THE CHILDE (2023) Reviews of Korean action drama - trailer and US release news
‘The chase is on’
The Childe is a 2023 Korean action drama film about a young man searching for his estranged father who is pursued by a quirky dangerous man. Chaos ensues and a shocking truth is exposed…
Written, directed and produced by Park Hoon-jung (The Witch: Part 2 – The Other One; Night in Paradise; The Witch: Part 1 – The Subversion; V.I.P.; The Tiger; New World; The Showdown).
The…
The Childe (2023) is a Chilling Good Time #TheChilde @WellGoUSA
January 9, 2024 (NYC)– The Childe (2023) is a Chilling Good Time. A Look at The Childe, an action-packed film of South Korean origin-available on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD January 16th! Here is a synopsis and review of this Well Go USA Entertainment release.
SYNOPSIS:
In a desperate attempt to secure funds for his mother’s surgery, an amateur boxer searches for the wealthy estranged father…
The way IOTNBO uses food and hunger as love and the desire to be loved!!
In the beginning we see Moonyoung walk into her dark and abandoned family home. She crawls onto a cold bed and in a small defeated voice, says "I'm hungry." Then the show immediately cuts to sizzling meat and a group of people eating a warm meal together.
Later, Juri's mom comments that when she met Moonyoung as a child that she seemed malnourished and that she devoured a bowl of rice as if it was her first time having a home cooked meal. (As if it was her first time experiencing warmth!)
On her birthday, she doesn't go out for a fancy meal. She asks Juri's mom to make her seaweed soup, a birthday tradition she most likely never really got to participate in, and a dish that often times is made by one's mother, one's father, at the very least bought by someone who loves them..
Later when Moonyoung stops eating, after she is devastated to learn that her mother killed the mother of the two people she loves most, (an event that traumatized them their whole life) Sangtae says he'll only forgive her if she'll eat the porridge he has brought her. She begs for his forgiveness over and over again but all he cares about is feeding her a warm meal to ease her suffering.
Moonyoung stops eating again later, deciding to live alone because she thinks she is only a burden to others. She's going to return to how she lived before they came into her life, a bottomless pit of hunger never satiated, never eating at home, never participating in the communal eating of food, of sharing warmth at meals, belly and heart always empty, empty! Gangtae notices her not eating, so everyone gathers together to formulate a plan just trick her into going to Juri's house for a meal. Juri's mom tells her a lot of planning went into feeding her just once so she should just eat, they even had Gangtae send over a list of her favorite foods so they'd be ready for her! Moonyoung cries and asks Juri's mom why everyone is so nice to her when they're not even her family, because even her family never loved her, only abused or ignored her. After hearing the answer, she wipes her tears and diligently gets to work eating, as if to honor and accept the affection these people have for her.
In her book "The Zombie Kid" Moonyoung uses the zombie kid as a metaphor for herself. She sees herself as someone who just has the need to eat, someone who can't feel emotions, who doesn't need love. But the last line of her own book questions that idea: What did the child really want? To just be fed? Or his mother's warmth? The show takes the self deprecating view she has of herself as unfeeling and only needing to satisfy her most basic needs, and flips it to reveal the truth. That she isn't an emotionless zombie, she's just been traumatized by abuse and never knew real love. They are saying her hunger is not just physical like she pretends it is, it is deeply emotional! She hungers for the love of a parent, the love of a friend, and the love of a partner! And by the end of the show she has healed and is surrounded by people who have become the family she never had, who worry themselves with feeding her even once, just because they love her!
I might know every single detail and any scene by heart of this drama. I cried a river and smiled a lot with this one. Definitely a gem!!!!
Uncontrollably fond
If you haven't seen it you lost lots of things. I literally cried whole through the show. Both are my fave actors on the industry so whenever I get bored I just open this one and cry myself out.
MOON LOVERS
I will never quit saying this but, WE NEED SEASON 2. First of all I hate historical dramas but this one hits different. I didn't even watch hwarang yet but watched this one for 74937r9 times.
RUN ON
This drama is my comfort drama. Rarely touching each other, no bad vibes, full positivity. I think this drama's vibe is one of the best.
25 21
The way i sobbed on this drama.. ffs... good acting, good cinematography, good looking people... what can I ask for more, I KNOW WHAT. MORE EASY AND UNDERSTANDABLE ENDING!
The smile has left your eyes
the scenario, the feels and the talent of the actors in it is just *chef's kiss*
Healer
The kdrama which introduced me to chang wook. I'm so glad it did, oh god. I fell for him easily. This drama is one of the first ones I saw and definitely made me watch it for 84838493 times. Over and over again....
Itaewon class
It's on the top 3 list of my comfort kdramas. I love seojoon and I love long term success stories.
It's okay to not be okay
The topic and the message of this drama was unique and one of a kind. I absolutely loved it. ALSO THE OUTFITS OF YEJI 🤌🏻🤌🏻