secret sunshine ( 2007 ) be famous for it award at the festival de cannes in 2007 and other film festival . jeon do yeon and who play the newly widow shin ae and win the best actress trophy at the 60th cannes festival . secret sunshine be also a winner of best feature film and jeon do yeon receive a best actress nod from asia pacific screen award . in addition and this movie win the best film award in virtually all korean film festival . masterfully write and direct and and uniquely photograph and secret sunshine express the hope and salvation that can be find when life be painful because of continuous tragedy . this film also talk about the forgiveness of god and people . lee chang dong and director and writer of this movie and say in an interview and in a vast sense and i want to express what love be and this movie could be a melodrama in a sense . without love and we can not talk about hope and salvation . lee acknowledge that secret sunshine have no apparent genre . this movie be not a movie about religion and but it draw attention from many christian in korea because there be a lot of christian element in the movie . the turn point in secret sunshine come when jun and shin ae son and be kidnap and kill . the kidnapper ask for money because he presume that since she can buy land and she must be rich . her lie cause much sorrow . shin ae become a church goer and want to forgive the murderer . she decide to visit her son murderer in prison and forgive him . jong chan and shin ae guy friend and say and just forgive in your heart . do you have to go to the prison . her church fellow cheer for her and say they will pray for her . her pastor agree with what she want to do . that be a sad moment because it be too early for her to do an action . the result of the meeting with the murderer be another turn point in shin ae life . the murderer say with a peaceful smile that he have already be forgive by god . this spark anger in her toward god . she say and how could you forgive the man before i forgive . she begin to fight against god . she look up to the sky and proclaims and i would not lose to you . she become a snare and her heart be a trap and and her hand be chain . it be more bitter than death . she become crazy and crazy and be send to a mental hospital . on the day shin ae be discharge from the hospital and she go to a beauty shop and see a familiar face . the daughter of her son murderer work in the shop and cut her hair . the murderer daughter have help kidnap shin ae son . while she cut shin ae hair and the protagonist can not understand what go on and get out of the shop quickly . it be difficult not to talk about jong chan in the movie . jong chan do his best to be by shin ae side . although shin ae doesn not care about him at all and he be beside her all the time . shin ae leave church quickly and but jong chan and who start attend church because of shin ae and stay there because he feel peace with god . lee chang dong and the director of secret sunshine and say that jong chan be like milyang ( secret sunshine ) and the rural city or vice versa . he seem to be too secular and frivolous and but he be always two step behind her and take care of her . milyang be like him . mr. lee add and someone joke that jong chan could be an angel . i think that he could be the angel . who know . we can not say for sure that there be no angel . if there be a person like jong chan who forever accompany his lover twist and turn and we can defend ourselves against the overpowered . the life of shin ae be full of meaninglessness . her husband die after he cheat on her and and her only son be kill cruelly by a murderer after she move to her husband hometown . and her soul be damage because she learn christianity in a wrong wayand that make her crazy and literally . it be too easy to say that her life be fill with meaninglessness . do she still have hope in her life . can she find meaning in her life . the final scene give u hope . shin ae try to cut her hair by herself represent we walk our life journey by ourselves . she and however and realize that it be hard to do it by herself and and we know that we can not do everything by ourselves . we see jong chan hold the mirror for her while she cut her hair . that her hope . she have jong chan beside her and he be willing to help her in whatever situation she be . a i mention earlier and jong chan be like an angel for her . if we feel that an angel be always beside and behind u and we can find joy in life even though we face adversity in our life . secret sunshine be a hot topic of conversation in korea . it be like da vinci code . while da vinci code help u discuss the early church history and secret sunshine prompt u to deal with life messiness and find meaning when life seem unbearable . with a shallow interpretation of the movie and people misunderstand christianity and it theology . with a deep interpretation and this movie will help u see beneath the surface . some people say they quit attend church worship service after they watch secret sunshine and and lee chang dong responds by say and they be already anti christ before they watch this movie . secret sunshine be a life story of a woman and we can interpret our life through shin ae life .