「Sketch」 (3)
“When I was young, I was racially discriminated against because I was Asian at school, and I was sad that my parents and I had different skin colors and facial features, and I hated Korea. But it’s ironic, isn’t it? that it was made.”
“…don’t you have any memories of living in Korea?”
Jay pondered for a moment at Nari’s question.
“Well… when I was about 12 years old, I remembered my Korean name too, but I gradually forgot about it. I only remember when I was a child living with my mother in a very small single room, and I only remember the winding downhill road with the red brick walls.”
“Is there any information left at the adoption agency?”
“Yeah. He left me without leaving a record. He probably didn’t want to come back to him.”
At Jay’s words, Nari quietly nodded her head.
They did not give each other clumsy consolation.
They just talked quietly and listened to each other.
He sat quietly on the bank and watched the flowing stream.
On the screen, nothing was said and he sat quietly for about 10 seconds.
But none of the spectators who watched it felt uncomfortable or strange.
Rather, there were silent squeals and tears in the audience everywhere.
So far, I’ve had enough empathy for Jay and Nari on the screen, so I just quietly pondered the conversations I just had.
At that moment, Na-ri opened her mouth while looking at the darkened night sky.
“Jay, do you know how big our galaxy is?”
“Galaxy? Well. I never thought about it.”
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Nari said with her hands wide open.
“It takes 100,000 years from end to end at the speed of light.”
“It’s very big. It is said that light from the sun to the earth takes 7 minutes, so even if the sun bursts, you will only know 7 minutes later.”
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Nari nodded at Jay’s words and opened her eyes wide as if not to be surprised.
“By the way, there are about two trillion galaxies in the universe.”
Jay looked up at the night sky at a number that was hard to imagine.
“…not the sun, but the galaxy? We are like dust.”
“That’s right. From the point of view of the universe, we, the earth, and even the sun must be things that flash and disappear quickly.”
It’s a silly word, but Jay nodded his head seriously saying that it was true.
Seeing Jay like that, Nari spoke again.
“By the way, Shakespeare must have known that.”
“Shakespeare?”
When I asked her a random name, Na-ri looked at the grass across the stream and said.
“If you look at Sonnet 73 in Shakespeare’s poem, you will find this saying: “Love the things that will soon leave.” I didn’t expect you to leave so easily, so I regret it so much.”
Jay quietly looked at Nari.
Then Nari looked into Jay’s eyes and said.
“So I want you to find your mother. We’re leaving soon, and there’s no time to hesitate.”
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Normally, I would have just shook my head.
But, is it because of Inari?
Had I prayed for the power of sunset?
Or is it because of the memory of a nursery rhyme that I recently learned?
Jay felt his heart shake violently.
‘I want to know who you are. I want to meet you once. A person called mother…’
***
I went home with a lot of thought.
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Nari didn’t even talk about the story anymore, probably because she had guessed the complicated situation.
“Hey, Jaehee, are you here?”
“Grandmother. Good morning.”
“Oh.”
The next day, as he enters his grandmother’s house, Jay greets her with a slurred Korean pronunciation.
As Jay entered Nari’s studio, Nari hurriedly closed the Internet window.
“Ah! Jay is here. Oh, hello?”
“What? Did you see anything strange?”
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Nari’s face turned red at Jay’s words.
“No! I don’t see that.”
Jay, who had a playful sense of humor, approached the computer, snatched the mouse, and opened the Internet window.
“oh!”
“ah···.”
The thing that came up on the Internet window was the road view provided by the portal site.
It is a slope with red bricks winding down.
The Internet window has ten seemingly tabs, all different windows, but all brick roads.
“No, it just didn’t leave my head, so I looked for it…”
“Thank you. Nariya.”
Jay looked around the studio and looked up at the ceiling.
A ceiling full of glowing stars.
Jay seemed to see a galaxy beyond the universe, not a glowing star.
““Love the things that are going to leave soon.” I think the saying is right. I want to find the person who gave birth to me.”
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Nari’s face brightened at Jay’s words.
“Jay! Then look at this. How about it? Doesn’t it look like something here? The red brick wall meanders down the slope!”
Jay approached and looked at the monitor screen, and it was quite consistent with the path he remembered.
“Well, I guess that’s right…”
“Then how are you?”
When I clicked on another tab, another similar path came up.
“Nari, how many times did you find them?”
“Hehe, I found it because it was really fun.”
***
The two went on public transportation together and went directly to the place they saw through Road View.
On the way, on the bus or on the road, the two of them playing guitar and singing casually were uploaded to the Internet, and subscribers began to grow.
‘By the way, is that actress a real singer? The singing ability is considerable. Men are also quite good at handling musical instruments.’
It wasn’t just the on-screen subscribers who fell in love with the songs in the movie.
Franz Meyer, a film critic, fell in love with the movie at the theatre, and as he watched the movie, he fell in love with the songs that came out.
As the movie progressed, several songs came out, but the first time I thought of this was because I was so engrossed in the movie that I realized that the characters in the play were not actors, but actually young composers and vocals of an indie band.
As the journey to find the hometown where he lived with his mother in Jay’s memory progressed, more and more high-quality music began to come out.
“J. It’s okay to perform here.”
