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| yna@yna.co.kr 2022-05-20 10:00:12
▲ This photo, provided by D Station, shows the poster of the upcoming film "Good Morning." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- Soo-mi (Kim Hwan-hee) grew up in a children’s home and faced the violence of the world from a young age. The head of her institution stole the home’s donation and a man who comes as a guest in the restaurant she works as part-time, tells her he will give her allowance if she pours him liquor. Living for Soo-mi is harder than dying.
The moment she tried to jump off the bridge, Seo-jin (Yoo Sun) comes up and tells her to try living if she dares to end her life. She even says that she will teach Soo-mi how to die. Seo-jin, a hospice nurse, takes Soo-mi to a restaurant and gives the young girl her name card after seeing the cut marks on her wrist.
Soo-mi visits the hospice where Seo-jin works. At first, she wanted to learn the way to end her life. However, her mind changes after staying with people who are alive and hardworking more than anyone else, even while facing their death. She also becomes a family with Seo-jin, who stays and eats together with her.
The film "Good Morning" is a story about Soo-mi, who lived alone with pain and loneliness, meeting Seo-jin just before taking her own life and finding the true meaning of living.
The people in hospice care will have their own stories. They live their remaining lives truly and some will maybe leave earlier than others. Through them, Soo-mi will learn how precious life is.
The movie doesn’t go beyond the viewers’ expectations. In the scene where Soo-mi goes to Seo-jin’s house for the first time, Seo-jin tells her to not enter the empty room, and this shows that she also shares a similar pain as the young girl.
Maybe because the film excessively depicts a humane movie, all the hospice people are kind and good. There is no conflict between the characters. The family depicted in the film is close to the idea of a flawless one and therefore is far from reality. Also, the story unfolds slowly and sometimes awkward lines interfere with the immersion.
The film will star Yoo Sun, who has appeared in around 20 films and is now considered a veteran actress, and Lee Soon-jae, who plays In-soo, a member of the hospice care. The interesting part of the film is watching Kim Hwan-hee’s growth, the actress who showed a great performance in the 2016 horror film “The Wailing.”
Kim, who is now as tall as Lee, naturally depicts the emotional change from despair, anger, and sadness to hope. In a press conference held on the 19th after the premiere, Kim said, “Soo-mi is a character that starts from the lowest and goes to the top, showing a wide emotional range. I thought about how the viewers could relate to her,” adding, “I like roles that can challenge me, and that is why I wanted to tell her story.”
Kim, who became an adult, filmed “Good Morning,” when she was 20 years old, last year. The actress said, “After becoming an adult, there was the pressure of acting and leading a film and I also felt lonely,” adding, “I was able to enjoy the filming because the fellow actors led me well even when I slipped a little. I think I was able to grow as the Korean saying ‘compliments make a whale dance’ (compliments have a huge effect).”
“Good Morning” will be released on May 25th.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by An Hayeon.)
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