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Riceboy Sleeps (2022)

Drama | 117 minutes
3,56 88 votes

Genre: Drama / Family

Duration: 117 minuten

Country: Canada

Directed by: Anthony Shim

Stars: Choi Seung-yoon, Ethan Hwang and Dohyun Noel Hwang

IMDb score: 7,6 (2.200)

Releasedate: 17 March 2023

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Riceboy Sleeps plot

Life for Korean single mother So-young has never been easy. She was widowed after the love of her life, a former soldier suffering from schizophrenia, committed suicide. She left for Canada to build a better life for her and her young son. Unfortunately, the land of prosperity and integration is anything but for them.

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BBarbie

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Appealing family drama about a single mother who emigrates from South Korea to Canada and has to deal with all kinds of acclimatization problems, in addition to the cultural differences in raising her son. A sensitive and beautiful drama in three parts. The part in which the mother confronts her son with his roots appealed to me the most.

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De filosoof

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The film tells the semi-autobiographical story of the director (and actor) Shim, in which the immigrant has a hard time and has to deal with loneliness and racism, and which takes the form of a triptych: a traumatic history in Korea where a woman with her son has to flee, the immigration and integration in the new country with estrangement from both your (unknown) origin and between mother and son and finally the healing or reconciliation with both your origin and between mother and son back in Korea.[ /spoiler] The film may thus have a little original or special theme and may also be a bit sentimental, but the story is beautifully portrayed and well told so that the film definitely has an emotional impact and it is just a beautiful film.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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We're writing the 90s and such a conversation at school that you can't hit because that's violence but meanwhile just accept racist remarks ("hit is worse") goes through marrow and bone. And I say '90s' on purpose, but somewhere this is still happening now. Less than then, probably and not everywhere, but still absolutely present and too often anyway.

Film about growing up as an immigrant and an immigrant child. At times fascinating, also how names for children are westernized and how immigrants visit each other. But I found the focus on the central duo mother-child less fascinating. That boy will probably have his problems due to racism and exclusion, but I found the choices here too extreme. This was not a film about dealing with racism, but a film about a boy who is rather quiet and puberty and who also (coincidentally) is treated racist, or at least has to do with it. The biggest pain point is that there will be some extra drama by giving the mother a serious illness. I don't know if this is based on my own life, but it does disturb the film.

Visually nice. The film starts again with one of those narrow frames that I'm done with now. But luckily there are few close-ups and there is enough space to see the viewer to breathe a bit. At the end the image gets wider, something I didn't realize so that's hearsay. That was in Korea itself and would mean something like oppressive immigration country and open motherland, but that failed for me because I found the film open enough from second 1 in terms of image. 3.5*.

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