A Moment to Remember
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| A Moment to Remember | |
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 A Moment to Remember promotional movie poster |
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| Directed by | John H. Lee |
| Produced by | Cha Seoung-jae |
| Written by | Lee Jae-Han Kim Yeong-ha |
| Starring | Jung Woo-sung Son Ye-jin Baek Jong-hak |
| Music by | Kim Tae-won |
| Cinematography | Lee Jun-gyu |
| Editing by | Steve M. Choe Ham Sung-won |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | November 5, 2004 (South Korea) |
| Running time | 144 min. (director's cut) |
| Language | Korean |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 내 머리 속의 지우개 |
| Revised Romanization | Nae Meorisogui Jiugae |
| McCune-Reischauer | Nae Mǒrisogǔi Chiugae |
A Moment to Remember is a 2004 South Korean movie based on a 2001 Japanese television drama Pure Soul broadcasted by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. The movie was officially released on November 5, 2004 in South Korea.
[edit] Synopsis
Divided into four segments, A Moment to Remember follows the theme of discovery in a relationship and the burdens of loss caused by Alzheimer's disease.
The first segment of the film, staged in romantic comedy style, introduces the protagonists, a woman named Su Jin and a man named Chul Soo. The movie highlights their accidental meeting in a convenience store and confusion over a can of soda, followed by their subsequent courting despite the social standings that should have kept them apart.
The second segment follows the couple now settling into married life. Su-Jin learns to be a housewife as her husband cares for her. But as the segment progresses, Su-jin begins to display forgetfulness, including an incident in which a fire breaks out because of a forgotten stove. While Chul Soo caught the fire in time, the seriousness of the incident and others draw them to seek medical help.
The third segment involves the revelation of Alzheimer's disease and the couple's consequent response to it. Su Jin is heavily burdened by the knowledge that she will forget her husband and hides it from him at first until he seeks advice from the doctor himself. Despite the disease, they make the commitment to stay together and as the disease progresses, the trials the couple go through increase because of Su Jin's forgetfulness.
The fourth segment reveals Su-jin in the final stages of the disease and the grief Chul Soo experiences because of it. Yet he remains beside her, despite her lost memory, hiding his eyes behind sunglasses when he visits her so she can't see his tears.
The end of the movie finishes off with Chul Soo replaying the first time they met in the convenience store with all her friends and family in the store. Chul Soo takes her back to the retirement home as they are driving off he finally tells her he loves her.
[edit] See also
- Contemporary culture of South Korea
- List of Korea-related topics
- List of Korean language films
- The 2005 hollywood movie The Notebook, another very good reprisal of a love story afflicted by the onset of aging memory.
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