Riceboy Sleeps

Watched this on my plane ride home from Doha… such a great movie!!! I loved everything about it, so emotional from beginning to end!

Beautiful Korean slice of life drama about an immigrant mother and son. This is peak mother son dynamics and so emotional from start to finish. It left me in an emotional state and I felt like calling my parents afterwards. The characters are so relatable with two great central performances. It tackes more themes than I thought it would especially in the second half. I also learned a lot about Korean culture watching this, it's so beautiful, but also heartbreaking when you witness that culture being squandered in order to fit in. It seems to me that they purposely set this in the 90's to include the themes or immigration to that extent. It's definitely a theme that's still relevant today but setting it in the past gives off the impression that it's outdated. The pine needle story was perfect. Beautiful cinematography, love the aspect ratio and some long takes. They ended the movie at the perfect time.