Shoot Me in the Heart | |
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Directed by | Mun Che-yong |
Produced by | Ju Pil-ho Bang Mi-jeong |
Written by | Mun Che-yong You Sun-dong |
Based on |
Shoot Me in the Heart by Jeong Yu-jeong |
Starring |
Lee Min-ki Yeo Jin-goo |
Music by | Kim Jun-seok |
Cinematography | Jo Yong-gyu |
Edited by | Kim Chang-ju Park Gyeong-suk |
Production
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Jupiter Film
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Distributed by | Little Big Pictures Isu C&M |
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Running time
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101 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Shoot Me in the Heart (Hangul: 내 심장을 쏴라; RR: Nae Simjangeul Sswara) is a South Korean film directed by Mun Che-yong, and starring Lee Min-ki and Yeo Jin-goo. It is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Jeong Yu-jeong, which won the Segye Literature Award in 2009.
Soo-myung and Seung-min, both 25 years old, meet for the first time at Soori Hope Hospital, a run-down psychiatric facility located on a mountain. Soo-myung has been institutionalized since he was nineteen after the trauma caused by his mother's suicide, and has a phobia of scissors. Seung-min is sane and a champion paraglider, but was forcibly committed by his greedy half-brother to get Seung-min's share of the family inheritance. Soo-myung is a model patient, peacefully and passively spending his days in the hospital despite its abusive nurses, unlike Seung-min, who is a walking time bomb. Soon, Soo-myung gets roped into Seung-min's reckless plan to break out of the hospital.
Filming began on May 1, 2014, and wrapped three months later on July 27 in Jeonju.