HelloHello

People usually say “Hello?” when they call someone. It is a moment that lets the receiver recognize who is calling and acts as a trigger to the conversation that follows. In Hello, Jung-eun works hard to pay for the caregiver of her mother, who is suffering from dementia. One day, she accidently receives a call from a North Korean woman asking Jung-eun to find her son. Meanwhile, her mother, whose symptoms are getting worse, urges Jung-eun to call her younger sister Young-ok, who was separated during the Korean War. Jung-eun promises the North Korean woman to find her son, with the condition that she talks to her mother pretending to be Young-ok. Also having directed Cart, Boo Ji-young’s latest work Hello solidly portrays the history of the sisters, having been rewound with the fragments created from the country’s division. The scene portraying LEE Jung-eun’s back, renowned actress from The Parasite, is very impressive. (PARK Chi-young)