"Anthony Shim said the camera's point of view is the father's... damn. --Luke Donovan"

"In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea." --Letterboxd description



this isn't the kind of film I seek out to watch, I watched it after a good friend of mine recommended it.

this film is really beautiful; it impressively evokes a feeling of nostalgia for a life that isn't mine.
most importantly this film made me think more about my own experience with feeling a disconnect to the world around me, especially as someone growing up in a foreign country. although I am Incredibly White and thus wasn't marginalized the same way as dong-hyun and his mother so-young are throughout the film, I still vividly remember how the language barrier and having a different background to my peers affected my early life. this film really made me confront that a bit more and reflect on if and how it still affects me now, which really pulled on my heartstrings in a way i kinda didnt expect.