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.*
