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And yet this is merely the setting for the real story. Secret Sunshine is about one woman, about one life. Not only about the course of a life, told from the outside, but also about the most personal, the deepest emotions of a woman with a truly troubled soul. The young Lee Shin-Ae loses her husband in an automobile accident. Soon thereafter her son is abducted and murdered. Lee Shin-Ae tries to keep going, clinging to her beliefs, wanting to forgive. But it is impossible. Convincingly, with enormous power, Lee Chang-dong shows how a life can change so much that it is no longer liveable. He drags us into this woman's internal struggle. It is unavoidable: for two and a half hours, you feel what she feels. The shock will daze you for days.
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