The Way Home (2002 film)

The Way Home Hangul RRJibeuro is a 2002 film written and directed by Lee Jeonghyang. It tells the heartwarming story about a grandmother and her cityborn grandson who comes to live with her in a rural village. The film, which reminds the younger generation of the unconditional love and care that old people selflessly give, won South Koreas equivalent of the Oscars for best picture and screenplay.

The story begins on a fine summers morning, when Sangwoo Yoo Seungho and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the sevenyearold urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 75yearold mute, but not deaf, grandmother Kim Eulboon while she looks for a new job after a business venture failed in Seoul. Eventually they reach their destination, a dusty bus stop in the Korean countryside near an unsophisticated village.By now Sangwoo, who has arrived with junk food and toys, has no intention of respecting his mute grandmother especially as her house is primitive with no running water. His mother apologizes for leaving the boy, telling her own mother it will not be for too long before leaving on the next bus. Alone Sangwoo ignores his grandmother, not even wanting to look at her and even calling her a byungshin, or retard. Next morning, his grandmother starts another day. She goes down the hill to get clean water and washes her clothes at the river. She also tends the melons that she will sell at the market. ........

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