Bring Me Home
| Movie | |
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| German title | Bring Me Home |
| Original title | Nareul Chajajwo ( 나를 찾아 줘 ) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kim Seung-woo |
| script | Kim Seung-woo |
| production | Park Se-joon |
| music | Lee Ji-su |
| camera | Lee Mo-gae |
| cut | Kim Chang-ju |
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Bring Me Home (Original title: Nareul Chajajwo ) is a 2019 thriller by the South Korean director Kim Seung-woo . The film is about child abduction. It is the first film with Lee Yeong-ae in 14 years. The film celebrated its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 and its German premiere at the Fantasy Filmfest 2020 .
action
Jeong-yeon and her husband Myeong-guk lost their son Yun-su six years ago and have been looking for him ever since. While Jeong-yeon is working at the hospital, Myeong-guk searches the whole country to find Yun-su. One day he received a message that he had shown up. But while driving to the bakery where Yun-su is supposed to be, he collides with a truck and dies. It turns out that the message is just a prank by a student. The death makes the headlines and with it the pictures of Yun-su. A police officer on the nearby island of Naebu finds that one of the local boys looks very similar to the picture. Commissioner Hong doesn't feel that way, but they are looking into it. Even on closer inspection, Hong doesn't believe that little Min-su is really Yun-su. The boy doesn't say anything. But the policeman is convinced and calls the number below the request. But instead of Jeong-yeon, her brother-in-law answers. Jeong-yeon just went to the bathroom. The brother-in-law wanted to ask Jeong-yeon for money, which she received through the death of her husband, his brother. But now another possibility opens up.
He lets someone else call for him and says he'll tell her where her son is for $ 50,000. He can describe this very precisely. Yun-su is said to be known as Min-su on the island. Jeong-yeon immediately goes to Naebu. The people there are suspicious of her. Hong immediately hides the boy. The islanders let the young children work for them and Commissioner Hong is involved. Jeong-yeon questions all residents, but nobody claims to have seen him. During the night Jeong-yeon sneaks into an apartment and finds a locked children's room. But there is another boy in there. She looks for another apartment and finds an expression of her request. This is not from her. So the residents must know about the whole thing. But then Hong comes and confronts her. She should leave the island. Jeong-yeon pretends to do this.
But it still remains. The boys who are locked away, tied up and raped can escape at night. When the villagers notice this, they go on a search. At that moment Jeong-yeon comes too. She sees police officer Hong Min-su handcuffing them. The boy can break free and runs towards the sea. Everyone runs after him, including Jeong-yeon. But he is walking directly towards the surf and no one except Jeong-yeon, who is being held by the villagers, wants to approach him. It is too dangerous. Jeong-yeon calls for him. When he replies with “mother”, a wave hits him.
Jeong-yeon is now Hong's prisoner. But she can outsmart one of Hong's people and break free. She breaks into Hong and attacks him. She is able to free the boy Ji-ho and flees with him out to sea to a boat, where she succeeds in killing Hong. The next morning she wants to kill herself. But suddenly she sees Min-su's corpse and runs to her and cries. But she notices, seeing him up close for the first time, that Min-su is actually not Yun-su. She continues to mourn Min-su and what happened to him.
In the end, Jeong-yeon lives with Ji-ho and teases him. She is still looking for Yun-su. She is on her way to a children's home where a carer has a child that looks like Yun-su. The film ends when the boy turns to Jeong-yeon.
reception
Bring Me Home was released in South Korean cinemas on November 27, 2019 and reached 645,082 admissions. Deborah Young from the Hollywood Reporter rates the film as positive with small weaknesses. The strongest aspect of Bring Me Home is Lee Yeong-ae in the lead role as a relentlessly determined mother in search of her son.
Web links
- Bring Me Home in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Bring Me Home in the Korean Movie Database (English)
- Bring Me Home to HanCinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bring Me Home (2019). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC , accessed on June 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Deborah Young: 'Bring Me Home' ('Na-reul cha-ja-jwo'): Film Review - TIFF 2019. In: The Hollywood Reporter . September 16, 2019, accessed June 11, 2020 .