
into the water with a slash is shown in a slow motion
with MELANCHOLIC MUSIC.
SHADOW (V.O)
네게 뛰어가 널 마주하고 안아주고 싶지만
우리는 너무나도 긴 시간을 사이에 두고 있구나.
난 아마도 돌아가야 하나보다.
I may run to face you and hug you,
but there is a long time between us.
I may go back…
‘I’ (V.O)
Don't leave!
Can you just look at me for a while...?
From some place and time, my time has been
Stopped.
The time fed me, at the same time, it unshaped my
figure.
I feel like I became invisible.
SHADOW (V.O)
넌 언제나 네 기억속의 주인공을 뿐이지.
넌 그저 여기 이 이방인들 사이의 또 하나의 이방인일 뿐이야.
You’re only the protagonist in your own time and
Space.
You are just a stranger among the strangers here.
16. EXT. SINKING CAMERA IN THE WATER, SEOUL - DAY LATE
AFTERNOON / WINTER
The blur image of camera sinking in the water is shown.
On the bottom of the water, the shabby images of the
people in the city (this part will be more detailed
later) are projected with a projector ROLLING SOUND.
SHADOW (V.O)
이방인으로 산다는것…
그건 마치 영화가 끝난 후 텅빈 상영관에 홀로 남겨진 관객과
같지 않을까?
왠지모를 설레임과 외로움이 공존하는.
여기 작지만 다양한 삶의 모습들을 봐.
복잡하게 돌아가는 세상과 화려한 도시의 다양한 사람들.
그들의 얼굴 한켠에는 설명할 수 없는
외로움이 드리워져 있는것 같아.
아무리 닿으려고 해도 닿을 수 없는 시간과 공간의 공허함...
Strangers living as one…
Isn't it like a movie audience left alone in an
empty theater?
It is exciting, yet stirs loneliness at the same
Time.
Look at these tiny pieces of life and culture.
The complexity of the world, with a vast variety
of people.
Their loneliness is buried somewhere in the
gorgeous view of the city…
It’s the untouchable emptiness on their way home.
The camera reaches to the sand on the bottom of the
water. After little pause, the rolling camera is
stopped with a CLINKING SOUND.
17. EXT. EXT. SUNG-SU BRIDGE, SEOUL – NIGHT / WINTER
THE NOISE OF PASSING CARS AND WIND comes again.
The night filled with orange-ish streetlights makes a
lonesome atmosphere. Cars pass on the freeway under the
bridge with TRAFFIC NOISE. The city’s canopy of
buildings is shown beyond a gray bar on the bridge. At
the end of the bridge, the people passing through the
entrance are shown. Some walk and some bike.
The ‘I’ holding a shabby camera walks to the entrance of
the city.
The subway train passes over the bridge.
‘I’ (V.O)
Strange life in the strange world.
Familiar to you, but I still feel unfamiliar
somehow.
I sometimes became another’s companion, I became
one of them. I thought and felt with them.
They told me about a longing.
Longing for family, longing for friends, longing
for the love they couldn't make...
Longing for forgotten memories...
(PAUSE)
It makes me tired at times.
I wanna go back...
wanna go back to the home I've left.
18. EXT. SUBWAY PLATFORM, SEOUL – LATE NIGHT / WINTER
THE SOUND OF SUBWAY TRAIN comes. The orange-ish
headlight of the train gets glow and it overlaps to
the lamp light on the table in the opening.
‘I’ (V.O)
I can’t remember the taste of home anymore…
Maybe. It wasn't home I missed.
SHADOW (V.O)
누군가 그러더라,
시간은 늘 시간이고 자리는 늘 자리일뿐
있는것은 오직 한순간 한자리에 있는거라고.
Someone said, time is always time and place is
always and only…place,..
What is actual is actual only for one time and
only for one place.
19. INT. LIVING ROOM, HOME, SF - LATE NIGHT
The dim light waves in a stop motion movement. As the
narration comes, the light gets dimmer and fades out
with THE WHISTLE OF A TRAIN.
SHADOW (V.O)
아마도 우리에게 집이란건 처음부터 존재하지 않았는지도
모르지…
매일같이 돌고도는 추억의 굴레속에서 그 의미를 찾으려할뿐.
그건 마치 종착점이 없는 순환선 같은거야.
하지만 애써 멈추려고 하지마,
시간은 영원히 지속될테니까.
적어도 네 추억속에서 만큼은 말이야.
We may not have a home from the beginning.
People just try to find the meaning of home from
the fetters of their memory.
It’s like a train circling with no destination.
But, don’t try to stop it,
Time lasts forever like your (or the)
unforgettable memory.
‘I’ (V.O)
I don’t understand yet.
I'm still afraid...
SHADOW (V.O)
꼭 그 의미를 알려고 할 필요는 없어…
어차피 우리는 이방인들 속의 또 하나의 이방인일 뿐이니까.
You don’t have to understand it…
In the end, we are all strangers among strangers.
[END]
