One of the most compelling aspects of the film is how it began. Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung was struggling with his career and decided to follow the advice of author Willa Cather to "cease to admire and begin to remember."
He spent an afternoon in a library writing down 80 memories from his childhood on a farm in rural Arkansas. Minari
These memories—like the smell of freshly plowed soil or his grandmother planting a Korean vegetable by a creek—became the building blocks for the script. My “Minari”: On Asian American Immigrant Cinema One of the most compelling aspects of the