Genre: Drama
Language: Korean
Director: Dong Hyeuk Hwang
Based on the novel by: Kong Ji-Young
Cast: Yoo Gong, Yu-mi Jeong, In-seo Jeong, Seung-hwan Baek and Hyeon-soo Kim
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Storyline:
Kang In-Ho (Gong Yoo) is a newly appointed teacher at a school for the hearing-impaired in Mujin city. On the way to his new job he becomes involved in a minor car accident and takes his car to a local car repair shop. There his already wrecked car is bumped by a woman named Yoo-Jin (Jung Yu-Mi). Yoo-Jin is an employee at the Mujin Human Rights Center.
On the first day at his new school, In-Ho meets the school's principal and director of administration. They are an identical twins. The director of administration asks for a bribe of 50 million WON ($50,000 USD) to work at their school. In-Ho's financial situation is already in dire circumstances. His daughter who is staying with his mother suffers from asthma. In-Ho's wife has passed away. In-Ho makes a phone call to his mother asking for the money. She delivers the 50 million WON by taking out the deposit money for their home.
While teaching the hearing-impaired students, In-Ho feels something strange about the kid's distant appearances. On his way home, In-Ho notices one of his students Yoo-Ri sitting on the ledge of her dorm room window, which is several stories above ground. He rushes into the dorm building and makes it into Yoo-Ri's room to pull her away from the window. Yoo-Ri then leads In-Ho to a door down the hall and stops. In-Ho goes into the room and sees the superintendent of the dormitory beating a male student named Yeon-Doo. In-Ho is shocked by the brutality and eventually takes Yeon-Doo to the hospital. In-Ho also makes a phone call to Yoo-Jin, the lady from the huma rights center who bumped into him earlier, and asks her to come to the hospital. Soon, In-Ho and Yoo-Jin uncover unfathomable actions committed by the school's faculty against the students. Their work to break the children's silence is only beginning. Meanwhile, In-Ho feels his own pressures to stay silent as his new job already cost his family their home's deposit money and medical bills are piling up for his daughter.
Review:
A film from korea which is based on a true story and adapted from the novel by Ji-Young Kong featuring the story of deaf students who are treated harshly and improperly by the teachers and headmaster from the their school.
The plot was nice and easy to understand. But this is not a movie for children. Because many of the scenes are not good for viewing by children. Acting of the players I personally think were good and very animating, especially for the three kids who acted as the deaf pupil who deserves two thumbs up.
No wonder the story is so touching and so deep will make the audience go moved into it and will make us shed tears.
Messages that can be taken from this movie is that every person in the world is special to God. Therefore we as humans are supposed to look inward be our advantages and disadvantages. Treat fellow human beings can not be equated with animals! This is what I strongly disagree. Treat others as we all are, respect, honor and love are the actions that will unite us all as human beings created by God.
And lastly there is one sentence that really touched me from making this film:
"But in the end, we are not taught to change the world. But we have to make the world doesn't change ourself."
Rating:
Story: 8/10
Story: 8/10
Cast: 8/10
Ending: 7/10
Overall: 8/10
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