1950年代,美国女性的社会地位表面看来有了明显提高,然而在如威斯理般著名的女子大学里,教师们教授学生,仍是一切围绕将来的好姻缘打转,并不鼓励她们主动获取自己感兴趣的知识,也不注重培养她们的心里素质。美丽成熟的凯瑟琳(朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)大学毕业,怀揣理想和热情来到该学校担 任艺术史教师时,便因想散播自由的种子碰壁连连。
然而因为风趣、率直、热情、渊博,凯瑟琳很快赢得了学生们的喜爱,她的几个学生,想同男孩一样干出一番事业的琼(朱丽娅·斯蒂尔斯 Julia Stiles 饰)、活泼好动的丽薇(玛吉·吉伦哈尔 Maggie Gyllenhaal 饰)等,也慢慢地展露出真性情。然而,另一名学生贝蒂(克斯汀·邓斯特 Kirsten Dunst 饰)要结婚的消息,又将自由浪漫的氛围打破。
Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children.
More than once, the protagonists in Mimang wonder where they are and where they’re going—it is a concrete, geographical question born from walking around the streets of Seoul, but as the film progresses, that urban journey also proves to be an existential one. We accompany the characters in some stretches of their path—many years separate each of the episodes that make up the film, and that distance reveals changes through what remains. This is not a film about earthquakes, but about small transformations, and the marks of time can be seen not only in the actors’ bodies, but also in that other omnipresent protagonist that is Seoul, whose vitality invades every shot. Like others before him (it’s inevitable to think about Truffaut or Linklater), here, Kim Taeyang reminds us that cinema is the best time machine that has been invented so far.
Two great friends are reunited after five years. Among so many things that have changed, the resumption of connection awakens an old feeling for which they remain unprepared.