Most modern audiences will experience it very differently. In its time, the Seashore Village was presented to viewers as a stirring tale of doomed romance. His refusal to listen propels them both into a dangerous life, in which an onslaught of conflicting emotions and overwhelming experiences erode her sanity like waves beating up against the shore. When drifter Sang-soo (Shin Young-kyun) takes an interest in her, she desperately tries to get him to leave her alone. Continuing to live with his mother and his protective brother, she is thrust into a new way of life, joining a community of widows and diving for sea urchins in order to earn a meagre living, but her youth and beauty mean she faces constant pressure to get involved with another man. The heroine of this film, Hae-soon (Ko Eun-ah), has been married for just ten days when she loses her beloved husband to the sea. The trouble is that bad dreams about boats sinking are hardly a rarity, and sometimes the boats have to go out anyway, and when the sky darkens there is nothing for the women to do but beg the gods for mercy.
The Seashore Village is based in such a place, in a remote corner of Korea by the East Sea, where great store is set by dreams and omens. In every such settlement there are rituals, prayers, superstitions meant to keep the men safe, to bring them back.
Every coastal settlement, every fishing community has legends and songs about men lost at sea, about widows who spend their lives watching the shore and waiting for them to come back. For all that human cultures vary around the world, there are certain features that have more to do with environment than location.
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