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SAVE THE GAME, which meticulously and ingeniously documents the history of Korean PC games from the rise of personal computers in the 1980s to the present, can be seen as a sequel to director Park Yoonjin’s previous work, People in Elancia (2020). While the earlier film observed trends in the gaming industry through the affectionate perspectives and dynamic activities of the players of the RPG game ‘Elancia’, SAVE THE GAME focuses on the history of the Korean gaming industry through the testimonies of industry professionals and historical materials. It is a clever and scrupulous documentary that systematically organizes the stories of the first-generation game developers, and summarizes the historical flow by varying the content of the introductory captions of these living witnesses of the Korean game industry.

The narrator writes a letter to the ghost of his grandfather wondering if his recurring childhood nightmare of rusted metallic image is related to the family history. After running a scrap metal factory in Tokyo during World War II, his grandfather ended up in Cheonggyecheon of Seoul where rundown small scale metal workshops still exist amidst the gentrifying city. Drawing clues from fragments of dreams and myths relating to the metal, the film reveals the secret alchemy of third world modernity in Cheonggyecheon where these obsolete hand labors still survive. The film attempts to reveal how we shape the metal through techniques such as sand casting and milling machines, only to find out that metals had already shaped us into beings of an industrial society instead.

현지인의 이야기를 담아내고, 동네의 맛을 오롯이 느끼는 길바닥 먹큐멘터리