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I'm not a person with cerebral palsy or any disabilities, nor have I met someone with one, but this movie opened my eyes to what they might go through in their everyday lives. They should not face the mockery, the way people belittle them and say that they're worth nothing, that they can't do any good for themselves or those around them without giving them even a single chance to try just because they're slightly different than us. It breaks my heart so much the way people always mock him and make him feel that being born that way is the punishment that he should accept, when he didn't even ask to be born that way once (according to Chunhe's dialog from the movie). I despise his mother so much, how can you even say such cruel things to your own son? But then, if I try to look from her perspective, I also pity her just as much. I know that it must've been uneasy to raise a child with special needs and still have to go to work all day long, she must've been very tired too. But I still can't understand why she puts the blame on Chunhe when he didn't even do anything wrong at all.
I think the world really needs to be kinder to everyone, give everyone the same chance to try to be the version of themselves that they strive to be. Believing in them, their dreams, and all the passions that they have so that they will believe in themselves as well, that they're capable of doing many things, is a really important thing to do. To dream is every single living person's right, and no one's right deserves to be denied just because of the conditions that they have. And just as being allowed to have dreams, being seen is also an important thing. I think everyone deserves to be seen just as much as every other human being in this world. Chunhe and Grandma are the proof that believing in someone's dream really is important; Chunhe wouldn't be able to go to university, play the drums, and work in the cafe if his grandma didn't trust him.
Of all the scenes here, the scene where Chunhe tried to choke himself with candies, the scene where he asked his Grandma, "Does my sister want to have a brother like me?", and literally every single heartfelt moment between Chunhe and his Grandma makes me teared up so much. Oh my dearest one... I really can't imagine how their life will be without each other. And lastly, I genuinely think that Jackson Yee is such an amazing actor. He nailed it.
This review may contain spoilers.
I'm not a person with cerebral palsy or any disabilities, nor have I met someone with one, but this movie opened my eyes to what they might go through in their everyday lives. They should not face the mockery, the way people belittle them and say that they're worth nothing, that they can't do any good for themselves or those around them without giving them even a single chance to try just because they're slightly different than us. It breaks my heart so much the way people always mock him and make him feel that being born that way is the punishment that he should accept, when he didn't even ask to be born that way once (according to Chunhe's dialog from the movie). I despise his mother so much, how can you even say such cruel things to your own son? But then, if I try to look from her perspective, I also pity her just as much. I know that it must've been uneasy to raise a child with special needs and still have to go to work all day long, she must've been very tired too. But I still can't understand why she puts the blame on Chunhe when he didn't even do anything wrong at all.
I think the world really needs to be kinder to everyone, give everyone the same chance to try to be the version of themselves that they strive to be. Believing in them, their dreams, and all the passions that they have so that they will believe in themselves as well, that they're capable of doing many things, is a really important thing to do. To dream is every single living person's right, and no one's right deserves to be denied just because of the conditions that they have. And just as being allowed to have dreams, being seen is also an important thing. I think everyone deserves to be seen just as much as every other human being in this world. Chunhe and Grandma are the proof that believing in someone's dream really is important; Chunhe wouldn't be able to go to university, play the drums, and work in the cafe if his grandma didn't trust him.
Of all the scenes here, the scene where Chunhe tried to choke himself with candies, the scene where he asked his Grandma, "Does my sister want to have a brother like me?", and literally every single heartfelt moment between Chunhe and his Grandma makes me teared up so much. Oh my dearest one... I really can't imagine how their life will be without each other. And lastly, I genuinely think that Jackson Yee is such an amazing actor. He nailed it.
