"Telling a story" in Cantonese...
Smile, Donghae (웃어라 동해야) has some of the same actors from Three Brothers, but I find it bizarre, even creepy, that two of the male characters have fallen in love with a mentally retarded (so the subtitles say) woman (and one even got her pregnant). Maybe the character is not really mentally retarded, just emotionally retarded, but she is definitely developmentally challenged. One of the men, the uncle in the family, says she is "pure/innocent" but I think this is ridiculous sentimentality. It seems to me that such a woman could never be a functional wife and mother. How was she able to raise a child in the first place? (Some might say there are real-life examples of this happening, but I really doubt that it takes place without additional support and oversight.)
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