I don’t know why.” Across 24 feature films in as many years, South Korean writer/director Hong Sang-soo has continually experimented with the possibilities of cinematic time, bending and breaking its rules in an unflashy, irresolvable manner far from the self-seriousness of Christopher Nolan-these are films to inhabit rather than unlock. His filmography is riddled with bifurcated structures, repeated scenes, dreams, flashbacks, and do-overs, never simply proceeding from points A to B without exploring the rest of the alphabet first. But at the end, we cannot escape from this frame of mind, because our brain evolved this way. I think you don’t have to experience life like that, necessarily, as a species. “Our brain makes up our mindframe of time continuity: past, present, future. HILL OF FREEDOM (2014, South Korea, 67 minutes, English and Korean with English subtitles) “Time is not a real thing, like your body, my body, or this table,” a Japanese man confides in English to a Korean woman after a few too many drinks. Police, officials and the parents of the girl praised Perez and other good Samaritans and citizens who aided the search and took action to find the girl.The UW Cinematheque's free series of view-at-home movies continues this week with a marvelously inventive gem from one of South Korea's most acclaimed and prolific artists: Hong Sang-soo's Hill of Freedom. Charges against him will include kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual assault, Dyer said. By then, Perez had a partial license plate number, which he gave to dispatchers, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.Ībout 40 minutes later, police caught up with the truck, now parked, and arrested Gregorio Gonzalez, 24, of Fresno. He yelled for residents to get the girl a blanket. The chase had taken him about a mile from his house and into another neighborhood. She was wearing a Winnie the Pooh sweater, he said. Perez got out of his vehicle and stayed with the girl. Perez said he believes the driver pushed her out. Immediately after the truck stopped, the girl was out. Perez - who admitted he did wonder at some point whether the motorist had a gun - pulled up to the truck a third, and then a fourth time, when he blocked the pickup truck. "I kept telling him, 'That's not your little girl,'" said Perez. The second time Perez pulled up to the Chevy, he saw the little girl, her head popping up from below view, and knew something was wrong. One time, the driver told him, "I don't have no time. Perez tried to cut off the vehicle several times to question the driver. He jumped into his 1988 white Ford pickup and followed the vehicle. "I thought, that could be the truck," Perez, a father of two boys, told CNN Tuesday night. Perez, 29, tuned in to television news coverage of the abduction, paying attention to the description and video of the suspect's pickup truck.Īt about 6:45 a.m., Perez was outside his house talking with his cousin about the abduction when they saw a vehicle matching that description: an older-model, reddish-brown Chevrolet with a white stripe on the side. (CNN) - Some may call it chance, but Victor Perez believes a higher power was involved Tuesday when he chased after a vehicle suspected of carrying an abducted 8-year-old girl in Fresno, California.Ī construction carpenter by trade until work slowed down, Perez has been recently cutting wine grapes, earning minimum wage.Įarly Tuesday, there was a light rain, making that task unlikely. ![]() ![]() KFSN reports on the abduction of the 8-year-old Fresno girl. When he saw the girl in the truck, he says, he pulled in front of it to cut it off.Perez: "I kept telling him, 'That's not your little girl'".Perez said that when he saw the suspect's truck, he chased it.NEW: Victor Perez says the incident just now sinking in.
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