Life Is Beautiful - 2022 - 5/10
AKA - Insaeng-eun Areumdaweo // 인생은 아름다워
You wouldn’t guess it, but Se Yeon has cancer. A month, two months, tops.
She makes a checklist of things she wants to do before dying.
Her family, meanwhile, still treats her as a doormat.
The husband is a rude, insensitive boor, the children indifferent. One wishes Mom were gone.
Years before, she made the wrong choice and lost her first love. Her schoolgirl crush.
Is he still somewhere? Could she find him?
While her family continues to treat her like dog scrapings, Se Yeon pushes optimistically ahead.
Comedy / musical (!) makes for an uncomfortable watch, in may ways, morbid.
Vintage K-pop songs + lavish dance numbers = sheer schmaltz. The finale, tasteless.
Being kind, this got lost in translation … or is simply too Korean for me.
