Take Care of my Cat



Caught up with the Korean film Take Care of my Cat on video today.
Director Jae-eun Jeong's debut feature (2002), Take Care of My Cat portrays a group of Korean girls living in the industrial sea town of Inchon. The girls are leaving high school, and the film depicts the difficulties involved in keeping their friendships going after school.

Hae-joo works in a brokerage firm in Seoul and has ambitions; Ji-young lives with her grandparents in a crumbling home, has no job, and draws elaborate textile patterns. Tae-hee works at her father's sauna and dreams of getting away, anywhere far from her domineering family. Each girl seeks escape from the depressed town of her childhood, and none is exactly sure how to get away.

As the film develops, there is an inevitable loss of their closeness. As Take Care of My Cat begins, Tae-hee complains that it's increasingly difficult to get the group together, and their friendships only break further apart from there. The need to move on eventually affects them all , including the cat which has, by the end, lived with each girl.

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