● Plot
“The broken car… Blood on your hands… a pistol… Why am I here?” Pil-Joo Han (Sung-Min Lee), a late-stage brain tumor, Alzheimer’s patient in his 80s. During the Japanese occupation, he lost all his family to pro-Japanese forces. When his wife dies, Pil-joo tries to get revenge, which he has been planning for more than 60 years. He asks In-gyu (Nam Joo-hyuk), a 20-year-old part-timer who became his best friend at a family restaurant where he works part-time, to help him drive for just a week. In-gyu, who followed Pil-joo without knowing the reason, was exposed to CCTV at the first multiple sites and is pointed out as a strong suspect. The police narrow the investigation network and fight the disappearing memories, while Pil-ju continues to take revenge… A 60-year plan, a dangerous companion for revenge begins!
● Non-Force Screening
It is the second film written and directed by director Lee Il-hyeong, who took the second place in the box office in 2016 by mobilizing 9.7 million viewers with ‘The Prosecutor’s Gaiden’. In addition, for this work, director Yoon Jong-bin, who showed ‘War on Crime: The Golden Age of Bad Guys’ and recently ‘Suriname’, participated in the planning. In addition, Wolgwang, a film company that has presented various works such as ‘The Prosecutor’s Gaiden’, ‘The Sheriff’ and ‘Don’, participated in the production, raising expectations that it will be a great movie just with their names.
Here, Lee Seong-min from the movies ‘The Duke’ and ‘The Managers of Namsan’ and Nam Joo-hyuk, an actor representing youth in the dramas ‘Twenty-Five Twenty-One’ and ‘The Dazzling’, will appear. As a young man participating in the revenge play of an old man in his 80s, it is a movie that makes you curious regarding the chemistry that the two characters’ journeys and two-shots will show.
● After-screening
The 60-year-old revenge play of an old man who is losing his memory from Alzheimer’s comes to the audience meaningfully through several visually impressive settings. Pil-joo (Lee Seong-min), whose name was tattooed on each finger in order not to forget the object to be avenged, was actually a perfect old man from the tip of his head to the beggar in action. Just standing in front of him, In-gyu (Nam Joo-hyuk)’s youthful youth shines so brightly, and the visual contrast is so strong that the relationship between the two is quickly explained.
The process in which an elderly man in his 80s pursues private revenge on the pro-Japanese who took away his family was surprisingly detailed, and the first revenge, which is slow but delicate and quiet, is an opportunity to make the spectators nervous. From then on, the chase and escape, and the revenge that continues even in the intervening period, puts the tension as much as any violent genre. In particular, the process of overcoming a crisis due to the wit and wisdom of the elderly, and the accumulated narrative between the two characters, gives pleasure.
The reason why ‘Pil-ju’ has to take revenge overlaps with the excuse that the pro-Japanese characters appearing following the middle of the play were ‘a way to survive, not a pro-Japanese’, and makes the audience sympathize without a detailed explanation. What is scarier than Japan is communism, that young people these days do not need to become enemies with Japan because of the past history of the past, and that there is no future if we do not escape from the past, the pro-Japanese claims in the play are strangely similar to the words we hear everywhere these days. also harm
It is important to make a living, but it is worth thinking once more regarding why so many people fought and died under Japanese rule, thinking the fate of their country more precious than their personal life. I hope that no audience will judge the revenge of ‘Pilju’ as a new wave…
The movie ‘Remember’, which tells the story of Pil-ju, an Alzheimer’s patient who seeks revenge planned for 60 years in search of the pro-Japanese who caused the death of his entire family, and In-gyu, a 20-year-old best friend who unintentionally gets involved in his revenge, is scheduled to be released on October 26th.
Kyunghee Kim / Photo courtesy of Ace Maker Movie Works