Every war has never found its absolution; its damages lifelong. We hear stories from the past generations of their harrowing experiences, and we can only vicariously grasp them. Ode to My Father also seeks to make its audiences understand what it was like in the perspective of an everyday man, this time against the tide of Korean War and Vietnam War. Director Youn Je-kyoon’s dramatization of the wars and evasion of their political implications seems to be the biggest hurdles that both the director and the audience must work around throughout its entire two-hour running time. However, the film capitalizes more on the heart of its protagonist, as it follows the man’s emotional journey that takes him to Germany and the Vietnam War, and to the present day as a septuagenarian, all the while waiting for his redemption, once he realizes when to let go.
The film opens in modern-day South Korea, as a butterfly flutters its way through the district’s bustling and crowded streets. It finds its way to an old and grumpy shopkeeper named Deok-soo (played by Hwang Jeong-min), and the flashback begins of his life as a child in the time of the Hungnam Evacuation of 1951, as thousands of refugees try to flee from what would become North Korea. Upon eventual convincing, the US Navy offers its aid to transport the refugees into their boats, which inevitably caused a stampede. It is here that the young Deok-soo is separated from his younger sister and father, an event that marks the purpose of his journey as the breadwinner for his remaining family members. While constantly finding means to answer the needs of his family, he eventually finds himself as a coal miner in Germany, and caught in between the wartime in Vietnam.
Director Yoon Je-kyoon manages to build a vivid history of Korea during these wars with such a lavish production and a similarly grand (perhaps too grand) score that accompanies it. The constant check for aesthetic unfortunately drags the film down to melodrama and prevents it from fully exposing the heart it so willingly parades. The story is overwrought, however Hwang Jeong-min’s (the star of A Man Who Was Superman) raw acting carries such an emotional impact at the last third of the movie, one can somehow forgive some of these drawbacks.
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Ode to My Father will be shown exclusively at SM cinemas this June 17, Wednesday as part of SineAsia, a project of Viva Communications and SM Cinemas.
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