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Aniyah 2022-01-19 08:02:40

The protagonist Miko (played by Yoon Jingji) is a 65-year-old woman who lives in a small town. Every day, she will dress herself spotlessly and go out to do nursing work. As she grows older, her memory slowly declines, but she still works hard in a poetry class. Her life seems to be peaceful, but there are many unspeakable things, such as the disabled elderly man she looked after forced to have sex with her in the bathtub; there was also a girl because of her grandson and a group of unhealthy things. The boy committed suicide after raped. Fortunately, reading poems under the light every night can make her forget these unhappiness. At the end of the poetry class, everyone needs to write a poem and hand in homework. On the way to apologize to the girl who committed suicide, she was attracted by the wild flowers on the road, beautiful poems came to her mind, but she forgot what she was going to do

Director Li Cangdong always cares about the real lives of ordinary people. The film focuses on the inner world of elderly women. Unlike previous works, Miko, as the protagonist, is not at the core of the important events in the film. She is neither a "victim" nor a "harmful", but as an intervener, using her eyes to observe all around her.

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Extended Reading
  • Ellen 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    In the afternoon, the sun shone on me, and after reading the "poem", I lay on the sofa and quickly fell asleep. In my dream, I became the lame policeman who tainted poetry. I received a report that a girl committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. I went to comfort her mother first. I saw many pictures of the girl in her house. She was so beautiful. A colleague told me that the girl was pregnant when she died. I visited the school and found six boys who had hurt her. They were alive as if nothing was wrong. I was so angry that I wanted to pull out a gun and kill these beasts. But then I got to know the grandma of one of the little beasts, she was in the choir like me, she had attended the girl's funeral, and she was also very sad and didn't know how to make up for that lost life. She and other parents put together a sum of money to give to the family of the deceased. She also wrote a poem to greet the deceased girl. I was very moved when I read it. In the end, she sent her grandson to the detention center, and I was still going to kill the rest. When the five little beasts were on the loose, when they were about to do something, my colleague called me, and the old grandmother also committed suicide in that river.

  • Ulises 2022-03-15 09:01:08

    In the movie, the older generation has amnesia, the middle generation is missing, the younger generation commits crimes, and the family often appears in an incomplete state, reflecting Korean society. Li Cangdong also loves to be a metaphor on the gender level. Women are men's eternal otherness. Sex appears in the form of violence and internalized violence, reappearing in the form of property damage, revisited scenes and tabletop photos, forming trauma. Poetry, as the embodiment of purity and beauty, cannot be profaned.