Miss Granny

There's not that much time left until the end of this semester. I'm pretty sure all of us can feel the exams getting closer and closer. That also means that I should be studying right now (or sleeping considering how late it is), but there's just one huge problem: Procrastination. So, instead of studying I have been watching a movie for the past two hours. That's also why I'm going to write a post about said movie now, just to create a false sense of productivity. Basically just to make myself believe that I didn't just waste away 2 hours on the internet.

Source: wikipedia.org

What's it about?

Miss Granny is a South Korean movie that was released in January 2014. It tells the story of a 70-something year old woman, who magically turns into her twenty-year-old self after getting her picture taken in a mysterious photo studio.

Oh Mal-soon is an old and bitter widow, who lives with her son and his family. She really isn't happy about her age and tends to nag at about anybody, especially her daughter in law. After said woman had suffered a heart attack Mal-soon walked around the city and finds a photo studio with a picture of Audrey Hepburn in the window. She spontaneously decides to get her picture taken and finds herself in the body of a twenty-year-old afterwards. Now she obviously can't go home anymore, so she just changes her name and decided to pursue a career as a singer – a dream of her she never had the chance to persue. Now going by Oh Doo Ri, which sounds similar to Audrey, she joins the band of her grandson Ji Ha. They even get casted to perform on a big music program despite Oh Doo Ri acting like the elderly woman she actually is. Even so, she still ends up in a love... square between Ji Ha, who doesn't know that she's his granny, a music producer and her neighbor, an elderly man who has been crushing on her since the last millenium. I'm not going to tell you how this all is going to resolve. That you have to find out yourself.

The movie has been doing remarkably well in the box office last year. Not only  thanks to features such as B1A4's Jung Jin Young as Ji Ha or a cameo by Kim Soo Hyun, even though that certainly didn't hurt. It did so well, that the Chinese took notice of it. On January 8th, 2015 a Chinese remake featuring former EXO member Lu Han was released.

What did I think of it?

The movie got suggested to me earlier today by a friend of mine. I'm usually a bit cautious when it comes to Asian pictures. The movies are normally not that bad, but if you've ever watched a K-drama, you'll know how unbelievably dramatic they can be. I'm glad, however, that I trusted my friend's judgement. Miss Granny rarely involved any drama at all and built all of its comedy on Oh Doo Ri's conspicuous behavior. She simply acts like a grandmother, patting her grandson's butt, scolding him or telling him to eat properly. This of course seems really funny when she's in the body of a young girl. She is also really bold and says her opinion out loud ,which of course often leaves everybody around her dumbfounded. All in all I thoroughly enjoyed watching the movie. It was consistently funny, but showed some serious scenes as well. It's a movie that can make you laugh and cry while not getting boring for the whole two hours.