A burned-out musician flees Seoul, but can you ever really escape the song you stopped writing?
An aspiring songwriter who ekes out a living by composing music for commercials, can no longer bear the many compromises that line of work demands and decides one day that enough is enough. As he reminisces about his college years, he leaves the city for his hometown.
Score
Hong Isaac's original compositions that *hurt* in the best way.
Cinematography
Rural Korea shot like a faded photograph you can't stop staring at.
Acting
Hong Isaac's debut performance—raw, unpolished, devastatingly real.
Director
Shim Chan-yang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hong Isaac was an actual indie musician before this; director Shim found him busking in Hongdae and wrote the role specifically for his untrained, vulnerable energy.
The title refers to repeating a musical phrase from the beginning—fitting for a film about Koreans in their late 20s returning to provincial towns as 'failures,' a growing phenomenon called 'godoksa' (lonely death anxiety).
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