Poetry
2010 · Movie · 139 min
★ 7.6(351)unSUB Rating
A woman in her sixties signs up for a poetry class, hoping to find beauty in everyday life while her memory begins to slip. At the same time, she’s pulled into a painful moral crisis when a serious wrongdoing connected to her family forces her to confront responsibility, empathy, and what it means to truly witness.
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Details
- Original title
- 시
- Years
- 2010
- Release date
- 2010-05-13
- Language
- Korean
- Runtime
- 139 min
- TMDB rating (input)
- 7.6/10 (351 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a meditative, emotionally heavy drama about everyday beauty colliding with moral responsibility, in the vein of Secret Sunshine; Not for you if you need fast pacing, clear answers, or lighter themes.
Pros: deeply moving character study; thoughtful social themes; quiet, lyrical tone | Cons: slow pace; long runtime; heavy subject matter
Themes
- poetry
- tv addicted person
- bridge
- alzheimer's disease
- caretaker
- teenage rape
- poetry teacher
- old woman
- badminton
- grandmother grandson relationship
Cast & crew
Yoon Jeong-hee
as Yang Mi-ja
David Lee
as Jong-wook
Kim Hee-ra
as Elder Kang
Ahn Nae-sang
as Ki-beom's Father
- KY
Kim Yong-taek
as Poet
Park Myung-shin
as Hee-jin's Mother
Jang Hye-jin
as Mr. Kang's Second Daughter-in-Law
Kim Nam-jin
as Soo-ok
Kim Jong-goo
as Park Sang-tae
Kim Hye-jung
as Jo Mi-hye
Directed by Lee Chang-dong