#miss granny

[goawaywithjae]

This Sunday, “Past Lives” is up against films like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” at the Academy Awards. While I don’t think Celine Song’s extraordinary movie will win for Best Picture, I do think she has a great shot at earning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

Of course, “Past Lives” is an American film set partially in South Korea and with half the dialogue in Korean.

But this got me thinking about some of my favorite Korean films (plus the superb U.S. film "Minari") that I wanted to share with you. (The anchor links will take you to each review if you don’t want to read them all. As always each film is rated on a scale of ☆ to ☆☆☆☆.)

° “Miss Granny” (수상한 그녀) ☆☆☆☆ ° “My Love, Don’t Cross That River” (님아, 그 강을 건너지 마오) ☆☆☆ ° “Once Upon a Time in High School” (말죽거리 잔혹사) ☆☆☆☆ ° “Parasite” (기생충) ☆☆☆☆ ° “Train to Busan” (부산행) ☆☆☆½ ° “The Way Home” (집으로) ☆☆☆ ° “Minari” ☆☆☆☆

#Past Lives #Minari #My Love Don't Cross That River #Once Upon A Time In High School #Parasite #Train to Busan #The Way Home #Korean films #Korean film reviews #I wrote this #Substack #Substack writer #Substack Newsletter #Miss Granny

[meanrichbitch]

#kdrama #kmovie #miss granny #suspicious woman #movies #korean #relatable #lmao #20s #30s #depression #depressed #unalive

[finemaleactors]

Shim Eun-kyung and Lee Jin-wook

#shim eun kyung #lee jin wook #miss granny

[pohaislovesoismaggi]

Ok so I saw Miss Granny years ago, didn't love it, and just came across something that reminded me of the movie. So here's my rant -

I absolutely hate the protagonist because of how she is to her Daughter in Law (DIL from now on).

The granny was a single mother, in really hard times with no education (as far as I remember) so she struggled a lot. But she makes her DIL's life miserable.

She's constantly nagging her DIL about how to do stuff and especially about her cooking. Sure, there might be a way which she thinks is better and maybe she's right, but it's been decades since her DIL cooks it in her way. - So just let her cook in peace. If you don't like it and are so sure that your son likes your cooking better - You can make it yourself for the 2 of you. - Now I know people having to make their food separately due to someone not accomodating the tastes is a very wild concept in Asian households. But then the same way maybe the granny should learn to accommodate other people's tastes as well.

2. Next, she coddles her grandson. He is in a band and doesn't work. The DIL is worried about him and wants him to do something more financially secure. Now I also know the culture in Asia and asian parents make it very difficult for people to pursue their passion and generally I would sympathise with the grand son but I also get that parents can be worried. - But what actually makes me sympathise with the DIL is how the granny totally overlooks the DIL's parenting and encourages the grandson to leave and gives him some pocket money as well.

Which would also be fine but then she berates her DIL, for nagging the grand son. (At least the DIL is nagging him about a job and not about how to cook fish, for years at that). Then she has the audacity to berate her DIL saying HOW SHE (the DIL) JUST SPENDS THE MONEY HER SON EARNS. She is giving free childcare and relaxation to him and you!?!? If the granny has raised the child alone, she knows how hard it is. She should be happy she doesn't have to do it again with 2 grand kids but instead she just focused on how hard she had it. Well this I get, sometimes people are so used to their own struggles that others lives might seem easier. But it doesn't make it ok for her to berate her DIL for spending money FOR THE FAMILY, IN FRONT OF THE GRAND DAUGHTER - MONEY THAT IS ALSO SPENT ON THE GRANNY, MIND YOU.

3. Also, the granny loves bragging about her son being a professor - makes sense as it is a very lucrative career in SK. But that is also the thing which supports a family of 5 and the granny's life in her old days. Why is it not ok for her DIL to then be concerned about the grand son's career. Especially, when in Asian households children are considered responsible for taking care of their parents in old age (Something that the granny's professor son is also doing).

Now I generally hate parents nagging children in movies to look for traditional jobs and comparing the children because how suffocating it feels. But the granny makes me feel even more suffocated on the DIL's behalf.

So the DIL collapses due to stress one day, doesn't want granny in the room when talking to the family even when she's barely conscious. Which does make granny feel bad. And I suppose viewers were also supposed to feel bad about the granny being sidelined but sorry I didn't think so.

