I would hope that she would be seen, if that makes sense. I guess I just hope that this film would somehow capture who was, someone who is invisible. Chung also made a note of the mysterious herbal medicine his grandmother brought over when she joined the family from Korea, and of the minari plants that she sowed on the family's farm. The list included a description of the lunch pail that Chung's parents would bring with them while working at a chicken factory - and which they would sometimes use to save chicks from being killed. "These were little visual memories, little details." "I didn't set out to just write 80, but that's how many just flowed out of me in one session," Chung says. So he went to the local library and spent the afternoon writing a list of memories from his own rural upbringing. Inspired by Willa Cather's writing about her Nebraska roots, he decided to look into his own past. Director Lee Isaac Chung says the film was inspired by his own rural upbringing.ĭirector Lee Isaac Chung's inspiration for Minari, his semi-autobiographical film about a Korean American father who moves his family to a farm in rural Arkansas, began with a list.Ĭhung had been struggling to settle on a new project. Married couple Jacob and Monica Yi (Steven Yeun and Yeri Han) relocate from California to a farm in Arkansas in the film Minari.
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