2013 · drama · family
Hope
Directed by Lee Joon-ik2h 2m2013
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
Our read: Hope (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · family entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- sombre
- intense
- tender
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How Hope feels to watch.
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“You want a tender Korean healing story after unthinkable violence against a child.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if child assault themes will devastate you tonight, however gently told.
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