“Yes? Then our stage is here today.”
weekday lunch.
I came to a park located in the suburbs.
The two take out equipment from their bags and install them in the corner of the park.
At first, people with their heads sticking out to see what was going on noticed that they were going to perform as soon as they took out their equipment, and their eyes were full of anticipation.
“Baby, maybe they’ll sing.”
“Yes. There are a lot of equipment. Shall we take a video?”
At first, the songs started with gentle guitar accompaniment, but as they progressed, they began to play with the loop station to build complex harmonies using violins, guitars, and hand drums.
Jake, who fell in love with Sketch at the Potsdamer Platz Theatre, was genuinely surprised by what he saw on the screen.
‘Wow. It has the power of editing, but basically, that male actor is good at handling instruments.’
Jake is a film music director in Hollywood.
In his view, this film is not just pretending to play and not adding music.
In fact, the hand shapes of the actors all coincided with the notes.
‘Perhaps all the recording was done by the actors themselves.’
And as he traveled to find the place in his memory, Jake’s mouth widened as the performance progressed.
‘This is like a milestone.’
The first song in the movie is a song that Nari sang as a solo band at an indie festival.
Drums and keyboards were recorded, and the guitar was played clumsily by Nari.
The second song is the unfinished work that Jay listened to when he visited Nari’s studio after many twists and turns.
As Jay’s color was applied on top of it, the imperfect parts settled in harmony with each other.
The third is the songs that Jay and Nari sang together at the campsite busking.
Facing the sad memories of the past, I couldn’t finish the song in the end.
‘Then this is the fourth paragraph.’
The songs played during the trip to find Jay’s memories gradually improved, and no matter how complicated he used the Loop Station to play various instruments, Nari’s voice harmonized like a single instrument between them.
From clumsy solo bands to fantastic duos.
‘It shows the youth who are gradually growing up.’
The moment he understood the music code that runs through the entire movie, goosebumps rose on Jake’s arms.
***
“Isn’t this the last road we found?”
“yes···.”
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Nari, who had become slightly pale as she nodded at Jay’s question, raised her head again and tried to infuse energy.
“If it’s not here, we can find it again, so let’s not give up!”
“Yeah. It’s okay if you can’t find it. It was fun.”
At Nari’s appearance, Jay replied with a smirk.
I don’t know how many times already.
There must be so many ‘slopes where the red wall bends down’.
“I found out that many of the official residences and old schools had red brick walls.”
Jay nodded at Nari’s explanation.
The two get off the bus that arrives at their destination and wander through the alleys looking for a way with their smartphones.
“I think I’m here! How are you, Jay?”
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Nari carefully examines Jay’s face.
Looking carefully, Jay shakes his head.
“I don’t think it’s here. To be honest, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to find out if I find the path I remember now. I’m sorry, Nari.”
“It’s okay. Let’s find it again.”
At first, he started out curiously, but he doesn’t come out no matter how much he searches, so he feels like Nari is suffering in vain.
I looked down the alley to see if this road was right for me.
Again not
Jay looked at Nari because he was afraid, and Nari looked at him because he was afraid that Jay would be disappointed.
When there was silence for a while.
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Nari clapped her hands to see if she had a good idea and took out her smartphone.
“Jay!”
“yes?”
“I mean, you don’t want people to know about Jay’s story, do you?”
“No? I’m not at all ashamed of being adopted. My parents are wonderful people. I don’t care.”
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Nari took out her smartphone and held it out.
“Because we already have 60,000 subscribers?! Honestly, I won’t be on the famous axis, but would you like to believe in the power of collective intelligence?”
“Hmm. Well, it’s okay to ask for help, but it’s not your business, so do people bother?”
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Nari looked at Jay and shook her index finger.
“After all, Jay doesn’t know anything about Koreans yet. Koreans show great unity at times like this.”
Seeing Nari like that, Jay is skeptical.
“Think long, act fast!”
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Nari took out her smartphone and started shooting a video.
“Hello, subscribers. It’s the first time I’ve met you through a video of a song every time, and this is the first time I’ve spoken directly like this. I’m Nari and this guy next to me is Jay.”
The channel name is Narij, but it was the first time to introduce who is who.
It’s amazing that there are 60,000 people who subscribe to such a channel.
“The reason I filmed this video today is to help Jay.”
The story was explained with a brief introduction.
“That’s why Narij’s channel was created. Through the community tab, we’ll provide you with photos and email addresses for reference, so please let us know if there is a road like this near you!”
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Na-ri bowed her head, and Jay didn’t understand what the next person was saying, so she was stunned.
And Nari ends the video shoot.
Beside him, Jay tilted his head and said.
“Can I help you with this?”
Seeing the dubious Jay, Nari chuckled.
The next day was bright and the two sat down in front of the computer in Nari’s studio.
“Come on, it’s really two-to-one!”
“Double-tooth?”
“In Korea, it’s usually called dougougugu when it’s like this.”
“Okay. Dubudoo.”
When I opened the mailbox, it indicated that there were “99+” new mails.
“Wow, 99?”
“No, it’s said that there are more than 99. I see that there are 30 pages per page and up to 5 pages, so it’s almost 150!”
