My first good movie of 2010! You should really catch this South Korea's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. Kim Hye-Ja, who played the leading role, Mother, won the Best Actress Award at 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The movie also competed in 2009 Cannes Film Festival!
How can you miss it?!
Hye-ja is a ginseng vendor and an unlicensed acupuncturist in a small town in southern South Korea. She dotes on her son, Do-joon, who is 27, unemployed, and mentally incapacitated on some level, which Hye-ja seems to ignore. A high school girl is found dead on the roof of an abandoned building, and the local detectives arrest Do-joon based on circumstantial evidence. They coerce him to sign a confession and quickly imprison him. Hye-ja, distraught and convinced he is innocent, searches for the real killer, uncovering many secrets from the townspeople.
"I want to make the saddest yet most beautiful crime drama ever. At the center of this story is a small and weak mother who stands alone, a woman who gazes in a vague direction with obsessive eyes, a woman so determined that she can’t even stop herself. As she drags up and cracks open the dark, damp secrets, one by one, slowly the sadness and the beauty of her story will come to light."
- Director Bong Joon-Ho
If the above is not enough to entice you, you should really check out Won Bin! This handsome hot dude, fresh from the army, has definitely matured over the years! Check out his role of the mentally challenged Do-Joon. I have new found love for Won Bin now! =D
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