"20th Century Girl" (Movie-Netflix)
‘20th Century Girl’
begins with an old videotape delivered to ‘Na Bora’, who became an adult in
2019. The old video contains the innocent 17-year-old ‘Na Bora’ in 1999, and
viewers are immersed in the memories of ‘Na Bora’ when she was young. ‘20th
Century Girl’, which deals with the story of first love in the 20th century,
revisited in the 21st century, is expected to make the hearts of viewers pound
with the keyword “first love in school days” that everyone has in their hearts.
The year 1999, which
became the main setting for the film, was an era full of fear and anticipation
that the 21st century would begin when analog and digital coexist. It was also
the time when the Internet was first distributed to the public and personal communication
equipment such as radio pagers and cell phones began to spread.
The scenes of 'Na Bora'
exchanging emails with 'Kim Yeon-doo', who left for heart surgery abroad, or
communicating with 'Baek Hyeon-jin' and 'Poong Un-ho' through the encrypted
numbers on the payphone and radio pager, are viewers who remember those days.
evokes the nostalgia of that time, in the 21st century, ‘Bora’, who is now an
adult, is delivered to the future, and the ‘video tape’ that revives the memory
of her first love that she thought she had forgotten for a while also serves as
a medium between the 20th and 21st centuries.
The atmosphere of the
end of the century, when everything was mixed, fits perfectly with the shaky
teenage ‘Bora’, where neither friendship nor love goes as planned, and the
viewers are immersed in the story.
