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Saturday, October 10, 2015

KFilm to Maybe Watch: Miss Granny (2014)

Miss Granny (2014)


Oh Mal-soon is living with her grown son and his family, but her daughter-in-law has heart disease and the family blames Mal-soon for stressing her into a cardiac episode. They want to put Mal-soon into an old folks' home. Sad and lonely, Mal-soon stumbles across a portrait studio and decides to go inside. The photographer tells her he will make her look 50 years younger, and he does! What will Mal-soon's family do when they think she has gone missing? Will her grandson catch on that the girl with the beautiful voice singing in his band is actually his grandmother? Will she stay young forever, or is there a way to go back? Does Mal-soon even want to go back?

*This movie is an odd mixture of playful and somber moments. Some of the musical numbers were fun, but it would keep flashing back on Mal-soon's life and the hardships she went through raising a child on her own as a young widow. The film also touched on issues related to how society views its elders, how they are often seen as a nuisance, and how the elderly must feel being mistreated that way. Kim Soo-hyun has a cameo at the end of the film, so it does end on a happy note, but I'm not sure if that was enough to make me want to watch it again.*

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