Release date: October 2011
The film focuses on the topic
of forgiveness. Da-hae lost her fiancé in a motorbike accident and, following
the demands of her Catholic faith, she forgave the 15-year-old boy who was the
driver in the hit-and-run accident. A year has gone by and she is making a
documentary on forgiveness by interviewing a series of victims who have “forgiven”
the perpetrators of the crimes against them or their loved ones. She begins to
realize that forgiveness may not be such a simple, one-shot done deal.
Meanwhile, her “adopted” little sister, Jimin, is suffering at the hands of a
violent and abusive father and is having her own issues with forgiveness.
A very
talky film. There is little action, beyond the climbing of a long flight of stairs,
and some rather ugly violence when Jimin is being beaten up by her family. I
found the heavy infusion of Catholicism, the struggles of victims to get
closure after granting “forgiveness”, and the heavy violence of Jimin’s family
depressing. There was a lot of repetition of themes and scenes, and a lot of
bopping back and forth between past and present and dream scenes. The talkiness
of the film, a lot of it being the interviews for the documentary being made,
did not capturing my interest. My
take: DD
Jimin and Da-hae, with all
Da-hae’s film gear, set off to do an interview.
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