What a heart warming story! And a triumphant showcase that the country has some of the best talents in the region when it comes to scripting, directing and acting.
I have seen Jo Seung-woo in both Wanee and Junah and Who R U?, but Marathon is no doubt the best performance from this most talented actor. I am looking forward to check out The Perfect Games, another 'sports' film, to see if he can live up to my expectation now raised so high by his natural performance as an adolescent handicapped by autism but finds back his own voice through participating in a marathon.
There is hardly any plots per se, yet plenty of soul searching in the minute depiction of the mother and son relationship when they forge ahead to overcome the challenges encountered by 'a special child' and those around him.
I wasn't so impressed by the director, Jeong Yoon-chul's later work If I Was a Superman, although it stars two of the country's best actors.
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