So, everyone is the way they are because of their lives, let say so but the granny doesn't learn much even after her adventures.

4. When she becomes young, has fun and all, and is invited to DIL's house, she again politely tells DIL the correct way to make fish. YOU ARE A GUEST. BEHAVE LIKE ONE. If anything, in Asian households we are taught to be polite to a fault. Couldn't she stop herself and not critique the host's food. Also host who is supposedly your ELDER.

Like maybe the way she cooks food is the way she ate it in childhood. Does she really have to do everything according to her in laws?

At the end of the movie, the granny and DIL are shown to be getting along. But I don't think she changed much.

The charm of the movie was seeing a young looking lady acting like an old granny - subtle nuances that a person from SK's culture would enjoy much more because they would understand the absurdity of the mannerisms and looks mismatch.

I see her getting a chance to enjoy youth that she couldn't and people getting to know her fun loving side - but I don't see her learning anything from her journey - if she would have been admonished by an elder person who thought she was a young adult, then she would understand, but even that is unlikely...

In short, I hate the movie because I couldn't bring myself to care for the protagonist's feelings.

There might some details I don't recall but yeah this is based on the gist of the movie I remember.

P.S. - Please feel free to write in whether you agree or not.

#Miss granny #Korean movie

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

destiel are on strike i get my news from sword grandma now

#ignore me i love to shitpost #she is also probably on strike if she acts but that's not the POINT i am HILARIOUS #sag strike #destiel #sword grandma #destiel meme #sword granny #wga strike #i aspire to be her just wow #i miss sword grandma </3

[aaapowerlines]

#miss granny #missgranny #quote #gore

[stellarmeals]

Working on a new poster drawing for my portfolio! Work in progress at the moment but I knew the discworld fans would wanna see it. Love y’all.

Yes I will make a background and also paint it. Still need to add sheeps too.

#discworld #terry pratchett #wee free men #tiffany aching #granny weatherwax #miss tick #nac mac feegle #nae king! nae quin! nae laird! nae master #we willna be fooled again!

[mousebraintakeover]

wordgirl if it took place in nevada

#myart #wordgirl #soul eater #i think this is a pretty straightforward au but i cant figure out who tsubaki should be #also! miss power is medusa. because they're both hot and they're both blonde and miss power being an ultra powerful snake witch is so true #i love soul eater so much its such a good show. makes me insane to think about smtimes #miss question is the frog girl bc i love her and the werewolf guy is the whammer #death is by extension tobey's mom #arachne is granny may because funny #crona is kid math #asura is maria #oh! oh! and butcher is the sid the zombie teacher

[retirement-home-rumble]

Retirement Home Rumble: Round 3

Side A

Why they would crush the other geezers under the cut:

WARNING: There may be spoilers

Witches Propaganda:

Miss Marple Propaganda:

#retirement home rumble #tournament poll #round 3 #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #discworld witches #nanny ogg #granny weatherwax #agatha christie #miss marple

[silwermoon-sims]

Wardrobe update! We went with red and yellow with splashes of green and blue! 🧀🐸

#sims 4 rags to riches #ts4 rags to riches #sim: cheese girl #charlie bloom #bloom legacy #showusyoursims #🧀🌷 #show us your sims #ts4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 #simblr #maxis match #it's so funny how a person's likes changes with the years #I used to be a white and pink colour girlie 💯 #and then a sad beige baby #but now I'm just loving bright yellows oranges greens reds #my granny's fav colour was yellow #I miss her!!! #covid took her from us :(

[ineffable-sideburns]

people who have never read Discworld: why are you all caught up in Good Omens metas and expecting something dark or angsty. GO is a comedy, a parody, at its core

me, remembering laughing one minute and crying the next while reading Discworld - a comedy, a parody.

listed below are two of my all-time favorite passages from the Discworld novels. the first occurs after Granny Weatherwax realizes she can’t save both the mother and the child during a difficult pregnancy, so she makes the decision to save the mother without asking the husband:

It was doubtful that anyone in Slice would defy Granny Weatherwax, but Granny saw the faintest gray shadow of disapproval in the midwife’s expression.

‘You still reckon I should’ve asked Mr. Ivy?’ she said.

‘That’s what I would have done…’ the woman mumbled.

