Minari is a story about family.
4 min readJul 22, 2021
Minari tells the story of the Yi family, a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas with the intention of growing a farm in the 1980s.
While writing this review, I found out that the story is semi-autobiographical as is it loosely based on the director, Lee Issac Chung’s own rural upbringing and while I am not going to say that it is overtly obvious, it feels personal. And like the title…