'The World of Love': quietly powerful film that celebrates life's resilience

At 18, Lee Joo-in (Seo Su-bin) seems to have everything. She's the class president, a top student and effortlessly popular among her peers. While her main preoccupation seems to be romance, she navigates life with a bright, confident energy, living a full and seemingly ordinary life despite a shadow in her past. Her world is shaken when news breaks that a notorious child sex offender is being released from prison and returning to live in her very neighborhood. Alarmed for his younger sister, Joo-in's classmate Su-ho (Kim Jeong-sik) starts a petition to protest the man's return. Every student in the school signs without hesitation — except Joo-in. She refuses, objecting to the petition's wording, which leads to a tense confrontation with Su-ho. In a burst of anger, Joo-in blurts out something that stuns her classmates into silence. Soon after, she begins receiving mysterious, anonymous notes. "The World of Love" marks the long-awaited return of director Yoon Ga-eun, six years after her acclaimed films "The World of Us" (2016) and "The House of Us" (2019). Known for her sensitive and autWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times