What a tear-jerker it was regardless of its happy ending!!!
"20 Once Again" is a remake of a Korean movie "Miss Granny", and now there is a Vietnamese version "You are my granny" (Em là bà nội của anh) :)) Of course, I'm never interested in Vietnamese movies that were converted from the most popular movies in Korea and China because I dislike Vietnamese morden movies :) They are mostly made more for the entertainment value than the artistic value.
That's why I chose to watch the movie in Chinese version (perhaps it must have originally been Korean one) instead. Honestly, Tammy used to suggest me the movie once but I didn't turn attention to it because there were a lot of movies and TV series at that time that I couldn't afford time to watch. Time flies and I totally forgot the to-watch list until one day, I caught up the same title at a cinema and my memory hit back to the movie.
To summarize briefly, Meng Jun is a 70-year-old widow who complains about everything and places pressure on her daughter-in-law intensively. One day, family decides to send her to a nursing home. To her dismay, she wanders and drops by a photograph studio to take a final portrait and this gives her the magical second chance at youth, she becomes 20 again. With her new transformation, Meng Jun conceals her indentity, changes her name to Li Jun and starts to chase the dream of her hay day - becoming a singer. In the end of the film, she has to choose between continuing the life for which she is always yearning at the peak of her age or giving a blood transfusion to her beloved grandson which would transform her into the old widow again.
As an Asian woman would do, she used to dedicate her lifetime to her son, and certainly in the case, she is also more than willing to put her grandson first. What a touching situation!!! I should have watched the film on International Women's Day to comprehend what a woman as a granny, a mother, a wife would do for her beloved family. Like my granny, my mother and me in the future as a woman, too :)
I wonder if I would be able to become that great woman, but I believe my maternal instinct will arise when I give birth to my first little angel ='D Awwww, it is going to happen in a few more years :')
At the present, I'm 23... I'd better learn to live this life to the fullest so that I won't hold regrets as the dawn of my age comes. Life is too short to waste for negative things and hatreds towards others. When you grow old and are buried in your grave, what you have left on the Earth is not how much your property is, how many children you have but what good things, happiness and achievement you have done for others. It doesn't need to be great achievement...that's just how you have dedicated a whole lifetime to your family members, fought for them and loved by them as a real woman is worth being praised already.
Stay young. Stay halicious!
Hal
