Broker (2022)

Esta es una película que tenía muchas ganas de ver y por fin pude verla hace poquito, por lo que la tengo fresquita.
Por lo general, en relación con las películas coreanas me suelen gustar aquellas que, como estas, relatan historias reales o cuentan una historia inventada pero con la base de una historia real. En este caso, el hecho real son los baby box o cajas de bebés que tienen muchas iglesias en Corea del Sur. La trama me ha parecido interesante, sin embargo, al principio me resultó un poco difícil meterme en la historia, pero pasados unos minutos fui entendiendo poco a poco.
Los personajes fueron los culpables de que esta película no la haya calificado con 10 estrellas ya que me resultó un poco incómodo (quizás por lo bien definidos que están). En la película, los personajes principales están cometiendo un delito, por lo que el espectador debería estar en contra de lo que están haciendo. Sin embargo, la profundidad que tienen los personajes hace que los puedas llegar a entender y “justificarlos” (aunque no existe justificación para lo que están haciendo).
Creo que la película tiene un buen ritmo y, a pesar de la complejidad de la historia y de los personajes, el tiempo se pasa rápido una vez que te metes en la historia. En relación con el final de la película, lo entendí y era el final obvio, pero si me dejó un deseo de que la historia hubiera terminado un poco diferente. Aun así es una película que recomiendo mucho para conocer partes de la cultura coreana que no es tan visible pero que existe como, por ejemplo, el abandono de bebés, el estigma de ser madre soltera o la necesidad de dinero.

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Painting A Painful yet Beautiful Gestures and Emotions into One Huge Canvas.

Visually this movie is really artistic, aside from the aesthetics and beautiful cinematography, the performances of the actors come out like a combined art in the movie, it's like they're painting a painful yet beautiful gestures and emotions into one huge canvas.

Performance wise, the actors successfully conveying the messages of the story with their whole body, eyes, slight hands or shoulders movements, even the way they breathe can tell us the solid messages and emotions. Salute to all actors, no exceptions, even the child actors and the cameos, they show great acting quality, especially Song Kang Ho, Lee Ji Eun aka IU and Bae Doona.

We don't need to question any more about the acting quality Song Kang Ho has, there were one scene he walked while holding a doll after seeing his daughter, and he made me want to cry just by looking at his back. He is great and his all performances as Sanghyun, lead this movie so well.

I'm still shocked with IU, I actually didn't expect her to be this excellent for her movie debut. Her quality is multiple times better than her previous project, from facial expression, tones, gestures are all leveled up. Here she knows how to brings out enough portion of the emotions she has to show in every scene, and that looks visually poetic. There were not many scene where we can see Soyoung having a long physical contact with her own baby, Woosung, but once it happen -although it might look awkward, which is realistic, since Soyoung herself is an unprepared young mother- you can feel the hidden affections and the maternal instinct she has toward her baby, as a mother myself, i can clearly see it, maybe the other moms who watch this movie will feel the way i do.

The chemistry she has with Dong Soo is like a sweet bonus we get from the movie, proving that even without a physical contact you can still feel the butterflies by only seeing the image of Soyoung and Dongsoo in one frame. People keep mentioning the Ferris Wheel scene, yes it's so touching and heart breaking and i cried, but you'll actually see more of it throughout the movie.

Bae Doona as Soojin is not shown really often in the movie, but there were one scene where she has a conversation on the phone with someone, we don't really know who or what that other person says to her but her whole expression and tone in that scene is like telling a huge pain she has been dealing, whatever it is.

Story wise, it is kinda slowburn, up until half of the story. Surely it's not the type of movie that would make you cry a river, leave us in lots of angst nor laugh the hell out. It stays in the middle but if we see it in a positive way, actually with that we can slowly understand their wound and clearly see the emotion transitions in each character, also how they develop, personally it helps me to catch the feeling throughout the movie.

There were no long or difficult to understand narrations and dialogues, but almost every dialogues come with huge impact and weight.

Like everyone else's favorite, the "Thank you for being born" that said with IU's voice it's so precious, and i cried when the kiddo Hyejin say it to her in return.

In the end of the story, all of the characters here trying to find the best way to protect baby Woosung, it's heartbreaking and beautiful in the same time.

With this movie, Koreeda is trying to tell us not every woman who gave birth to a baby has an ability to be a mother, but every children that born deserves to receive protection and love from the adults around them. And that an action most people consider as irresponsible might be the best way to protect someone.

I watched this with my husband and our baby boy, my hubby cried a little at Soyoung and Soojin conversation inside the car. And on the way home he thanked me for giving birth and spending most of my time taking care of our son.

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