"Soup and Ideology" Director Yang Yong-hee Depicts the moment when a mother's cooking transcends nation and ideology [Director's Interview Vol.213]

The moment when my mother's soup transcended ideology

Q: Has your mother found it easier to talk about the Jeju April 3 Incident now that Mr. Arai has become part of her family?

Yang: Arai is a freelance writer whose job is to write interview articles, so he's very good at listening. Also, when my mother talks to me, she gets stuck in a rut and leaves out stories at random. However, since the other person is Japanese, and especially since he is a new member of my family, I started to talk to him very politely and a lot. I started talking to Arai not only about ``April 3'' but also about my mother's childhood and many other things. Arai keeps coming up with interesting stories about Arai, so I started going to my mother's place in Osaka often by myself, even when I wasn't doing interviews. Arai especially liked his mother's chicken soup, and he said, ``It was really delicious, so I'm going to practice.'' He practiced in Tokyo, and even made it for his mother, just like in the movie.

Normally, people say, ``I'll pass on my mother's taste to my daughter,'' but my daughter is always running the camera, so I don't even help her. My husband practiced harder than me, so I thought that was a good story (lol). He did a great job of filling in the strained relationship between me and my mother.

“Soup and Ideology” (C) PLACE TO BE, Yang Yonghi

Q: I could feel that from the screen. I felt that Mr. Arai's personality was opening up his mother's heart.

Yang: Even though I grew up eating my mother's home-cooked meals, I had a strong sense of opposition to her because of our different ideologies. It felt like ideology was more important than soup. Arai, of course, has a different ideology than my parents. But scones with soup! I went beyond ideology. I looked at it and said, "Great job!" I thought, ``I couldn't do this, but maybe I can do it with him.''

As individuals, we will never be able to defeat the system, and individuals will be crushed in conflicts and conflicts such as wars that occur due to ideological differences. But in the movie, I want Soup to win. That's why I don't think this movie would have been possible without Arai.

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