Release date: January 2010
Fifty-year-old Hyeong-man
is solitary by nature and still a bachelor. He spends his time running a camera
repair shop and out taking photographs. An old friend who is dying of cancer
requests that Hyeong-man keep an eye on his daughter, Nam-eun. When Hyung-man
later meets Nam-eun, she is a pretty twenty-something college student but with
definite mental and emotional problems. She develops a romantic fixation on him
and, with some starts and stops, their May-December romance blossoms. But
things will not always go smoothly.
An overly long (117 minutes) and rather purposeless film. The
filmmakers were interested in a May-December romance but, beyond that, there
was not much plot or much else in the film to catch my interest. The film could
be seen as a character study of an interesting person—the reclusive and
introspective Hyeong-man—but within the context of the romance, the film didn’t
really go anywhere with that. The cinematography was awesome and the music
interesting but the song-and-montage sequences went on and on and on. My take: DC
Hyeong-man (Ahn Seong-gi) makes his first
visit to his old
friend’s daughter (Lee Ha-na).
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