Young. Many of us in their 20-30 years thought about what will happen next, how we will be in old age, how much sagging our skin, how weak our memory and body will be.
Unfortunately, everything will not be as beautiful and simple as we would like, because this is how nature works with all its mysterious and natural processes.
This film is the Chinese version of the Korean film Miss Granny (for reference, one of my favorites).
Therefore, I dare to compare both films and write the most appropriate review.
Okay.
Sheng Meng Jun is another grandmother, she has a sharp tongue, but at the same time a kind heart full of love for her grandson and son. And there's a lot of pain in her heart. After all, she is old, so old that no one is interested in her future, but only reminds of her past.
After a series of events, she gets into a photo salon, which makes her younger so that she looks the same age as her dear grandson.
The new Sheng Meng Jun has a beautiful voice and amazing appearance (the actress somewhat vaguely resembles Marion Cotillard) and in her old / new guise begins a different, happier life.
To describe further developments is meaningless and spoiler.
I want to talk about the difference between the Korean and Chinese versions.
And differences in small things: songs, style of the main character.
The storyline is mostly repeated, the actors both there and there are perfectly selected, which surprised me.
The Chinese version has one advantage - it's camerawork. I haven’t watched a lot of Korean movies, but I understand that they have a problem with the cameramen, they don’t have handwriting, all the dramas and films are similar in style to each other, as if they were shot by the same person or graduates of the same camera school.
Same color story. The Chinese version is warm and tasty as fresh pastries, sandy, orange and beige shades are very pleasing to the eye, besides the shooting is not so static, this is the level, probably, of good European cinema.
Also, the actors in their game tend to something different compared to the Koreans, although I am not so familiar with the patterns of play in China (which every country has), but they are different, they are different, but the difference is difficult to catch, I notice it, but I can not describe.
I think things will be clearer in the future.
And now you ask, which version is better?
I'll say both.
Chinese for the reasons described above, and the first because it is the first, because Shim Eun Kyung (Korea) may not be as beautiful as Yang Tzu Shan (China), but it is magical, they are both magical, the first by play or charm, the second by incomprehensible attraction.
Perhaps if I’d seen ‘Get Back at 20’ before ‘Miss Grandma’, I’d have praised the first one more.
And yet "Miss Grandma" seems to me personally more gentle, lyrical, funny. With the love line, the Chinese are worse, although... is this love line so important when the movie is already great?
The films have a very good script, beautiful heroines (both those who are younger and those who are older), one sad song for both films Shim Eun Kyung - Raindrop, cute old men and one Lee Jin Wook (Korea).
The idea of the film is clear: to show that old age is not so terrible and that the young should respect the old and that the old are more often better than the young (but I would say that it is not about age, but about the skull, well, come on).
And the movie about the transfer of souls, sudden rejuvenation, etc. was a lot, America and Europe love this topic, but Asian films are something with powdered sugar.
I can recommend both films without any buts.
p.s. and in the film starred Lu Han (from the group EXO) and he is good.