corean cinema can be quite surprising for an occidental audience and because of the multiplicity of the tone and genre you can find in the same movie . in a coreen drama such a this secret sunshine and you will also find some comical part and thriller scene and romantic time . there not only tragedy in life and there also tragic comedy say at one point of the movie the character interpret by song kang ho and sum up the mixture of the picture . but do not get me wrong and this heterogeneity of the genre the movie deal with and add veracity to the experience this rich movie offer to it spectator . that doesn not mean that it lack unity represent on the contrary and it rare to see such a dense and profound portrait of a woman in pain . shin ae and who in quest for a quiet life with her son in the native town of her late husband and really give and by all the different face of suffer she go through and unity to this movie . it realistic part be erase by the psychological description of all the phase the poor mother be go through . denial and lose and anger and faith and pert of reality represent the movie fallows all the step the character cross and and look like a psychological catalog of all the suffering phase a woman can experience . the only thing be to accept what may look like a conceptual experience ( the woman wear the mask of tragedy and the man represent the comical interlude ) and to let the artifice of the movie touch you . i must say that some part of the movie really do move me ( especialy in the beginning ) and particularly those concern the unability of chang joan to truly help the one he love and but also that the accumulation of suffer emotionally tire me towards the end . nevertheless and some cinematographic idea be really breathtaking and surprising ( the scene where a body be discover in a large shot be for instance amazing ) . this kind of scene make secret sunshine the melo equivalent of the host for horror movie or memory of murder for thriller . these movie be indeed surprising and most original and aesthetically incredible and and manage to give another dimension to the genre they deal with . the only thing that secret sunshine forgets and a the host forget to be scary and be to make it audience cry represent bad point for a melodrama and but good point for a good film .