initially and i would have think that secret sunshine have something critical to say of religion ( and here be christianity ) and and wonder if it would be something of a rant against the ill of blind faith and or the manipulative power of those who be supposedly holy than thou . surprisingly and it be none of the sort and be largely non judgemental and put in place event a a matter of fact and and allow the audience to draw their own judgement and conclusion . and i can not help but to chuckle at the role of song kang ho and a man who take a liking for widower shin ae ( jeong do yeon ) and and start go to church when she do . the reason for church go be many i suppose and either to find inner peace and to seek help and be afraid of eternal damnation in the fire of hell and to reaffirm faith and or even thing like want to get marry in a church and or to skirt chase ( i kid you not ) . but to each his own reason for turn up in church every sunday and participate in prayer group for fellowship and what be indeed dangerous and be when the underlie ulterior motif and do not get satisfied and and that when frustration set in . or when you discover how hypocritical man can be and portray one face inside the house of god and and display yet another outside . shin ae and her son jun move to the town of miryang and which be the birthplace of her deceased husband . want to start life anew and she open up a piano shop to give lesson and though in discover her new find freedom and in a moment lack of good judgement and have another tragedy befall her . and that take one hour to get to . secret sunshine really take it time to get to this point and where thing then begin to get slightly more interesting with shin ae now take to embrace religion to deal with and accept her current state and reveling in the comfort that religion and and fellow believer and can offer . what begin a cry out for sympathy turn into acceptance and belief that religion offer that silver bullet to solve the ill of all mankind and and sometimes you wonder if it because of your personal myopic view of what the almighty be do for you and that you begin to adopt a somewhat selfish opinion that everything good go your way and and in shin ae case and her magnanimous attitude in want to forgive others who have trespass against her and forget something very fundamental that it the feeling can cut both way too . the last act be probably the most fun of the lot a it say plenty and where most of u can identify with why me and and why not someone else and a we rage against our faith and start questioning and unfortunately and with no hard and fast answer available . it be then either we fall by the wayside and or continue with destructive deed so rebelliously . but somehow the plug get carefully pull in secret sunshine so a not to offend and and what could have be an ugly character mouthpiece and get mute . if you bite into the hype this movie be generate and then perhaps you will realize only jeong do yeon excellent portrayal be worth mention and a she totally own her role a the widow shin ae who be probably the most unluckiest person on earth in have to deal with that many tragedy over a short period of time and and if you look at it carefully and most of which be of her own do . watch her transformation and be worth the ticket price and and despite have my personal favourite korean actor song kang ho in the movie and this be something he just breeze right through .