Despite featuring a comedy genre, the South Korean film Oh! My Gran is actually not a film loaded with comedy elements but brings viewers into their lives in managing family members who have Alzheimer’s disease or senility.
It is well known that these diseases that erase the memory and other important mental functions will cause patients to experience confusion and difficulty in remembering something to the point of forgetting important people in their lives.
Using this concept, director Jung Se-Kyo builds a story plot of a man, Doo Won (played by Lee Hee Joon) who lives with his mother, Oh Moon Hee (played by Na Moon Hee), and his son Bo Mi (played by Lee Jin Joo).
The conflict began when Bo Mi was involved in a hit and run accident that left him in a coma. The only witnesses to the incident were Oh Moon Hee and her dog, Aengja.
However, due to her illness, Oh Moon Hee’s words were not taken seriously by the police until they faced difficulties in investigating the matter. Coupled with the absence of closed-circuit camera footage that can be used as a guide to the perpetrator.
The confused police caused Doo Won to be so depressed that he had to ‘go down to the field’ and work for hand in hand with his mother who often imagined he was a princess in television animation, investigating the incident.
Throughout the moving story, you can see how the plot develops with the unfinished conflict that has ever occurred between Oh Moon Hee and Doo Won in the past that caused Doo Won’s ex-wife to be chased away by Oh Moon Hee from home and had a miscarriage. What will happen? Can Doo Won and Oh Moon Hee find out who the perpetrators violated Bo Mi?
Sources: Oh My Gran