Uruphong Raksasad can't speak English.

I suddenly recalled the moment that I questioned to Uruphong Raksasad in Vancouver 2006. Even though, he was with the interpreter in the GV session, I just assumed that he actually could speak English. But he couldn't. He could only give me a simple and a few words of answer. I think Uruphong Raksasad who cannot speak English more suits his films, not something like 'countrified' mood but 'similarity' of him with his objects. That's how he has become a master.

Also he has become, I guess, more fluent in speaking English now. :-)

문득 갑자기 우루퐁 락사사드에게 2006년 밴쿠버에서 말걸었을 때가 생각난다. GV 때 태국인 통역자가 함께 했었지만 나는 그냥 그가 엘리트고 영어를 당연히 하리라 생각했다. 그러나 아니었다. 그는 내 질문에 그저 간단한 대답밖에 해주지 못했다. 당시 나는 좀 실망했던 거 같다. 이미 그만큼 유명해진 다른 감독들의 코스모폴리턴한 세련됨에 견주어 그는 정말 그의 영화 속 마을에서 금방 날아온 사람같았기 때문이다. 그러나 영어 못하는 우루퐁 락사사드가 그의 영화에 더 잘 어울린다고, 문득 생각해본다. 촌스럽다는 측면에서가 아니라, 대상과의 유대, 대상과의 유사성, 대상과의 (어떤 투명한) 관계에 있어서 말이다. 그렇게 그는 거장이 됐다.

물론 지금 그는 영어를 퍽 잘 할 거다. ㅋ

There are no adults in Haiti now.

I was just about to fell off from the running machine. I just disinterestly staring at the TV installed to the running machine tuned to, for my English listening practice, CNN. I just closed my eyes unintentionally, partly because of the horrible situation there. Mainly, however, I just couldn't bear the way the CNN was dealing with the disaster. I said to my self "Oh my god" and just wanted to escape from that how journalism of developed countries, probably including Korea, were tempting to shoot 'something' mist of the hell, where they don't belong to, Haiti.


Haiti's disasters were filling the screen and heroic journalists from the US were depicting what is going on there. Everything seemed so terrible, as you can tell. The only thing that was NOT miserabe were the CNN journalists. The anchor was weary of if her reporters were ok in Haiti where after quakes are still in effect, but the reports looked 'relatively' clean, for sure, and civilized in the land of, even befor the earthquake, poverty and history of slavery. And they WERE hero. It was , I recall, that showed the scene of rescuing a child from the piles of concretes, followed by active camara crews, driven by male CNN reporter. The anchor was proudly delivering the story with the typical confident tone of American news caster, saying "You will not see anything like this except CNN's ." In the other story, the reporter were showing where lost of Haitian were in long line to get on the free rescue ferry in worn-out boats in the ocean. He was interviewing the owner of the ferry, who was white and supposed to be warm-hearted world citizen, letting the refugees behind as a backgroun, symbolizing how hellish Haiti now was. CNN reporters are humaine, while Haitians are not; Haitians were merely rushing and struggling only to survive unlike civilized humain beings.

Even though Haitian children have lost their lives and they are in needs the most desperately, there were no adults amonog Haitians. They are all vunerable kids for the outer world, for the camera-carrying developed countries.