Son, I know you hate this, but let me hug you just once.
No! You said we shouldn’t force things on someone we love.
Why did I say all those right things? But let me hug you this once. Don’t be so cheap.
I don’t like hugs but I won’t make you pay. I’m not cheap.
MOVE TO HEAVEN (2021) dir. Kim Sung-ho
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I came here every year with Dad. Dad made wishes like this, and I’m making wishes on his behalf.
Wishes? For what?
He made wishes for someone he loved to be healthy and happy.
—Sang-gu’s birthday wishes
MOVE TO HEAVEN (2021) dir. Kim Sung-ho
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Can we talk about all the social commentary Move to Heaven did? Let me break it down by episodes:
Episode 1 (Teenage factory worker who died alone in his cheap apartment):
Workplace negligence
Social inequity
School abandonment due to lack of funds
Ableism (the boss trying to take advantage of the parents' deafness)
Filial piety
Episode 2 & 3 (Elderly woman dies and a stash of cash is found)
Elderly abuse (negligence and abandonment fall under this category)
I don't remember the exact term, but taking advantage of the benefits of guardianship.
Grief and understanding of death.
Dementia
Parental regret
General regret
Episode 4 (Woman murdered by "boyfriend")
Femicide
Under the past point, missing the signs of abuse
Confronting trauma
Episode 5 (Doctor and Cellist)
Homosexuality and homophobia
Learning to accept yourself
Shame and fear of being disowned
Bravery (as in, it comes in different shapes)
Episode 6 (elderly couple commits double suicide)
Once again, elderly abuse.
The importance of small acts of kindness
Learning empathy
True love
Fear of walking the last walk alone (the reason why the crew was so desperate to find people to mourn the couple)
Episode 7 (Sang Gu and Kim Su Cheol's story)
The real meaning of living (was Su Cheol still living or just a body connected to a machine)
Gambling and underground fighting, and how difficult it is to break the cycle
Punch drunk syndrome
Guilt (Sang Gu feels guilty over Su Cheol's death)
Episode 8 (a walk down memory lane)
Child abuse
Abandonment
Brotherly love
The mall accident (a very important part of Korea's history)
The impact of promises
Once again, regrets and lifetime regrets
Episode 9 (Kang So Min search for his birth mother)
Concept of family
The dangers of international adoptions
Immigrants struggles
Cultural feeling of not belonging anywhere
Dying alone in the world
Unspoken misunderstandings
Episode 10 (Geu Ru's struggle to move on)
Infant abandoment
Sign language as an alternative to verbal communication (I had never seen this been brought up in media)
Family is something that you form, not something that's already there
Letting go
I missed some things, and failed to properly explain some others, but this is roughly what I gathered
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i love day6’s storytelling so much. youngk was saying on dekira yesterday how precious his single tear in the Right Through Me MV was. he was having a hard time squeezing that one tear out and spent a long time trying to get into the right emotions but couldn’t... until he started thinking about how hungry and sleepy he was. but just when the emotions were flooding in, the director shouted CUT thinking that youngk needed more time and the makeup artists were already flocking towards youngk to touch up his makeup. but youngk said that he felt his tears brimming and so HE TOLD EVERYONE TO STEP ASIDE AND FOR THE CAMERAS TO START ROLLING AGAIN. that was how his crying scene was born and i find that the funniest thing ever
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heyy i made another uquiz lemme guess your zodiac sign based on these unhinged kpop questions <3
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