Showing posts with label manshin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manshin. Show all posts

Thursday, November 14, 2013

DMZ Docs 2013 Review: Unique Shaman Doc Manshin is a Sensory Thrill


I’ve been a keen fan of Korean films for over a decade and have now spent about a year and a half living within the country’s borders, yet, though I’ve been exposed to it many times, shamanism stubbornly remains a difficult part of the nation’s heritage to get to grips with. Mystical and echoing an ancient way of life, it is not merely something that fallen in stature due to the ravages of time, it is a facet of Korean culture that requires a different way of thinking.