Blesser

Sang Yeon is a confident and competent political reporter who lives a carefully planned life. After a long wait, she gives birth to twins, but the second one, Ji Woo, is diagnosed with a second-degree developmental disability. That’s when things change. Sang Yeon can no longer be the same person, and everything turns upside down. Based on the autobiographical story of a former journalist and mother of a child with a disability, the film spans over a decade and reveals, through various anecdotes, the very real and concrete challenges that parents and families with disabled children face. In particular, it is when Ji Woo enters elementary school that the prejudicial stigma surrounding disability and the loopholes in the system officially come into play. It takes Sang Yeon a long time to accept the movie’s message that “disability is not something to be cured but a way of life” into her own life. This time taken will overlap and resonate with the time outside of the movie for a while, leaving us with long questions and a long aftermath.
(Source: BIFF.kr)