| Plot: | Mina is a high school girl who is in and out of the hospital with illness. She falls in love with her next door neighbor, but the fact that she could die at any time threatens to jeopardize their passion.
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| Overview: | The story revolves around the reclusive Min-a, who is having a hard time adjusting to her new school. Having spent most of her young life in a hospital, Min-a keeps her true feelings and her malformed left hand hidden from the world.
That is until Yong-jae, a photography major at a nearby university, moves into the apartment below her. In spite of her feigned disinterest, his good-natured antics begin to draw her out of her shell.
A simple story of love and friendship, the film could have easily ended up being contrived and patronizing. But instead, "...ing" is a young adults film in the best sense. Like the earlier films of John Hughes, "...ing" is successful at taking the teenager's world at face-value, warts and all.
But whereas most films about teenagers present the characters as trying to grow up too fast, "...ing" is happy to let kids be kids, enveloping the movie in a tenderness and sadness that feels surprisingly genuine.
Courtesy of Joon Soh, Korea Times.
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