Minari is an intimate, poignant, momentary and organically funny. Feels distance looking through a lens of every well written characters and performances. Extremely raw full of hope and pain, through boundless promises while storming through countless disasters; a semi-biography of writer-director Lee Issac Chung recollecting his upbringing farm life at Arkansas in the 80s. Thematically, Minari is a vegetable planted in this film represents resilient and plentiful growth if given a chance.
Although majority of the film in Korean language…
