Review of Mother

Mother (2009)
5/10
Mother: 5/10
14 February 2011
The first shot opened with the mother dancing in the middle of nowhere. The shot was the beginning of this tragic story of a mother trying to do everything she can to clear her son of murder. Yoon Do-joon is a boy who doesn't have the brains to know what he did. When caught in a murder case, he swiftly signed the confession papers even though he has no memory of committing the crime. His mother is desperate, wanting to get her son out of jail, tries everything there is possible to clear his name. But from when she was turned down by everyone to which she killed a guy, we didn't care for her anymore.

The first hour of the film depicts only on the situation itself without going anywhere. Yoon Do-joon's mother doesn't want to believe her son is guilty so she does everything she can. But you have to know that it gets annoying when she fails over and over again. It was frustrating to see but at the same time so intriguing to watch. Hye-ja Kim successfully portrayed Mother as a struggling woman who desperately wants to save her son. Mother doesn't offer much if at all and it is aimed for a specific audience, but at times when it didn't bore me, it was actually entertaining. But entertaining "at times" will not be enough.
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