Hope (2013 film)
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Sowon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sowŏn |
| Directed by | Lee Joon-ik |
| Produced by | Byun Bong-hyun Seong Chang-yeon Kim Yong-dae |
| Written by | Jo Joong-hoon Kim Ji-hye |
| Starring |
Sol Kyung-gu Uhm Ji-won Lee Re |
| Music by | Bang Jun-seok |
| Cinematography | Kim Tae-gyeong |
| Edited by |
Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum |
| Distributed by | Lotte Entertainment |
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122 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | ₩18,529,474,100 |
Hope (Hangul: 소원; RR: Sowon), also known as Wish, is a 2013 South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik, starring Sol Kyung-gu, Uhm Ji-won and Lee Re. It won Best Film at the 34th Blue Dragon Film Awards.
The film is based on a true story, the infamous Nayoung Case in 2008, in which an 8-year-old girl called "Na-young" in the Korean press, was raped and beaten by a drunk 57-year-old man in a public toilet. The court sentenced the man to only 12 years in prison, which caused outrage in the country due to the terrible brutality of the crime and the man's history of physical and sexual violence.
This movie has been re made in Tamil as Nishabdam.
On her way to school, a young girl named So-won (which literally means "wish" or "hope" in Korean) gets sexually assaulted by a drunk older male stranger. As a result, she suffers multiple internal injuries and has to undergo a major surgery, but her emotional wounds are equally difficult to heal. Their happy family shattered, her parents Dong-hoon and Mi-hee go through feelings of pain and rage. From the trauma of that day, So-won refuses to see or talk to her father, so Dong-hoon hides beneath the costume of his daughter's favorite cartoon sausage character Kokomong and becomes her soft toy. Thanks to the love of those around her, So-won's condition gradually improves. Her father dressed in the Kokomong costume, re-connects with his daughter finding hope in the midst of his sorrow and despair.
Director Lee Joon-ik had retired briefly from the local film industry following the lackluster commercial performance of his previous effort Battlefield Heroes (2011). He returned two years later with Hope, casting top actor Sol Kyung-gu in one of the lead roles. Lee said he wanted to "make a happy movie that begins with a tragedy. With this heartbreaking material, I wanted to make the film as happy as possible. I am going to present a human drama where hope blooms at the edge of unhappiness and desperation, after a series of ordeals and hardships." He maintained that he made the film to "encourage Na-young and other victims of sex crimes," and that instead of other films with a similar subject matter that focus on sensationalist aspects, like the crime itself, Hope is about "what happens after, and is more about showing how life is good and worth living, emphasizing how the community rallied around the victim."
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