A movie filled with plenty of life lessons!
This. This is my kind of movie. The movie that suits my taste so perfectly. Revenge, but this time without violence. Watching this movie reminded me of Kim Sabu’s quote “Just because you vented your frustrations doesn’t mean you’ve gotten revenge. Even if you go around swinging a baseball bat for 100 days those people probably won’t remember your face. If you really want to get revenge.. become much better human being than those people. Don’t get revenge with anger, but with skill. If you don’t change, nothing else will either.”Some people might think the movie would be about Korean ladies speaking broken English for comedy, and that this movie may have a thin plot, I was also one of them at first. The title says it all, “Samjin Company English Class”. What could be so entertaining from watching people learning English? But let me tell you, this ‘English Class’ is way more important than what you think it is. The casts, all women? Yes, it’s mostly women. But the casts were amazing! They acted out every emotions every feelings so perfectly. The 3 main characters all had their different personalities and they acted out their roles flawlessly.
This movie would make you feel like you’re in a rollercoaster. You smile in the beginning, seeing the friendships; you laugh; then smile again, feeling proud of what women can achieve; you cry, because there would be some tearjerker scenes that made me fail to hold back my tears; then it ends with all smiles. Women empowerment would always be my favorite genre. I’m proud watching it!
This movie teaches us not to label each other, not to belittle anyone (especially women, and high school graduates in this movie), “nothing is impossible, because we are great.” Be extremely proud of yourself, do what you love and don’t let anyone tell you what to do. Stand up for what is right and fight for what you think is true.
These girlies deserve an applaud for their acting! Every of the actors and actresses are excellent. After watching Lee Sung Wook as an antagonist in Collectors yesterday, I met him one again here but as a protagonist LOL! The K-Movie world is a small world after all~~~ So, overall a 10/10 for me! Definitely recommended for all of you who needs a non-romance comedy movie about women empowerment! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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boring yet entertaining
this was like a mix of erin brockovich and money game. even though the plot was boring, the essence of the movie came from the "tiny" people others took for granted, so this was mainly character driven and those characters made it all entertaining enough that I never got bored.the female power mixed with the underdog type of feel really made this shine. agh I even teared up at the end, I was like yes you tiny people, you can do it!
tiny here was more about their "significance" in the work place and how others perceived them, I think the ant thing really emphasized that, alone they were
Lee Joo Young didn't have as much screentime as I hoped but I really liked her character too. overall the acting was great, the songs weren't memorable and I never rewatch stuff
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A personal review of one of the highest grossing korean movies of 2020
Samjin company english class is a good movie, i really enjoyed watching it and honestly the cast really made this movie work, outstanding performances by all the leads from go ah-sung,esom and Park hye-soo,they really brought dorothy and Michelle and sylvia to Life (i used their english names) ,also the supporting actors were all amazing, i really enjoyed so-ra's character although Lee joo-young had so little screen time but she did an excellent job portraying her character and I also loved all the men's characters i really loved how the director made them or portrayed them as hard working employees who do their job as they are told and didn't make them evil characters, although there are a few evil characters (no spoilers) , this is my first time watching Lee jung-pil's work and i liked it,it was entertaining watching it and that's why I think the movie did well in the box-office and surpassed 1million admissions despite covid-19 rising in korea,i would definitely watch and anticipate Lee jung-pil's work in the futureWas this review helpful to you?
A female focused 90s movie about teamwork.
I loved this movie so much. The styling was awesome and embodied the 90s vibe. I want to give an award to whoever did the hair, makeup, and gorgeous outfits. I loved the teamwork aspect of the story and the mystery vibes and people coming together to fight really made the story for me. I'm not going to spoil anything but I did not see some plot twists coming.The acting was so great. I especially liked what the character of Yoo Na and the actress was like the perfect fit for this character. I can see why she got the reward. There was not one actor in this movie who was bad. The music was wonderful and added to the vintage, funky feel of the movie.
I do not know why this story is rated so low on MyDramaList. Maybe for the fact that the story was somewhat slow in the begging and more focused on learning about the life of the characters which may not be some people's thing. But it is my thing and watching to the end and learning to love all of the characters made the ending SO SATISFYING.
I recommend this to people who need a little more female-focused movies right now.
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