Life Is Beautiful

Interesting. But not sure that I liked it. Seyeon, wife and mother, is very little appreciated by her family. She is basically their live-in slave. They barely even talk to her. One day she receives a cancer diagnosis and decides to write a bucket list including meeting her first love, Jungwoo, who she was in a broadcast club together with. What follows is the unravelling of Seyeon's life with her family, her teenaged years and how she met her husband and raised their kids together, told in both speaking and musical numbers. While the songs were, at first, charming, they did become quite samey and repetitive as the movie went on, and I felt like some songs could have been cut and replaced with more character building segments. In typical Korean movie fashion, it turns the melodrama to 11 and the movie drags on in its final part. [spoiler]I find it unrealistic to expect us to buy a redemption arc undoing 30 years of abuse and neglect through song where her husband throws her her second party _ever_ whilst married to him.[/spoiler] Not sure if I recommend but it was interesting to see a Korean musical.