Hope

8.2
2013 2 hr 2 min Drama

After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.

  • Cast:
    Sol Kyung-gu , Uhm Ji-won , Lee Re , Kim Sang-ho , Kim Hae-sook , Ra Mi-ran , Kwon Tae-won

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Reviews

BoardChiri
2013/10/02

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

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ThedevilChoose
2013/10/03

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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TrueHello
2013/10/04

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Nayan Gough
2013/10/05

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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kosmasp
2013/10/06

This is pretty heavy stuff, the movie does not hold back any punches when it comes to emotional weight. It is a drama of high quality. It feels as real as it can get, without losing its touch with the viewer. I watched another drama recently, where a character had to cope with a heavy blow to his ordinary life.But it didn't handle the story as well as this movie does. The viewer stays connected and is along for the ride. It's not easy, but the movie walks the line and knows how to keep the viewer attached and bewildered at the same time. No small fee if you ask me and really a heavy burden that we carry with the characters ... But even with the long running time the quality never lets you down ...

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hawalee
2013/10/07

The movie 'Wish' follows a young girl who is sexually assaulted by a man, and the repercussions of this traumatizing experience on her and her family. It delves into her recovery from the experience and gives an insightful look into the emotions felt by herself, and those around her. I cannot even begin to describe my love for this film. Upon literally watching it 5 minutes ago, I believe it may be one of my most favorite movies of all time. I am not ashamed to admit I sobbed throughout literally an hour and thirty minutes of the film (basically 3/4 of the entire movie.) This movie was honestly so touching, emotional, heartbreaking, absolutely soul crushing to watch. And the fact that it is based on true story, is even more raw and honest-feeling. I believe that some of the most stand out scenes were: 1) The scene in which the father had tried to help clean his daughters burst colostomy bag and her reaction to this. Not only was it heart breaking to watch her freeze in fear, but the fathers reaction to her doing this and the pain and sadness he would've felt. 2) The scene in which the daughter removes the head of the Kokomong suit her father had been wearing around her just so he could be near her without scaring her off, and the emotions shown on the actors face conveyed so much of everything, it was an extremely touching moment.3) The scene in which the father and mother react to the sentence which was given to the rapist and as the father is about to (I want to say kill, because the look in his eyes was absolutely full of rage) beat the rapist and the daughter rushes into the court room and grabs onto her fathers leg pleading him to just go home. Of course there were many more amazing scenes, but those were a few that really stood out to me. All I can say about this movie is that, it was an eye opening and heart breaking film to watch and that EVERYONE should definitely see it.

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Ismail Alkhateeb
2013/10/08

This movie is just amazing. This is the first Korean movie I watch, and it touched my soul............ I would watch 100 times more The story is well-built the performance of Hope's and her mom and dad are way better than any actors/actresses I just can't thank Joon-ik Lee enough Everything in the acting seems to be so perfect

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markrschulz
2013/10/09

This movie is shocking on many levels. There is not too much to it that has not been revealed in the rather brief synopsis above. A little girl is brutally raped and almost dies, the movie is a character study of the impact that this heinous event has on her family, friends and community at large.While some scenes are touching, the way the movie portrays the malevolence of the criminal, along with the ineptitude of the Korean criminal justice system left many in the audience either weeping or gasping as each line delivered in these scenes is like a punch to the stomach.In a manner that truly befits an episode of 'Dexter', the monster escapes unpunished along with the promise to the girl's father that he will create the same situation for another family as soon as he can.In the end we are left with a shattered community trying to pick up the pieces, and having limited success. One can only assume that the titular 'wish' is that things will get better after the credits roll...

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