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Poetry(2010)

Movie2h 19mKoreanDrama

7.9

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94%

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Director: Lee Chang-dong

Writer: Lee Chang-dong

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Overview

A woman in her sixties signs up for a poetry class, hoping to find beauty in everyday life while her memory begins to slip. At the same time, she’s pulled into a painful moral crisis when a serious wrongdoing connected to her family forces her to confront responsibility, empathy, and what it means to truly witness.

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Pros: deeply moving character study; thoughtful social themes; quiet, lyrical tone | Cons: slow pace; long runtime; heavy subject matter

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You may like this if you want a meditative, emotionally heavy drama about everyday beauty colliding with moral responsibility, in the vein of Secret Sunshine; Not for you if you need fast pacing, clear answers, or lighter themes.

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salvdelg

An incredible story of pain, empathy and life journey. The grandma absorbs all the '"punches'" from her apathetic grandson, from the deprecable moral of the people around her and from the disease, and, ultimately, uses them to reborn.

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