The only reason why the Devil can win because of the negligence of the good guys
(Nam Hee-Joo)
Director: Mo Hong-Jin
Screenwriter: Mo Hong-Jin
Cast: Shim Eun-Kyung, Yoon Je-Moon, Kim Sung-Oh
Runtime: 108 minutes
Origin: South Korea
Synopsis: After 15 years, a young Nam Hee-Joo have to deal with the killer of her father
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I watched the movie after saw Shim
Eun-Kyung’s performance in Miss Granny and
it’s quite intriguing to see her in suspense-thriller movie. Yes, despite of
the title which suited for a romance movie, this one categorizes as a thriller one.
Thus, I spent no time in finding information about the movie and decided to
watch it in the near moment. Well, I find it quite shocking because the movie
is released in the early moment of 2016. This movie is definitely out of my
radar! Whereas, I’ll always try to spend some time for finding some Korean
thriller movies (you see, I favor Korean thriller movies). Plus, the cast of
the movie is quite good, with Shim Eun Kyung as the lead actress; I’m expecting
the movie will be a good one.
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The first scene of the movie is taken
place in a court. A perpetrator named Kim Gi-Beom (Kim Sung-Oh) had his 15-year-imprisonment
sentence as the result of his wrongdoing. Yet, the sentence was not the one
that the families of the victims want and all of them were complaining about
how unfair the result was. In the midst of the rage of the families’ victims,
there was a -young little girl named Nam Hee-Joo (Han Seo-Jin) who saw the
scene before her eyes in silence. She couldn’t say anything and didn’t know
what to do, except to flee from the court room. Later, it was explained that
Nam Hee-Joo was the family of the victim as her dad was killed by the offender.
Because of the murder, she began to live in solitary with the support of her
dad’s subordinates whom were policemen. She started to work in police office as
a janitor while the policemen gave her a great care, including Detective
Dae-Young (Yoon Je-Moon) and Section Chief Ban (Kim Won-Hae) who knew Hee-Joo’s
father a lot and wanted to give Kim Gi-Beom a great punishment. Eventually, Kim
Gi-Beom was out from the prison and ready to come back to the society. Yet, the
moment he came out from the society, there were some people murdered, rather in
the similar method as 15 years ago. The strange thing was the policemen already
had their eyes to Kim Gi-Beom right after he came out from the prison and they didn’t
find any proof if he was the one who committed the crime in this moment. Then,
who was the real murderer? And how Nam Hee-Joo (Shim Eun-Kyung) dealt with her
life when she knew Kim Gi-Beom was out from the prison?
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As usual, Korean thriller movie usually
begins with a tragedy. This movie has the similar opening as many other movies
with the story of the lead character that loses her father due to unfortunate
circumstance. This fact leads to the complicated life of the lead character as
well-depicted by Shim Eun-Kyung. She lived alone, quite absorbed by Nietzsche’s
thought about the good and the bad guy, and secretly investigated about the
murder that Kim Gi-Beom did 15 years ago. Oddly, the movie is reminded me of I Saw the Devil which the lead character
had an intention to do revenge by himself. Yet, I also find it different
because Missing You is rather
melancholic than I Saw the Devil because
the movie is described from different perspective, it’s a movie of a young girl
who’d lost her father. The bittersweet life which is led by Nam Hee-Joo
sometimes seemed childish in its own way. On the other side, I can say that the
movie is like Monster without any
comical expression. It’s definitely darker and gloomier than Monster! Personally, I’m gonna say that
the movie might be unoriginal in theme but, the plot is quite good. It’s
confusing for the first glance (yes, I find some things that are better
explained; but, they aren’t) but, the moment it progressed, it becomes an
interesting development. Thumbs up to the final scene of Nam Hee-Joo and Kim Gi-Beom
because it is…impressive and it definitely captures the sadness of a little
girl who’d missed her parents. Last words, Missing
You is a movie that you don’t want to be missed.
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