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Customer Rating: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10 (1)
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Well known for her performances in films like Happy End and Harmonium in My Memory, acclaimed actress Jeon Do Yeon takes on not one, but two challenging roles in director Park Heung Shik's My Mother, Mermaid. Jeon plays Kim Na Young, a desperate young woman who goes in search for her missing father. During her search, she comes across the place where her parents first met. Flashing between past and present, the film takes the viewer back in time to find out more about Kim Na Young's mother (also Jeon Do Yeon).
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Product Title: My Mother, Mermaid 人魚公主 人鱼公主 初恋のアルバム - 人魚姫のいた島 - （My Mother, Mermaid : 人魚姫 ） 인어공주
Artist Name(s): Jeon Do Yeon | Park Hae Il 全 度妍 | 朴 海日 全 度妍 | 朴 海日 チョン・ドヨン | パク・ヘイル 전 도연 | 박 해일
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Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Release Date: 2004-09-17
Language: Korean
Subtitles: Korean, English
Country of Origin: South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Duration: 110 (mins)
Publisher: Bear Entertainment
Other Information: 2 DVDs
Package Weight: 260 (g)
Shipment Unit: 2 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1003820101

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* Screen Format : Anamorphic Widescreen
* Sound Mix : Dolby 5.1
* DVD Type : N/A
* Extras :
- <인어공주> 제작과정 다큐멘터리
- <인어공주>만의 비밀 엿보기
하나,<수중촬영>
둘, <1인 2역>
셋, <인어공주의 촬영지들>
- <인어공주>의 NG및 삭제장면
- <인어공주>의 STSFF들

* Director :박흥식

때밀이 울 엄마... 사랑이 뭔지 알기나 할까?
나영(전도연)은 때밀이로 맹활약 중인 억척 엄마와 착해서 더 답답한 아빠와의 생활이 지긋지긋하다. 안 그래도 ‘엄마, 아빠’라는 존재가 불만스럽기만 한 이 상황에 아빠는 갑자기 집을 나가 버리고--; 할 수 없이 아빠를 찾아 엄마, 아빠의 고향인 섬마을로 간 나영.
하지만! 그곳에서 꿈에서도 만나리라 생각치 못한 사람을 만나게 되는데...

이럴수가?! 스무살 적 그녀가 눈부신 첫사랑을 하고 있다!
나영의 앞에 나타난 사람은 스무살 시절의 해녀 엄마 연순(전도연)! 씩씩한 모습은 그대로지만 현재의 모습과는 비교도 할 수 없이 맑고 순수한 모습의 연순은 너무나 사랑스럽다. 그런데 지금 그녀는 섬마을 우체부에게 온 마음을 빼앗겨 있고, 자전거를 타고 다니는 맑은 눈빛의 우체부 진국(박해일) 또한 연순에 대한 마음을 감출 수가 없다.
하지만, 스무살의 연순과 진국은 첫사랑이 아직 서툴기만 한, 그야말로 연애 초보!
나영은 일단 엄마의 확실한 조력자가 되기로 맘먹고, 두 사람의 사랑에 살짝 끼어드는데...
과연, 엄마는 첫사랑을 이룰 수 있을까?
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10 (1)
Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8.2 out of 10 (4)

Kevin Kennedy
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August 17, 2007

This customer review refers to My Mother, Mermaid (Korean Version)
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 Look through our parents' eyes Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
"My Mother, Mermaid" is a movie for everyone who ever has had conflicts with a parent. In other words, it is a movie for everyone.

Jeon Do Yeon plays a young woman who has had to forgo higher education because her father has blown the family finances by co-signing on a bad loan for a relative. Dominated by her foul-mouthed, coarse mother, she takes a job with a large company that wants to send her to New Zealand for training. While she is thrilled at this prospect, she must skip the trip in order to search for her father, who has gone missing after learning that he has a terminal illness. She believes that he likely has returned to the remote seaside village where he met her mother, so she travels there to look for him.

The journey proves to be a kind of "Through the Looking Glass" experience -- Jeon Do Yeon's character finds herself back in time, seeing her mother as an illiterate orphaned young woman (also played by Jeon Do Yeon), taking care of an irresponsible younger brother, working as a coral diver, and yearning for the handsome young mailman (i.e., her future father).

Through this plot device, Miss Jeon's character comes to know of her mother's youthful dreams and disappointments, gets to see her struggle to learn to read and write and to act as a parent to her younger brother. Miss Jeon's character also gets a fresh perspective on her father by seeing him as the thoughtful young mailman who takes the time to teach her mother to read and write.

In short, the film encourages us all to embrace our parents by viewing the world through the lens of their life experiences. Jeon Do Yeon sparkles in both of her roles; she richly deserved the "Best Actress" award she won for this film. I have downgraded this version of the film a bit because there are some serious problems with the English subtitles in the first 20 minutes or so of the movie, but those problems do not interfere with the viewer's ability to comprehend the film's story.

This film is very highly recommended for a general audience. Indeed, perhaps this film should be mandatory viewing for people who have trouble understanding their parents' perspectives on life.



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Anonymous

June 14, 2005

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Underrate movie Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
I think this was a very beautiful and touching movie. It's underrated. The story, acting, cinematography, and soundtrack are all very well done. The underlying plot device, that a young woman goes back in time and meets her mother when she was a young woman, is perhaps a bit contrived, but it is really well done and doesn't overwhelm the story. And it's not a typical Hollywood happy ending, nor a typical Korean overly dramatic and sad ending; it's realistic (except for the part of going back in time). It reminds a little of Cinema Paradiso, though not quite as good as that great movie. Nonetheless, I highly recommend this beautiful movie.
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Anonymous

May 24, 2005

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good movie Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10
i liked this movie, but sumthing in me is feeling that this movie wasn't all that i expected out of this movie. the story was okay. the acting was okay. the meaning of the story was okay. there was nothing beyond okay for me. to those who didn't watch it yet, i say that u should just try it out and give it ur own opinion about it.
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Anonymous

January 30, 2005
nice movie Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
I took a chance on this movie, based on the interesting premise. This is a very heartwarming, but not overly sentimental movie. It reminds me of Cinema Paradiso though it's not quite as sentimental as Cinema Paradiso. I highly recommend it. The story is good, characters are memorable and real, and cinematography is excellent.
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