Too Old Hip Hop Kid is a ‘hiphop documentary’ that the director made as he took the first step towards a new dream after having once dreamed of becoming a rapper. This is not simply a music documentary that records performance; its attribute is that it shows what ‘real hiphop’ is. The rhythm of the editing and the lines of the film contain the sense of hiphop, an art of ‘rhythm and poetry’(a chemical combination of hip hop and film). The film depicts the fluctuations and traces of 10 years in the lives of buddies who dreamed of hiphop 10 years ago(hiphop-a combination of film and life). So this film is a ‘youth film’ as well as a ‘coming-of-age film’ which portrays the image of a generation called ‘the anxiety generation’. The ‘hiphop kids’ in this film talk of the attractions of hiphop but therein lies diverse concerns, conflicts, and subtle differences in nuance. What is the true ‘hiphop spirit’ which is situated on the border between ‘hobby and work(or art)’, and ‘mainstream and underground’. The ‘Too Old Hip Hop Kid’ performance is moving in itself but the residual conflicts and concerns seem almost like romantic sutures. Could the sequel that the film promises be ‘old enough’ and not ‘too old’? It could just well may be.
