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Plot:
Na-young (Jeon Do-yeon) is a pretty but demure travel agent, living with her parents. Her mother Yeon-soon, played by the veteran actress Ko Doo-sim (Saving My Hubby), is a former haenyeo (female divers who make a living by catching shellfish) and now a back-scrubber in a public bath. She is a barely literate, tough-as-nails fiftysomething who spits everywhere and cusses like a macho gangster in an Oliver Stone movie. (The film opens with a cleverly staged sequence in which Yeon-soon is seemingly grieving over someone's death during a funeral service, only to be revealed as accusing the dead man of "dying irresponsibly" after having borrowed her husband's money) Na-young is desperately embarrassed by her mother's shameless, money-grubbing behavior and equally disillusioned by her father's refusal to fully engage with his life. When her father, sentenced to a terminal disease, disappears, Na-young traces him back to Yeon-soon's hometown, a remote island in Southwest (Even though the haenyeo is usually associated with Cheju Island, director Park made the characters converse in Cholla Province dialect. The authentic Cheju Island dialect would have been nearly incomprehensible to most Koreans). There, she is caught in a time slip, a la Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and befriends her own mother as a young diver, courted by the younger version of her father, a postal worker.
Directed by: Park Heung-sik (I Wish I Had a Wife, Bravo My Life, The Railroad)
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Other Films/TV on Avistaz
Jeon Do-yeon:
Secret Sunshine, You are My Sunshine, The Harmonium in My Memory, Untold Scandal, Happy End
Park Hae-il:
Rules of Dating, A Boy Goes to Heaven, The Host, Paradise Murdered
