Soshite Chichi ni Naru (2013)

Tenderly elaborated film about an unimaginable family drama, actually dramas.

Several sensitive aspects of the tragedy are neatly and emotionally conveyed to the viewer.

A minor drawback is perhaps that from a certain moment you get the impression that the film is mainly going to focus on the father-son relationship, while previously the suffering was equally present for everyone. Nevertheless, an endearing film.

Translated from Dutch · View original

Very nice Korean. The content of the film is very fascinating, which also makes you ask yourself the question: what if this happens to me? Sometimes it seems to me that the only correct solution is that as a hospital you simply do not report this at all under the guise of: what does not know does not hurt. Because every other choice is never a perfect one with always very big disadvantages. The film was made around it.

All that again told in a nice calm pace that just relaxes you for a while. Sometimes the film is also strange because of the very subdued emotions. How one reacts to certain facts seems to me somehow as idiotic as with all the melodramatics and violin music in a Hollywood movie.

Visually beautiful too. Tightly filmed without emphasizing anything, but it fits very well. And images of cities in the dark and nicely lit rooms quickly do well.

At times the film is a bit too scripted and there are some scenes in it that were not necessary. But that doesn't really disturb. 4.0*.

Translated from Dutch · View original

A film about two children who were switched at birth and therefore set a lot of issues in motion. About parenting, about upbringing and the difference between upbringing and blood relationship. It is never black and white and is expressed step by step. A beautiful film that never becomes very big, but manages to touch. The great thing about the film is that it also does not have a ready-made answer and shows figures who are quite different from each other, but at the same time each have the best intentions in their own way.

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