| RATING: | 100% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Moving love story about disability - both physical and mental - and the social isolation of those who either choose to, or simply cannot, grow up.
Neither of the two families here can communicate with one another as effectively as they might because of the barriers of their respective disabilities. Thus finding someone to love is that much harder. The able-bodied here are unable to accept the autonomous desires of those they are responsible for and so exacerbate this difficulty.
This clever film gets its audience to root for a rapist as he tries cack-handedly to piece together his life by attempting to rape a disabled woman! That this involves more empathy than disgust - since the attempt bizarrely brings the central characters together - is a tribute to the brilliant acting and the (often magical realism) direction from Chang-dong LEE - which are both first class.
This disturbing and affecting romantic melodrama contains compelling and quite remarkable performances from Sol KYUNG-GU and Moon SO-RI along with a subtle mix of fantasy and stark realism. It does not draw too rigid a distinction between the two yet works just fine because it all makes emotional sense. Funny and heartbreaking in equal measure and genuinely jaw-dropping and emotionally-intense this film is laced with an underlying familial guilt and eventual redemption-through-love that will have you reaching for the Kleenex.
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