The awakening of a woman, she wants to be a human being, and wants to live as a human being. So suddenly, she dresses, speaks, and thinks differently than before. She broke up with her engaged and successful boyfriend, left law school arranged by her father to study art, and moved out to live on her own, severing ties to her past. Then she meets him, a man who pursues a dream very different from his past contacts. They fell in love, got married, maybe thinking about having kids... bang... and then everything changed.
She lost her memory and lost her memory for 5 years. She forgot her pursuit, her life, her life with him. She returned to the self she was 5 years ago, the law school student who was disciplined, the rich girl with a happy family. For a patient recovering from a brain injury, a relaxed atmosphere without thinking too much about other things. Just go shopping, catch up with high school classmates at nightclubs, flirt with ex-fiance who broke up 5 years ago because that's all she remembers, these are the only memories of her past. She used to study law and only remembered these things. Her father also arranged everything, so she didn't have to worry about anything. Such an easy life, she doesn't have to think, remember, work, and struggle. Even for an ordinary woman, why not live like this? Fewer responsibilities, easier life...?
She forgot what happened 5 years ago or even longer, the thing that made her say goodbye to everything in the past, the thing that made her think back to her past life, what she was... She didn't want to live like that, she wanted to live as a person.
The seemingly easy and arranged life was like her mother's life, the life her mother chose to forgive her father who had an affair with his daughter's friend. She doesn't want a life of passive choice, a life she wants to pursue actively.
Perhaps neither sudden events nor amnesia can change the moment of women's awakening. Although society is developing slowly but still changing, a woman will always wake up at a certain moment, she does not want to be a male woman, she wants to be a person, a real person, and she wants to truly live for herself.
The drama of the movie brings them back together at the end, not the old way back to the beginning, but the new beginning. This time, she was not forced to change by sudden and unacceptable things, but actively chose life, accepted the change and forgiven her life.
When a woman truly lives as a human being, she can find her own passion, her own life, and, of course, true love.
Living as a person may be a matter of course for men. When a girl's growth is influenced by how much family/society/public opinion, it is not true equality when it is said that men and women are equal.
The male protagonist in the film may be like an ideal male who respects, understands and loves her. A person who doesn't want to take her for himself, as long as she is happy and gives love. Women are growing, and I believe men are growing too, so I think there will be more and more men like this.
A passage about my mother in the film: "I choose to forgive a man who has done a lot of right things in the past and one wrong thing." It sounds like a great thing, maybe it's forgiving on a certain level. But that's just an option. There are many options in this matter, and everyone has a choice for themselves. The heroine finally had a showdown with her father. Her father thought she was going to lose her again, but she chose to hug. I don't think it's the same as her mother's forgiveness, and she's moving into her new life...
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