{"product_id":"153096","title":"Before the lights turn on ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQt5mWvZitNfzH7QAiSKmY.png?v=1764956505\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Before the lights turn on \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/152656785\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe feelings left behind after the movie ends\u003cbr\u003e On Why We Love Movies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cine21 reporter Kim So-mi's first collection of essays, \"Before the Lights Turn On,\" has been published by Maumsanchaek. \u003cbr\u003eKim So-mi is a film journalist with nine years of experience, mediating between films and audiences through writing, speech, critique, and conversation.\u003cbr\u003e With precise sentences and thoughtful progression, “trusted by both filmmakers and viewers” ​​(reporter Kim Hye-ri), in this book, he tells the story of the allure of movies that keeps viewers glued to their seats until the lights come on, and the life of a film reporter that begins after the film ends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Starting from his childhood when he first fell in love with movies while watching the horror film “Ju-on,” to his college days when he dreamed of becoming a film director, to his current status as the head of the Cine21 reporting team, his journey captures the expansion of a “viewer” into a person who “sees, listens, writes, and speaks.”\u003cbr\u003e As a film journalist, watching films, listening to interviewees, meeting deadlines every week, and meeting audiences through GV create fleeting beauty even amidst the pressure and fatigue.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book captures a love for cinema that persists despite the fact that watching movies has become a daily routine. In an era where the rise of OTT platforms and the rise of short-form video have raised concerns about the potential demise of movie theaters, following reporter Kim So-mi's memories and thoughts about film offers a hopeful glimpse into the future of cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before the theater lights come on, time passes even though the movie is over.\u003cbr\u003e According to this book, for Kim So-mi, that time is not much different from the sum total of her life.\u003cbr\u003e From the time he was a little boy, covering his sorrow with the chilling blanket of \"Ju-on,\" to the present day, when he is a journalist trusted by both filmmakers and viewers, the author revisits almost every piece of himself—sometimes sparkling, sometimes poignant—through films.\u003cbr\u003e I can't believe that's possible! I'm so jealous.\u003cbr\u003e - Kim Hye-ri, film reporter\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e  \u003cli\u003eYou can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first light I encountered\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If we can come from\u003cbr\u003e Respond to the movie while shaking\u003cbr\u003e Independence-Connection-Sadness\u003cbr\u003e Second best job\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanding at the edge of the movie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of many people who make one book\u003cbr\u003e Who needs you?\u003cbr\u003e Seeing movies in a different way\u003cbr\u003e The film In Praise of the Wandering\u003cbr\u003e When the interviewer climbs the stairs\u003cbr\u003e Far away but close\u003cbr\u003e Look straight ahead\u003cbr\u003e In case you have to use it\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurviving the Darkness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Favorite thing\u003cbr\u003e To the point of failure\u003cbr\u003e Beginner's Stopover - Cannes Film Festival Report Part 1\u003cbr\u003e Embarrassing mistakes of living people\u003cbr\u003e Bake and cool\u003cbr\u003e A lonely and brave gathering\u003cbr\u003e Sloppily and meticulously\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople Waiting for Darkness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'll go get some fresh air.\u003cbr\u003e Random support for the story\u003cbr\u003e The need for a totem\u003cbr\u003e Sleeping movies\u003cbr\u003e Double-printing of front and back\u003cbr\u003e Countries That Don't Require a Passport - Cannes Film Festival Report Part 2  \u003cbr\u003eA place for hiding\u003cbr\u003e The Chimera Effect - Cannes Film Festival Report Part 3\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate5595\/MidCate003\/559426757(1).png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e In a place where the blessed beings called spectators resonate with one another, everyone becomes less immersed.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After watching a good movie, you want to hear other people's stories about it.\u003cbr\u003e There are times when just that excitement is enough for a few hours or even days.\u003cbr\u003e The film's running time of just over two hours often extends its life through the various reactions of those who responded to it (not limited to criticism or reviews, but countless pieces of reaction from online communities).\u003cbr\u003e --- p.29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We often call the overwhelming feeling we get after watching a great movie \"emotion,\" but in some cases it's closer to an impulse. \u003cbr\u003eFor the first time, I felt the urge to live with a better heart because of the movie, the feeling that my life would unfold more properly in the future.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As far as I know, every audience member lives a 'life after the movie' for a while.\u003cbr\u003e Could we call that 'being alive'?\u003cbr\u003e We are alive when we feel a surge of desire for adventure, a yearning to fall in love, a vitality that drives us to live our lives more intensely, and a destructive desire to become more free or debauched.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.31-32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But the light of the movie begins right then.\u003cbr\u003e The audience's eyes are the last physical device through which the film awakens.\u003cbr\u003e In a theater, in someone's small room, the life of this medium is dramatically extended.\u003cbr\u003e The fact that countless viewers remember the potential images formed on their retinas while watching a film gives the act of watching a movie a secret fascination. \u003cbr\u003e--- p.32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If we love something, we are willing to go to the periphery.\u003cbr\u003e And then you realize that that's actually the center.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.54-55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Watching a movie is also about getting used to the ending credits.\u003cbr\u003e The end credits, a black-and-white image for those who are not the main characters but the owners, are a time preserved to convey the fact that more people than expected were involved in the completion of something.