Sunny - a Korean Comedy

Na Chen

MES 152

Sunny

     Sunny, is a Korean comedy. The film is about a middle-aged woman who tries to reunite friends club called. Na Mi, the heroine, is a housewife cleaning house and cooking. She has a nice and rich husband and beautiful daughter, but she feels that her life is lacking of something that can stimulate her. One day, she went hospital to visit her mother. Occasionally, she met her good high school friend, Chun Hua, who is a successful businesswoman now. They felt so happy, at the same time, Na Mi knew that Chun Hua got cancer and she would die in a few months. They were good friends and set up a team called Sunny with 7 members. Chun Hua has a wish that she can see the others again before leaving this world. Actually, Na Mi was a transferred student from countryside to this Seoul High School. Na Mi spoke Seoul language with accent, which made many other classmates made fun of her. Chun Hua, the captain of her party that had already six members, was rough and many classmates were afraid of her. She helped Na Mi and introduced Na Mi into her party. Then Na Mi played with the party members, they all have their beautiful dreams to be a writer, a Miss Korean and so forth. In order to satisfy Chun Hua’s wish, Na Mi hired a detective to look for the other members. The other four friends suffer different kinds of things---unemployment, cheated marriage, struggled sale work and losing daughter. The fifth friend, also the cause of the broke-up of their party, they couldn’t find her. These six middle-aged women, they danced, talked at night, fought and loved someone in their youth. They missed those days badly, so in the Chun Hua’s funeral, they reunited to dance with their song, Sunny, forget the pain of their life and recall the life of high school.