Today I recommend a movie to you, the Korean film "I Can Say" with a Douban score of 8.8, this film won the Best Director and Best Actress of the 38th Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards in 2017, and in 2018, it won the 54th Baeksang Art Awards and the 55th Daejong Film Awards for the Best Actress and Best Actress.
The film presents a deep and heavy theme in an almost comedic form, and the first half of the film makes me think that this is a comedy of grandma learning English, but I did not expect that the purpose of learning English buried such a big theme of comfort women, and I cried several times during the period.
Curly curly hair, big red lips, Grandma Luo Yufan is not only fashionable but also a hot-blooded "youth", in charge of all kinds of "idle things", filling in "troubles" for the neighborhood, and increasing the burden for the government, so she has a nickname "Ghost Grandma". She has been focusing on reporting illegal acts in the community for many years, always carrying thick reporting materials on the way to the Letters and Petitions Office, and as soon as she sees her figure, the staff of the Letters and Visits Office are afraid to avoid it. Grassroots civil servant Park Minzai is arrogant and indifferent, strong in principle, and since coming to work at the Letter and Petition Office, he and his grandmother Luo Yufan have become "happy enemies".
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Wanting to talk to her brother who was far away in the United States and did not understand Korean at all, Grandma Luo Yufan began to learn English, although she applied for a cram school, but at the age of 70, her thinking and memory were dragging her feet, and the cram school did not agree with her to continue the class. Just at this time, she found that Park Min-jae's English level was extremely high, and she began to chase after him and asked him to help teach English. In order to completely break grandma Luo Yufan's entanglement, Minzai thought of the most decent way, asking grandma to memorize words, and if she could not reach 80 points, she would no longer teach.
Grandma memorized words late at night, so that watching the movie, I am very ashamed, young people, I have no such spirit of learning, but also self-comfort life is ordinary, others are like this. I suddenly remembered hao veterinarian's words in "My Regiment Leader My Regiment" that bothered me, "Annoyed, you are only 24 years old, how come you have begun to compare with others?" Yeah, how did I start to compare myself to others.
The ending is obvious, Grandma only scored 75 points, and Minzai finally got rid of Grandma Luo Yufan. But Min Zai also has his own troubles, and his brother, who is in adolescence, is very rebellious and can't even communicate well. One day on the way to work, he followed his brother all the way, found that he was actually eating dinner at Luo Yufan's grandmother's house, and he was very grateful and sorry in his heart, and Minzai decided to start teaching his grandmother English. Joyful learning English, joyful and enemy family relationship is getting closer and closer, more like a family.
This is the first half of the joy, and of course the climax is in the second half.
Conflict erupted when Min-jae learned that Grandma's brother didn't want to talk to the phone or see her at all, and he roared out in a hoarse voice. Grandma was so disappointed that she couldn't believe it.
On the other hand, Grandma Yufan learned that her friend Yuxin was hospitalized for Alzheimer's disease, and looked at the sisters who loved the same sisters and had the grace of saving lives lying on the hospital bed without any reaction, and Grandma Yufan could not calm down inside. In the end, she decided not to be silent, no longer to hide, but to bravely stand up and denounce the crimes committed by the Japanese. It turned out that Grandma Yufan and Grandma Yuxin were both victims of Japanese comfort women, and in order to keep her mother's promise, Grandma buried this secret in her heart for decades and prepared to take it to the coffin. But Grandma Yuxin has been running on the front line of the comfort women incident.
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Minzai also finally understands that Grandma learning English is not just about communicating with her brother, but because she is doing greater things. When choosing to stand up bravely, it means to uncover the scars that have been scabs in the past, but also to bear the strange eyes of the people around her, and the lovely neighbors gave her the warmest encouragement and support. The little girl who sold hooves secretly stuffed the few dollars into the crack of the door, and the big mother complained bitterly about why she didn't tell herself about it earlier, and no one shared her loneliness and pain for so many years.
Grandma Luo Yufan finally went to the United States, stood in the parliament hall, complained about the crimes of Japan, and she used a non-standard pronunciation to state the truth of the facts with all her strength, and said how many comfort women's inner voices "We don't want much, just want an apology."
Looking at Grandma's speech, tears, our nation has suffered too much, our country also has a lot of comfort women victims, some of them have not been able to wait for a word of apology in their lives, these people are leaving one by one...
To remember history is to remind us that the tragedies of the past cannot be repeated...