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A mother’s worst nightmare comes true in upcoming thriller Missing
Nov 24, 2016
If you ever wanted to see Gong Hyo-jin
(Jealousy Incarnate) not play a plucky, Candy-like heroine for once, then
upcoming thriller Missing may be just the movie for you. And if you want to
support two accomplished actresses and a female director doing what they do
best in male-dominated Chungmuro, this is also the movie to look out for.
In Missing, actress Eom Ji-won (The Phone,
Thrice Married Woman) plays Ji-seon, a single working mom who hires a Chinese
nanny named Han-mae, played by Gong Hyo-jin, to look after her baby daughter.
One day, her worst nightmare comes true, and her daughter goes missing, along
with the nanny. She suspects the nanny kidnapped her child, and she goes on a
desperate chase to locate her daughter, her sanity diminishing at every turn.
In the trailer, Eom Ji-won returns home
from work one evening and finds her baby and nanny missing. She’s seen running
around and calling out her daughter’s name. The guard at her apartment complex
remarks that the nanny, Gong Hyo-jin, is a weird woman, and we see her on a
bicycle, circling a middle-aged woman pushing a stroller. She knocks over the
woman’s groceries as a diversion and shoves the stroller away, sending it
rolling, while the woman scrambles to collect the produce that spilled out. A
student eyes her with a puzzling gaze, but Gong Hyo-jin ominously brings a
finger to her lips, requesting silence. Eom descends into hysterics while
searching for her daughter, and the trailer ends with Gong sobbing and wailing.
I’m a fan of both Eom Ji-won and Gong
Hyo-jin, but I’m more interested to see the latter shed her sweet, girl-next-door
“Gong-vely” image for a darker, more sinister role. Eom Ji-won is no stranger
to darker films or the role of the mother; in the movie Hope, Eom played the
mother of a sexual assault victim.
It’s a nice change of pace to have neither
of the lead actresses playing the romantic interest or sidekick to a male
protagonist; Eom Ji-won and Gong Hyo-jin are front and center and driving the
film. Not only do we have two A-list actresses headlining, but the writer, Hong
Eun-mi (Love Exposure), and director, Lee Eon-hee (…ing), are women as well.
I’m all for greater representation of women in film so I’ll be adding this
movie to my watch list. Candys are fun and all, but so are deep, complex women,
whether good or evil.
Missing will premiere in theaters on November
30.Source-http://www.dramabeans.com/2016/11/a-mothers-worst-nightmare-comes-true-in-upcoming-thriller-missing/