My friend Daniel has been asking me to watch this movie for the longest time. As far as I can gather, it’s about a boy who is a complete jerk to his poor self-sacrificing grandmother who goes through great lengths to make him happy. Because of that, I can’t watch this. I don’t want to go around choking little kids after watching such a horrific movie, so I won’t. I hear it’s good though. Very good in fact. Won awards and that. But sad. I don’t do sad. It makes me depressed and I have to sit around all day taking pills and staring into those bright lamps that depressed people have. You know, the ones that cost a lot of money and don’t really do anything, don’t even give you a mild tan. Those ones.
Luckily, the movie ends all happy like. I guess the DVD cover does kind of give it away. The kid is kind of cute as well. Another reason why I can’t watch it. The last thing you want to do is hate a cute kid. At least with ugly ones you can’t really help it.
ANYHOO, this movie stars Kim Eul-boon as the Grandmother and Yu Seung-ho as Sang-woo, the wee kid. The kid is your regular child actor, but the grandmother is something else! In real life, she is actually a non-actress who has never even watched a movie in her entire life. Pretty crazy eh? She was handpicked by the director after they reached the little rural village they were shooting in and saw her walking past them by chance. The director thought she was perfect, and when the movie was released she had to move out of her house in the tiny village (where they shot the movie) she spent her entire life in so she could escape from all the adoring fans that tracked her down. Her granddaughter said she really didn’t care for all that attention. I hope she at least made some good money out of it though!!
So, I guess I will watch it, eventually. Coz that’s kinda cool. THE END!! -by Hobbes-