Hope (Korean: 소원 ; RR: Sowon), also known as Wish, is a 2013 South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik, starring Sol Kyung-gu, Uhm Ji-won and Lee Re.
The film is based on a true story, the infamous Cho Doo-Soon case in 2008, in which an 8-year-old girl, named Na-young in the South Korean press, was raped and beat by a drunk 57-year-old man in a public bathroom.
The court stced the man to only 12 years in prison, which caused outrage in the country due to the brutality of the crime and the man's history of physical and sexual violce.
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A young girl named So-won lives an idyllic life with her working-class parts Dong-hoon and Mi-hee. One day on her way to school, So-won is kidnapped, beat and raped by a male stranger before being left for dead. Fortunately, she survives and can call an ambulance.
The police notify Dong-hoon and Mi-hee of the attack and they rush to the emergcy ward. Upon their arrival at the hospital, they are horrified by the extt of So-won's injuries. So-won suffers from multiple internal injuries and has to undergo major surgeries. Dong-hoon is advised by a surgeon that So-won will have to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of her life. Moreover, once So-won regains consciousness, she can idtify her attacker with the help of Jung-sook, a psychiatrist.
So-won's attacker is arrested at his home, and the case becomes a media ssation much to the horror of her family and frids. Wh the reporters converge at the hospital, Dong-hoon takes So-won to a differt room and hides her from the media atttion. So-won exhibits symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and briefly mistakes her father for her attacker, screaming at him as he tries to fix her colostomy bag. Dong-hoon is heartbrok by this episode, and is further hurt wh So-won refuses to look at him or speak to him. Mi-hee faints and is hospitalized as well while trying to control the situation; later it is revealed that she is pregnant.
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Mi-hee initially refuses psychological help for her daughter as she wishes for So-won to resume her normal life. However, she relts after understanding her daughter's mtal state and lists the help of Jung-sook. Dong-hoon struggles to pay for medical expses and calls his frid and manager, Gwang-sik, with the intt of quitting his job to help take care of his family. Gwang-sik is aware of Dong-hoon's situation and convinces him to keep his job, also providing him with money to pay for So-won's medical bills.
Mi-hee and her frids rt mascot costumes to play with So-won to help cheer her up; this gives Dong-hoon the idea to hide underneath the costume of his daughter's favorite cartoon character, Cocomong, to communicate with her. So-won is unaware of who is underneath the costume, but she ops up to Cocomong and allows him to hug her. Gradually, So-won's physical condition improves and she can return home. During the car ride home, So-won vomits after passing the site where she was attacked. She and her parts are soon comforted as they notice that the local community has decorated their home with notes of couragemt. Mi-hee is touched as she sees that their home has also be cleaned during their absce.
Dong-hoon resumes work but also finds the time to dress up as Cocomong and accompany So-won on her way to and from school. Soon, her mtal state improves and she realises that her father has be hiding underneath the costume the tire time. Touched by his love and concern for her, she takes off the head of the costume and can look at her father for the first time since her hospitalisation.
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The family is worried about the upcoming trial as So-won has to testify against her attacker. With great effort, they attd the trial and So-won describes what happed during the attack and idtifies her attacker. Unfortunately, the man is only stced to 12 years in prison, angering So-won's family and frids. A fight breaks out in the courtroom with Dong-hoon intding to kill the attacker. So-won stops Dong-hoon and begs him to take her home. The family leaves the courtroom with little closure.
Sometime later, Mi-hee has giv birth to a son and is congratulated by family and frids, including Jung-sook and Gwang-sik. In the closing narration, So-won confides that she still struggles mtally and oft has to leave school early, though the birth of her brother has giv her a rewed sse of purpose.
On December 11, 2008, an eight-year-old first grader (known by her pseudonym Na-young) was on her way to school wh she was kidnapped by Cho Doo-soon (Jo Du-sun), a 57-year-old man living in Ansan. Cho repeatedly raped Na-young in an abandoned public church restroom, and as the child resisted, he beat, strangled and attempted to drown her in a toilet until she lost consciousness. Her parts found Na-young near death, and she was tak to a local hospital where after an eight-hour surgery, she had a prolonged stay in the intsive care unit. Doctors said Na-young sustained irreversible damage to her gitals, anus and intestines, which initially required her to wear a colostomy bag to replace her missing organs.
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Cho was arrested three days after the incidt; he was a habitual sex offder with 17 prior crimes, and had spt three years in prison for rape in 1983.
Prosecutors had demanded life imprisonmt for Cho, and more than 400, 000 angry netizs signed a petition at Internet portal site Daum calling for capital punishmt. A lower district court stced Cho to a 12-year jail term, citing his temporary loss of sound judgmt due to inebriation, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2009. This relatively lit stce sparked widespread public outrage, prompting ev th-Presidt Lee Myung-bak to express regret over the ruling during a Cabinet meeting.
Na-young's parts, represted by the Korean Bar Association, filed a lawsuit against the prosecution for subjecting their daughter to unnecessary physical and psychological distress; they cited the prosecution's hours-long, extded questioning soon after Na-young underwt major surgery during which she sat in discomfort and was forced to answer the same questions four times due to the prosecutors' inexperice with the electronic recording equipmt, their inability to follow protocol in obtaining testimony from a minor (taping her in plain sight of other patits at a hospital ward), and their delay in exhibiting a key piece of evidce (the arrest videotape of Cho) which would have eliminated the need for her to take the witness stand.
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In 2011, the appellate division of the Seoul Ctral District Court upheld the court's previous decision ordering the governmt to pay ₩13 million (US$11, 509) in compsation to Na-young.
Director Lee Joon-ik had retired briefly from the local film industry following the lackluster commercial performance of his previous effort Battlefield Heroes (2011). He returned two years later with Hope, casting top actor Sol Kyung-gu in one of the lead roles.
Lee said he wanted to make a happy movie that begins with a tragedy. With this heartbreaking material, I wanted to make the film as happy as possible. I am going to prest a human drama where hope blooms at the edge of unhappiness and desperation, after a series of ordeals and hardships.
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He maintained that he made the film to courage Na-young and other victims of sex crimes, and that instead of other films with a similar subject matter that focus on ssationalist aspects, like the crime itself, Hope is about what happs after, and is more about showing how life is good and worth living, emphasizing how the community rallied around the victim.
Actress Uhm Ji-won had previously declined the film two years before, thinking she wasn't talted ough or ready to take on the intse emotions her role (as So-won's mother) required. But wh Sol's wife and her close frid Song Yun-ah st the script to her, Uhm said, I started to think that this movie was supposed to come to me. I felt that someone should tell this valuable story. And I gained the courage to think that I could try it.
Hope was released in theaters on October 2, 2013. It had a soft oping, but through strong word of mouth, the film surpassed Tough as Iron (which oped on the same day), and topped the local box office chart with 1.21 million tickets sold (US$5.2 million) on its first week.
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On October 9, a public holiday, Hope recorded 210, 000 admissions, the daily highest during its screing period. It increased its ticket sales by chalking up a 16% increase from its October 3 tally of 187, 804 admissions.
By its second week, it had reached 2.4 million admissions (₩11.9 billion), demonstrating it had strong legs by dropping only 8% and 29% in its second and third weekds.
It stayed on the box office top t in its third week, adding 290, 000 to its modest hit status, with 2.67 million admissions.
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