Synopsis

Like the director himself, ARROVED FOR ADOPTION is hybridization of things: animation and live actions, 3D figures and 2D backgrounds, fiction and autobiography. The cartoonist-director Jung tells his story of finding his ethnic and cultural roots in the form of an autobiographical animation. He is a Korean born adopted son raised in Belgium, who distrusted anything from his own roots and developed an obsession for the Japanese culture as a means to assert his essential Asian nature. His trip to Korea is one of reconciliation to his ancestral and cultural roots as well as to himself. The hand-drawn animation now turns into a film, becoming ultimate expression of what started as the mere scribblings of the little boy trying to find his place in the world.

故事簡介

身份和內容決定形式，歐洲+亞洲+養子+混血兒+動畫+自傳+紀錄片+3D的cross-over，雜到不能再雜的電影既是內容又是形式。榮格是韓裔比利時動畫師，5歲在首爾街頭流浪時被警察發現，後來給比利時家庭收養，同樣身世的韓裔嬰兒遍布世界。兒時拿起紙筆亂塗，成為書寫成長經歷，文化衝突，身份矛盾的工具。電影記錄了榮格返回韓國尋根的旅程，養子回歸母親祖國的懷抱，既認同又抗拒。矛盾的身份和心情，看在我們眼裡，似曾相識。