"Can you understand?"
"Just by listening to the sound, you know it's a sad story."
- "I Can Say"
Ms. Luo Yufan is a good citizen with a great sense of justice.
She loves to fight all grievances, uphold all kinds of justice, and is especially good at reporting wrongdoing to the government.
But in the eyes of others, she is a nosy old woman.
But in fact, such a positive sunshine she also has unspeakable pain and grief.
Ms. Luo Yufan is the protagonist of the movie "I Can Say", which is a comedy film directed by Kim Hyun-seok and starring Luo Wenji and Lee Dixun.
The film tells the story of Luo Yufan, a grandmother with a great sense of justice, who wants to communicate with her brother in the United States, so she learns English from the young civil servant Park Min-jae, and finally accuses the Japanese army of forcibly recruiting "comfort women" in English.
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Ms. Luo Yufan is not young, to the point where she can be called Grandma Luo.
Grandma Luo lives alone, but her life is not necessarily lonely, she has never been idle—
She loves to fight and hug, and she occupies stalls, does not wear helmets, and throws cigarette butts are all important targets of her report to the petitioning department.
She has also become the person that the petitioning department is most afraid of seeing on her own, and every time she comes, experienced workers always have to narrow their sense of existence and not be targeted by her.
Only the new commissioner Park Min-jae is not afraid of Grandma Luo, and can argue with Grandma Luo for a few words.
After coming and going, Xiao Pu became a commissioner who specially received Grandma Luo.
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Grandma Luo has a good friend for many years, speaks English, travels the world and has met many exotic friends.
This made Grandma Luo very envious, and she also wanted to learn English.
So she studied on TV and followed the class, but the effect was not satisfactory.
Grandma Luo, who was dropped out of the study class, accidentally saw a young man fluent in English communicating with foreigners, and she seemed to see hope.
Looking closer, it turned out that the person was Xiao Pu, the new commissioner of the petitioning department, and Grandma Luo was very happy, and let Xiao Pu be her English teacher and teach her English.
After being rejected many times, Grandma Luo still did not give up, and even went to Xiao Pu's office and sat across from him to read and study by herself.
Xiao Pu's colleagues couldn't stand it first, and also helped Grandma Luo intercede, let him teach her, and take her away.
In desperation, Xiao Pu was finally willing to teach Grandma Luo English.
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Grandma Luo is also very serious about studying, and under the guidance and teaching of Xiao Pu, there has also been some progress.
Now, Grandma Luo can order in English, sing English songs, and talk to foreigners in coffee shops...
In the contact with Grandma Luo, Xiao Pu and Grandma Luo can also understand each other and gradually become friends for the year.
Xiao Pu also learned that her grandmother also had a younger brother who lived in the United States, and she studied English in order to be able to contact her brother.
But Grandma Luo dialed the phone and listened to the English greeting from the other side, she could easily understand it, but she couldn't respond to a word.
On the other end of the phone was her brother, who was far away.
Because Xiao Pu did not know the real situation, he also dialed the number, explained his intentions, but was interrupted by the other party's indifferent words.
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Grandma Luo suddenly received the news that her friend was sick and hospitalized.
She had Alzheimer's disease and couldn't remember anything, didn't know Grandma Luo, and didn't remember a souvenir that was important to them, a handkerchief.
Grandma Luo was very uncomfortable, and she couldn't imagine that her friend had forgotten everything.
Especially that handkerchief —
It was a testimony to the two people encouraging each other to live when they were only teenagers, when they were forced to become comfort women.
Over the years, Grandma Luo's friends have also devoted themselves to telling the world about this history, daring to uncover scars and accuse the Japanese...
There was an important hearing about to begin, and at this time, she had Alzheimer's disease.
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In the ward, there were reporters visiting, and Grandma Luo also decided to stand up.
Her story was spread by the newspapers, and she also went to her mother's grave to tell her heartache.
Because she was forced to become a comfort woman, she never received the love and comfort of even her family in her life.
She understood that in addition to her own dignity and humiliation, it was also related to how the world viewed the "comfort women".
So Grandma Luo was more determined to learn English.
Because she was going to stand in the world's largest international hearing in place of her friend, accusing Japanese soldiers of their crimes and telling the truth.
Easy-going, Grandma Luo learned English, applied for a visa, prepared and practiced speeches, and was busy, and the day of the hearing was coming.
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After arriving in the United States, problems followed.
Before the hearing, the Japanese even had some doubts about Grandma Luo's identity, because when the identity of the "comfort woman" was registered, Grandma Luo did not report it in order to hide it.
But she went to the hearing anyway, where she heard complaints from "comfort women" from various countries and the funny and forceful rebuttals of the audience's witnesses.
When grandma Luo arrived, sure enough, because of the identity problem, the Japanese used identity suspicion to prevent her from speaking and asked her to come up with evidence.
At this time, Xiao Pu also appeared, and he cheered Grandma Luo up, using the simple sentences they often said before learning English.
Grandma Luo took a long breath, and at this moment she was no longer afraid, and she lifted her clothes, and her belly was full of scars and marks—obviously, this was the best evidence.
Everyone was shocked, and at this time Grandma Luo began to accuse the Japanese of their crimes, and the words were convincing.
She was touched by countless "comfort women" who had the same experience, and even the hearing officers who sat in the audience and questioned her at the beginning applauded her. He also apologized one by one at the end of the final hearing.
Only one Japanese still makes a mockery in a dismissive tone: How much money do you really want?
Grandma Luo was not weak either, and struck back at him loudly.
At the end of the film, Grandma also meets her brother, whom she has not seen for many years, and has a simple conversation with her brother in English.
Grandma Luo has a straight personality and is also a very persistent old man, she never uses time and age as a shackle to bind herself.
So even if she is old, she can still "do heroic deeds" and relearn a language.
But the positive and sunny Grandma Luo also has her own secrets and sorrows, and she has an unfortunate past when she looks cheerful and lively, but Grandma Luo is brave, firm and kind, she faces life directly, and life is not hidden from her.
The film uses a lively and funny atmosphere to lightly tell the painful years and events, and also shows the life attitude of Luo Yufan, who is also the protagonist who witnessed the event.
The story is based on real events, may "Grandma Luo" continue to be happy, cheerful and enthusiastic!
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