The movie is based on a real-life incident in South Korea and tells the brutal story of a mother who learns that her daughter committed suicide because she was raped by male students. The film was released on November 22, 2012 in South Korea.
"Don't Cry Mom" is a South Korean drama film directed by Kim Yong Han and starring Yoo Sun, Nam Bo Ra, Shin Dong Ho and Kwon Hyun Sang.
Synopsis
Yoo Rim, who has just divorced her husband and is ready to make a fresh start, originally planned to start over after saying goodbye to her unfortunate marriage with her only daughter, Yoo Yin-ah, who has just been promoted to high school student. The two of them live a simple and peaceful life together. However, the tragedy of Ginya committing suicide on her birthday destroys Yoo-rim's last spiritual pillar.
One day, she learned the truth about her daughter's tragic death through her classmate, Zhao Han: she was raped by a number of male classmates at school, but the perpetrators were exempted from punishment due to their status as minors, and she couldn't bear the consequences and chose to take her own life.
After that, Liu Lin was hit by an unprecedented blow, and no longer believe in the law, she decided that no matter what method, she would help her daughter to report this revenge, and drove her step by step towards an irreversible end.
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Behind the Scenes
1. During the filming of the movie, the weather was extremely unstable, with sunny days being interrupted by sudden downpours. This made it difficult to pick up the scene, such as the originally dry ground, after the rain will become wet, visual inevitably have a suspicion of wear. To solve this problem, the crew made a huge canopy for rainy day shelter.
2. During the filming, Shin Dong-ho had to travel frequently between Korea and Japan due to promotional activities in Japan, making him the busiest person in the crew.
3. The movie was written as a book and published as a novel, which is the same as the movie, but focuses more on the details of the inner changes of the characters. In addition to describing the original true story, the novel also includes information about the story.
4. The movie ranked first among the 18 movies released in the third week of November 2012 in terms of the number of tickets reserved, showing that moviegoers have been looking forward to the movie's release for a long time.
5. The movie is the first in the history of Korean cinema to tell the story of underage sex crimes, and has been called the Korean version of "Hurricane Rescue".
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