Having successfully won over a lot of fans with his particular style, it is no doubt that the audience has high expectations for his new film, ``One Day With My Son,’’ even if it seems to have many elements typical of a melodramatic tearjerker _ it is a story about a man serving a life sentence who gets one day out of jail for the first time in 15 years to meet his son.
In the film, Lee Gang-sik (played by Cha Seung-won) is a criminal, who serves a life sentence in prison after being convicted of murder and robbery. For the first time in 15 years, the well-behaved prisoner is granted a one-day prison leave. What he wants to do most is to see his son, whom he has never seen. He only remembers his son as he was when he was three-year-old _ the time he saw him last. He is excited and nervous. There seem to be too many things to do in just one day. He wants to say, express and let him know how badly he misses him and how sorry he is.
But things are tougher than expected and the 39-year-old father is clumsy at everything. His mother suffers from dementia and his teenage son, played by Ryu Deok-hwan, takes care of her without any help. He seems to have every reason to be mad at his incarcerated father. And the father doesn’t know what to say and what to do to mend a relationship that has been broken for 15 years.
But the father’s genuine feelings gradually open his son’s heart. To enjoy every second given to them, the father and son hang out together at night until they must once again part ways. |