It kind of grows in places where you can't grow anything else. I just thought there's something so poetic about the plant as well. But she loved seeing it in beauty, in the beauty of what we had in that time. And for my sister, she said that she had just blocked out so much from that time because she found it to be pretty difficult. And she said, finally, after watching this film, she could see my grandma in her dreams. She said that she was always jealous of me because I would always see my grandma in my dreams. never was able to see my grandmother in her dreams. It was really special, really incredible. And it just felt like it was such a cathartic experience for all of us. We watched the film together and slowly I just started to see my mom starting to weep, my sister, my dad. On watching the film with his family for the first time And I think it made my parents even more nervous that I was not coming completely clean to them, that I would not tell them, "This is our story." So they were super concerned until Thanksgiving of 2019 we had finished the cut and I just decided I have to get this out of the way and finally show them. This is great." And then she asked, "So what is she playing?" And I said, "Well, she's this grandmother." And then I told them, "And there's a mom and a dad and there are two kids and they live in a trailer home." And I didn't tell them that this is our family's story, but obviously my mom is starting to piece things together. So my mom just thought, "You finally made it. And she was always in our home when we were growing up. And they found out that Yuh-jung Youn, the actress, is on board and she is their favorite actor. I got financing." And they were more happy about that. So once we got financing to make this film, I just told my parents, "It looks like I can make another film. Pop Culture Happy Hour A Dream Challenges A Family In 'Minari' Every now and then, I would talk to my mom and kind of ask her some probing questions like, "Why did Grandma bring money from Korea? How did she get that money?" I would ask all these little details and my mom would say, "You're really taking an interest in your past." I think they were getting suspicious. So I wrote it and I didn't tell them anything. I figured, I'll tell them one day if this film gets made. But I just felt this real need to tell this story. They're private people, and I felt like I might be doing an injustice in some ways by writing a story about them and trying to represent their perspectives and stuff without letting them write it, not giving them the agency to write it. I was incredibly nervous about them finding out what I was doing. On keeping the project a secret from his family until it was finished I would hope that she would be seen, if that makes sense. I guess I just hope that this film would somehow capture who she was, someone who is invisible. 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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