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The audience is always a space for freedom rather than constraint.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Some people go into the cinema to cry.\u003cbr\u003e I am no exception someday.\u003cbr\u003e The theater is one of the few social spaces that naturally tolerates adult tears.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.107-108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But now I must step back from the position of short-sightedness and admiration and write.\u003cbr\u003e It must be written properly.\u003cbr\u003e Because you became my knight.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In cases where we must use it, the object helps us. \u003cbr\u003eIt comes in the form of affection that grows stronger the more you know it, as a pleasure that makes you forget about what you have to do for a moment, as someone's low, affectionate voice and a few words in a letter.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All films are made to be enjoyed, and the one who most faithfully protects the reason for the existence of films is always the audience.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e People who invent their own mise-en-scène in life do not easily become old.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a modern sense, the theater can become a world of voluntary pause.\u003cbr\u003e The audience that hopes to arrive here is one that seeks solace in a world that relentlessly impels us, and one that is willing to endure stagnation.\u003cbr\u003e Cinemas are now more than just spaces for entertainment and art; they are places for active disengagement from the conveyor belt.\u003cbr\u003e This is precisely the utility of theater that must be reexamined in this time of theater crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.225\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRespect for the ending credits\u003cbr\u003e Collaboration between 'us' to complete 'my' work\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kim So-mi, a journalist who studied film in college to become a film director, took part in the inaugural issue of the film magazine \"anno.\" as an editor in 2013, and decided to make a career out of standing on the edge of film and adding the language of criticism rather than making films herself.\u003cbr\u003e As I create a magazine with colleagues I meet outside the school walls and sell it through Unlimited Edition, my focus, which had been focused on myself, gradually expands to include others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After becoming a reporter for Cine21, the author repeatedly realizes that deadlines are achieved through the collaboration of colleagues.\u003cbr\u003e After much deliberation, you submit the final manuscript, which is then polished by a proofreader and editor before it is published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe word 'colleague' encompasses not only those who work together to create a magazine, but also those who are the subjects of interviews or reports.\u003cbr\u003e When writing the obituary of the late actor Song Jae-ho, who passed away in 2020, I look into his filmography and consider the messages left by those who worked with him, including director Bong Joon-ho.\u003cbr\u003e For the author, writing an article is an act of listening to the voices of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Colleagues' also tolerate mistakes.\u003cbr\u003e The author accidentally leaves out half of the poems written by poet Jin Eun-young, which he received at her request on the 10th anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster, but Jin Eun-young consoles him, saying that anyone can do that because she is faced with “something that is difficult to endure even after 10 years.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The feeling of watching the end credits of a movie all the way to the end, the gaze that follows the pages listing the names of those who participated in the creation of a magazine, is love. \u003cbr\u003eThe author confirms his love by standing next to the film and watching it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Watching a movie is also about getting used to the ending credits.\u003cbr\u003e The end credits, a black-and-white image for those who are not the main characters but the owners, are a time preserved to convey the fact that more people than expected were involved in the completion of something.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - In the text\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCitizens of a country where 'passport-free' movies are allowed\u003cbr\u003e Each of us, lost in solitude, completes our own film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Watching a movie is often perceived as an act of immersing oneself in solitude and encountering the film in a darkened space.\u003cbr\u003e In this book, reporter Kim So-mi tells us, through her personal experience as a \"viewer\" and the landscapes she encountered as a film reporter, that the reason we love movies is because watching them is a communal experience shared with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe author's chronicle as an audience member begins with watching the movie \"Ju-on\" recommended by the owner of \"Dooly Video\" in Daegu.\u003cbr\u003e The author, who used to soothe the sadness of his childhood by escaping into the eeriness of horror films, approaches film more deeply by looking at the works of those who intertwine life and film, such as Krzysztof Kieślowski and Agnes Varda.\u003cbr\u003e From this point on, after watching a movie, I searched online, read articles in movie magazines, and exchanged opinions with people around me, making the experience of watching a movie a shared one.\u003cbr\u003e Film is a medium that, more than any other art form, evokes a strong desire to “project one’s own feelings into the collective experience.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs a film journalist, standing between the screen and the audience, commenting on films, the author directly encounters the audience and witnesses the potential of a community formed through the medium of film.\u003cbr\u003e At 1 a.m., after returning home from the GV of the movie “Cleo’s World” with writer Jihye Yoo, who wrote “Friendship Thief,” the alarm in the open chat room where over 100 people still remained rings.\u003cbr\u003e One night, while everyone was asleep, an audience member knocked on the door to share more stories related to the movie.\u003cbr\u003e The audience's knock is a friendly reply, a one-line link that carries the music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Film festivals, which are events where people who love movies gather and enjoy themselves together, also provide this kind of experience.\u003cbr\u003e The 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