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multi-tasking is my middle name. fashion is my passion. Red is the color that i love. Being literate is also part of my life. plus i am a realistic person 8D!
I just watched Jibeuro also known as The Way Home a Korean Movie on youtube.com (please prepare a tissue box beside you when you watch this), even though the videos were cut short to fit into youtube's limited 11 minutes. I first saw the DVD in Moviemagic 1Utama, but never had the slightest hint what was it about so i ignored the DVD, until i saw a member of MYB forum post in under her Movies that you much watch, i decided to youtube it. I swear to god, this show might seem very boring, infact i am going to be honest. It's is a little boring, but it made me brawl my eyes out and it touched my soul and heart to it's very core. It's a story about a young city boy who was forced to live with his maternal grandmother in the rural village she was living, due to his mum's unsuccessful business. She left him in the care of her mother as she searched for a new job. Despite his lack of respect and impatience towards her, she never gave up trying to please him and never stopped showing him love and kindness.
The was this time where his gameboy ran out of battery and he was throwing tantrums (breaking her pots and throwing her only shoes! I feel like slapping the hell outta him when i saw that. It broke my heart into pieces when she had to climb up the rocky mountain shoe-less and carrying two heavy buckets of water! I was crying like mad.), complaining and whining to his grandmother, even he already knew she doesn't have the money to do so. So he stole her ornament hairstick and attempted to trade it for the batteries, but he failed because it was a rural town and they didn't have the battery size he wanted. After that he went home, sad and angry, but when he saw his old grandmother standing in the stoney pathway awaiting his return. Quietly trailing his grandmother's back to their small little atap house.
There was also anothe incident (also the most tear jerking and the most touching part) whereas he went to the market with his grandmother to sell melons, oh i forgot to mention, his grandmother is a mute but she is not deaf though, ahahah if you were wondering. She was trying hard to persuade passerbys to buy the melons from her, the boy was fighting back his tears, but that didn't stop there, after selling the melons (i think) she used the money to buy him a pair of new sneakers and bought him noodles while she sips on her green tea (i would feel as guilty as hell if this ever happened, i would rather stay in my out shoes and eat raw leaves than to do this). After that they boarded the bus, when suddenly her spoiled grandson asked her to buy him 'chocopie'a chocolate snack. So she went down from the bus and sacrificed the money for the bus ride to buy her grandson the sweets he wanted. Little that he knew, when he arrived in the bus stand he waited for her return. The next bus came but there was no sight of her, so he waited again, not very long later he sees her walking slowly and huffing for breath on the dusty road back to their home, holding the heavy package that she had before going to the market. Fighting back his tears, he quickly went to his grandmother and helped her carry the heavy package home, he also saved the last piece of the snack in her bag.
Yet another small part of the movie after the market incident, whereas he was asked to do a favor for his grandmother, she also passed him his gameboy but only to be rejected by him saying that there no battery. So she wrapped the gameboy with a paper, thinking it was useless he just stuffed it into his pocket. She placed the new sneakers she bought for him beside him, but only to be kicked away by him. He wore his old shoes and begin his journey to the town nearby. He fell halfway through the journey, scraping his knee is progress. Wiping his tears, he took out the wrapped package, only to reveal his gameboy and money to buy new batteries for it. Touched, he started crying until he arrived back where he saw his worried grandmother standing in the usual pathway, awaiting his return. He started crying loudly when he saw her, not because of his injuries but rather because of his grandmother kindness. His grandmother wiped his tears and inspected his injuries and then passed him a letter stating that his mother is coming to bring him back to Seoul.
Picking up the paces, he knew he won't be able to see his grandmother for a while. He quickly taught her how to write and communicate, and the both of them started crying midway through the teaching (i joined them too!). Then after his grandmother went to bed, he started helping her thread the threads through her needles so that she could sew her broken shoes when she needed too. He also drew some stuff on his favorite postcards.
Then the day of the departure finally came, when the three of them including his mother awaits the arrival of the next bus. The spoke about something, but the boy was reluctant to look at his grandmother or even speak to her. When the bus arrived, his mother boarded the bus followed by him, but he quickly came down and passed her a stack of stuff and went up the bus sitting infront of his mother. The old grandmother went to the window next to his seat and tapped the window ( i cried the most this part ), but he continued to ignore her. But when the bus started moving, he quickly ran to the back of the bus and said "I'm Sorry" with a sigh language and waved her goodbye. After that scene you could see the old grandmother opening the package her grandson gave to her, revealing all his favorite postcard addressed to him. They're all written and drawn on with different pictures and wordings (Like I miss you, Grandmother's Sick and so on), and the show ended showing the old grandmother walking back to her atap house.
This show has won the South Korea Movie awards, and is directed by one of the few female directors in Korea. This show is also dedicated to all the grandmothers out there.
I am deeply touched by this show that everytime i think about it, my eyes starts to turn red and watery. I also called my grandmother right after i watched this, she has always wanted me to give her phone calls but i was too occupied with my own things i sometime ignore her. Which i am Guilty of, even though i am not good at saying I Love you directly to her, i changed the subject by asking whether she is watching the televison as her favorite program was about to start. I was somehow able to talk without letting her know i was also crying at the same time. I don't want the same feeling of guilt to take over me again, and even though i am not good at saying the words Love you straightforward-ly i am able to show it out through various ways, which i am quite proud of. I have lost my god-mother and the last thing i remember was asking her to get me something real expensive, i could totally relate to this boy as i was almost the same as he was. But I learnt my lesson when i lost her for good. So i am not going to let this chance slip by me as it did before. I am glad i met my god-grandparents before that passed away. Although i find it hard to let go, i am happy that they don't have to suffer anymore. May God Guide them through.
Grandma I love you.
PS. This show was also a show that shows children abandoning their old parents to survive on their own, so please don't do something so cruel. Think like this before you do something vulgar and regret your whole life ahead of you, "Do i want my children to treat me the same way?", "Who raised you up when you were little?", "Who showed you love and patience?", "Who gave you support when all hope is lost?".
So what are you waiting for? Call/Hug your grandmothers and grandfathers (and of course your parents) and tell them how much you love them before the chances slip away, as there is no such thing as turning back time.
