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[Anonymous]

'The Way Home' Review
I just saw this movie at the Korean Cultural Center on Saturday. That was interesting to me since I didn?t know about the center until going to the movie.
I?m giving this movie a rating of 2 thumbs up. I found both the subject and the cinematography great.
It deals with the culture class of a poor woman, the grandmother, living in a very remote village and her grandson from Seoul. The movie shows the humanity of the village life. You don't feel sorry, as so many movies do for the people in the village.
I went to the movie with a friend whose family if from a small village in Mexico. She could totally relate to the movie. She hated the kid at first because of the lack of respect he showed. Then she was mad at the mother for not teaching the kid better.
I think this would be a good movie to show in the classroom because some of the kids definitely could relate their own lives to the lives on the film. I think it would thus show the similarities between the lives of the families of the different nationalities in my classes.
Also on a side note, my friend and I were discussing after the movie, that you didn?t really need the English subtitles to understand the movie. The fact that the grandmother was mute let this happen.
The view of the Korean countryside was great. The times when there was no music so you could hear the countryside was spectacular.
Melody