Review of A Day

This is a perfect drama with great acting by Ko So-young and also Lee Sung-jae. Every role of Lee Sung-ja is a complete new experience, he is so different in ATTACK THE GAS STATION, BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE and A DAY. Ko So-young was wonderful as the shy young lover in LOVE WIND, LOVE SONG, and now she gives a great performance as a young wife who urgently wants a baby. She is so much better than Meg Ryan or other Hollywood-actresses who always shine as stars. But Ko So-young becomes that woman with every beating muscle of her heart, and you never think of her as a star or even an actress. You think of her as this young wife with all her little failures and great desires. This is a film with many emotions, but it's never the usual corny American mainstream. It is a melodram in the way of the classics, not larger than live, but very small and very true and very intense. Each emotional movement, each frame, each dialogue fits perfectly in the whole composition about an adopted woman's dream of a child. It's hard for her to get a baby but finally it works. Unfortunately this wonder doesn't last long, because the embryo has no brain. But the personality of the child is so lively in the woman's mind that she must bear it ... A DAY is a film about difficult decisions, about joy and pain, about the value of live. I recommend this film to anyone who wants to see a true drama with realistic characters, deep emotions and not a single false tone.