‘You don’t like him? You think he’s a bad man?’ said Granny, adjusting her hat pins.

‘No!’

‘Then what’s he ever done to me, that I should hurt him so?’

and the second passage, which is also very Good Omens:

Thunder rolled… It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are—who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled… It rolled a six.

also, as to the first passage: Granny Weatherwax and the other two witches in the original witches novels are in themselves parodies

#good omens theory #good omens analysis #good omens season 3 #good omens speculation #good omens #good omens 3 #granny weatherwax #discworld #I would suck Terry Pratchett’s toes I miss this man so much

[goawaywithjae]

When we first meet Oh Mal-soon (Na Moon-hee), we see a cantankerous 70something who isn't pleasant to be around. She's horribly dismissive of her daughter-in-law and makes fun of her friends — including her long-suffering former servant, Mr. Park (Park In-hwan).

She saves her smiles and kindest words for her only child Hyun-chul (Sung Dong-il) — a well-respected professor at a top university — and she dotes on her grandson, Ji-ha (former B1A4 K-pop star Jinyoung), who is intent on becoming a musician, despite his parents' protests.

Mal-soon has a frenemy — a slightly younger woman at the senior center who flirts with Mr. Park and brags about her well-off son in America (a doctor) who has sent her a plane ticket to come visit him. When this kinda-sorta friend mistakenly orders a "United States coffee" instead of an Americana, Mal-soon takes great joy in pointing out the embarrassed woman's error.

#Miss Granny #Korean film #Hwang Dong-hyuk #Kdramas

[robnebody]

I can’t recommend the Tiffany Aching books enough.

There are 5 books that span the preteen to young adult events of a young witch from a barren place known as The Chalk outside of Ank-Morpork. These are lesser known gems that I cherish deeply. They were written with young readers in mind, but they’re absolutely comfort food (particularly if you were raised by a Scottish granny like me- listening to Stephen Briggs read the Nac Mac Feegles make me homesick). They were all available via audio book from my library app (libby).

#ankh morpork #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #esme weatherwax #tiffany aching #miss level #granny aching #rob anybody #nac mac feegle

[pratchettquotes]

"Do you remember--"

"I have a...very good memory, thank you."

"Do you ever wonder what life would have been like if you'd said yes?" said Ridcully.

"No."

"I suppose we'd have settled down, had children, grandchildren, that sort of thing..."

Granny shrugged. It was the sort of thing romantic idiots said. But there was something in the air tonight...

"What about the fire?" she said.

"What fire?"

"Swept through our house just after we were married. Killed us both."

"What fire? I don't know anything about any fire?"

Granny turned around.

"Of course not! It didn't happen. But the point is, it might have happened. You can't say 'if this didn't happen then that would have happened' because you don't know everything that might have happened. You might think something'd be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can't say 'if only I'd...' because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you'll never know. You've gone past. So there's no use thinking about it. So I don't."

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

#mustrum ridcully #esme weatherwax #granny weatherwax #lords and ladies #discworld #terry pratchett #romance #daydreams #future #past #hypothetical #what if #memory #knowledge #what happened #facts #opportunity #missed opportunity #making choices #cause and effect #best case scenario #worst case scenario #prediction #romantic idiots #what about the fire #extended quote #long quote

[clarissasbakery]

uhhhh swap au cómic i made a while back based off one by @////awwlba!!! family fluff makes me weak ❤️

#my art #my art! #my art tag #wordgirl #evil wordgirl #wordgirl pbs #wordgirl au #found family #wordgirl fanart #dr two brains #the butcher wordgirl #mr big wordgirl #leslie wordgirl #miss question #lady redundant woman #steven boxleitner #captain huggyface #becky botsford #granny may #chuck the evil sandwich making guy #also rip chuck

[wickedcriminal]

Hohenheim coming back to Resembool and asking Pinako Rockbell to take her family and leave the country, only for Pinako to refuse and say she needs to stay for the people who need a place to come home to

And then Edward coming back to Resembool and asking Winry to take her family and leave the country, only for her to refuse, refusing to entertain the idea that the boys wouldn't come back home to her

#he's just like his father #and she's just like her granny #in more ways than one #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma #not to mention #hohenheim mentioning that he's going to miss pinako's cooking #and edward tells winry that he and al will look forward to her apple pie #parallels parallels parallels