Release Date: April 2010
Growing up in the country, Ji-sook sees her father constantly abusing her mother until she goes away to Seoul for college and for work. Her mother’s treating her like a child gets on her nerves but her mother is always there for her, too. Finally married and with a daughter of her own, Ji-sook makes an unexpected trip to the country, is it just because she wants to see her mom, as she claims, or is there something wrong?
This film is a celebration of Korean motherhood, without a whole lot of plot, but I found it interesting in an anthropological sort of way. I found the mother’s overt favoritism for one child over the other disturbing, albeit that Korean mothers most usually have it reversed, favoring their sons and ignoring their daughters. The colors in the film were interesting: warm yellows and golds until Ji-sook delivers her shocking news, then blues and grays take over. The technologies of communication—from pagers to computers—used to indicate the passage of time were interesting, too. The mother’s role was acted a bit over the top, I kept reading things into her words that weren’t there. My take: C
At Ji-sook’s insistence, the daughter and mother
take a day trip to see the autumn leaves and have
a fancy lunch out (Park Jin-hee and Kim Hae-sook).
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