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SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) – The movie "Cassiopeia" depicts the story of Su-jin, a successful lawyer and ambitious mother in her 30s, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Su-jin, who wakes up at 5 a.m. to open her laptop to start working and prepares her daughter for studying abroad by forcing her to go to an academy to study English, is always on edge. Even on hard days, she holds back her tears and cries soundlessly only when it rains while not relying on anybody.
Su-jin, who has been forgetting things at some point, begins to collapse after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. It is the father In-woo(played by Ahn Sung-ki) who is standing by Su-jin, who forgets the company meeting, the house password, the street she always drives, and even the face of her beloved daughter.
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He tells Su-jin, who used to cry “Is the one without memory a person? It’s a zombie,” what it is to be alive and how to live by waking up at a fixed time every day, eating, going grocery shopping, taking a walk, and brushing her teeth. It is much like Cassiopeia, which is shining brightly next to the star Polaris that is telling the lost where to go.
The film asks questions about the families with dementia patients through the images of Su-jin and In-woo and further throws questions in terms of what family is.
Ahn Sung-ki once again showed off his presence as a “Nation’s top actor” by calmly expressing the sorrows of a father, who had to watch her daughter trying to make an extreme choice of suicide.
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The transformation of actress Seo Hyun-jin, who is often dubbed “Rom-com queen,” also stands out. She portrays a wide range of emotions, ranging from the character with a bad temper to a dementia patient who has lost her judgment.
Director Shin Yeon-shick, who reunited with Ahn Sung-ki in 13 years since the movie "The Fair Love"(2009), explained at a meeting following the press conference held on May 17 that he planned the film to recreate the relationship between Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway from the movie “The Intern.”
Director Shin said, “I thought the family relationship is not directly giving directions like Polaris, but rather like Cassiopeia, which allows the person to see the path that I’m walking through and helps the one not to get lost.
To be released on June 1. 12 rated movie.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Kim Sun Min.)
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