At the beginning of the story, the audience was invited to see the situation in the village in ancient times. There was a bus that stopped at the side of the road and a man in uniform on foot, when the bus stopped, the uniformed man rushed to find someone, when he found someone he was looking for, the man called a girl who had not he recognized with a glowing expression.
After introducing the story at the beginning of the film, the audience is now taken to the present scene. The story of this film tells of an Old Man named Kim Sung-chil (played by Park Geun-hyung) who lives alone in his house. From first seeing the look on Kim Sung-chil's face who looked angry because there was a car parked in front of his house, the audience was able to catch the character of Kim Sung-chil who tended to be temperamental. Kim Sung-chil works in a shop run by his boss, Jang-soo (played by Cho Ji-woong). Jang-soo has a daughter named Ah-young (played by Moon Ga-young) who is dating Min-sung (played by Park Chanyeol). Sung-chil falls in love with his front house neighbor, Im Geum-nim (played by Yoon Yeo-jeong), an old woman who secretly cooks rice for her every day. Im Geum-nim has a daughter who lives with him, Min-jung (played by Han Ji-min).
This film has a conflict between families. It was told that there would be renovations in the area around them to work, almost all of the shops agreed to procure the renovation, but there was one shop that had not yet agreed to, namely Jang-soo's shop. Jang-soo's shop hasn't agreed because the procurement of this renovation was strongly opposed by Sung-chil. However, when Sung-chil began to deal with Geum-nim, the temperamental Old Man slowly began to become a stiff person as a teenager who had fallen in love for the first time. They had dinner together, had a double date with Ah-young and Min-sung like teenagers in general. Not only that, they even date themselves in the playground, dance, and fight in public like most teenage couples. But behind it all, there is a sad story at the end of the story where the audience never guessed it. Ending of this film made me shock. Sung-chil, who had thought his life was alone, turned out to be not as alone as he thought.
The character of the actors and actresses in this film is very natural. Even the audience can get carried away by emotion, sadness and sorrow presented by actors and actresses. This film is also a big screen acting debut from Park Chan-yeol, a member of the famous Korean boy band, EXO. In my opinion, his character is very fierce, innocent, cowardly and simple, far different from Park Chan-yeol, who we know as a rapper in his group. His acting is not too special considering he only gets a small portion. This film tells about, no matter how great the problem is, how painful it is to be forgotten, but true love is always there to remind him. Geum-nim's figure taught me to keep thinking positively and live happily as hard as any temptation that hit. For those of you who like drama-comedy genre films, I recommend this film to watch.
Review of Salut d'Amour
