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Canada, Vancouver
A Messed-up Family & A Sister As Your Saviour
I love J-drama: best at showing how family should be, but to know how a messed-up family looks like, we need a work like the Korean movie, "House of Hummingbird" (2019) to shine and enlighten us!
Eun Hee's family might seem fine: hard-working parents, caring for their kids' future; but looking more closely and you see a messed-up family: The foundation-father-mother relationship-is deeply damaged, hence other problems like emotional neglect, even physical abuse (of the older brother toward Eun He) come; A Cold Family, Indeed!
Expectedly, for Eun Hee, finding warmness outside is the main issue, but unlike many kids in her situation, she is not hopeless & desperate, entering abusive and all kinds of addictive relationships. On the contrary, there is something beautiful, something powerful in her which attract people. But from where she got this? The answer should come from her older sister, Soo Hee: Despite the fact that she has her own problems and can't support Eun Hee as one wishes, there is something warm flowing between them. In truth, 'Family' only begins with Soo Hee and the love she's has shown to her younger sister, so now we see a strong sisterly bond. And it's not just this: The sister with her nice boyfriend provides a good healthy relationship model for Eun Hee, showing her what exactly she should look for. In fact, this three make a beautiful trio, promising us that the sisters are going to break the cycle of neglect and abuse.
The rest is Eun Hee's constant attempts to find warmness outside her home: with her good buddy, with her not great-not terrible boyfriend, with the girl who expresses her love for Eun Hee, and surely, with her Chinese teacher who acts as a mother-friend, giving us something full of delight to watch.
Sometimes Eun Hee fails, sometimes she succeeds, but in all these, you can see that she is taking strong steps toward a bright future full of love and dreams. It's impossible to not be an optimist!
I just want to finish with repeating my big admiration for the unsung hero, the sister: Soo Hee. In a scene, she said, "I'm not good at anything". I wish I'd been there telling her: "Don't say this again, it's the opposite, everything good starts with you, you're the best."
Eun Hee's family might seem fine: hard-working parents, caring for their kids' future; but looking more closely and you see a messed-up family: The foundation-father-mother relationship-is deeply damaged, hence other problems like emotional neglect, even physical abuse (of the older brother toward Eun He) come; A Cold Family, Indeed!
Expectedly, for Eun Hee, finding warmness outside is the main issue, but unlike many kids in her situation, she is not hopeless & desperate, entering abusive and all kinds of addictive relationships. On the contrary, there is something beautiful, something powerful in her which attract people. But from where she got this? The answer should come from her older sister, Soo Hee: Despite the fact that she has her own problems and can't support Eun Hee as one wishes, there is something warm flowing between them. In truth, 'Family' only begins with Soo Hee and the love she's has shown to her younger sister, so now we see a strong sisterly bond. And it's not just this: The sister with her nice boyfriend provides a good healthy relationship model for Eun Hee, showing her what exactly she should look for. In fact, this three make a beautiful trio, promising us that the sisters are going to break the cycle of neglect and abuse.
The rest is Eun Hee's constant attempts to find warmness outside her home: with her good buddy, with her not great-not terrible boyfriend, with the girl who expresses her love for Eun Hee, and surely, with her Chinese teacher who acts as a mother-friend, giving us something full of delight to watch.
Sometimes Eun Hee fails, sometimes she succeeds, but in all these, you can see that she is taking strong steps toward a bright future full of love and dreams. It's impossible to not be an optimist!
I just want to finish with repeating my big admiration for the unsung hero, the sister: Soo Hee. In a scene, she said, "I'm not good at anything". I wish I'd been there telling her: "Don't say this again, it's the opposite, everything good starts with you, you're the best."
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