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Title: The Call (2020)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Park Shin-Hye | ... | Seo-yeon | |
| Jong-seo Jun | ... | Young-sook | |
| Sung-ryung Kim | ... | Seo-yeon's mother (as Sung-ryung Kim) | |
| El Lee | ... | Young-sook's mother | |
| Park Ho-San | ... | Seo-yeon's father | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Oh Jeong-Se | ... | Sung-ho | |
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Kyung-Sook Jo | ... | Sun-hee |
| Ryu Kyung-Soo | ... | Junior police officer | |
| Dong-hwi Lee | ... | Baek Mi-hyun | |
| Chang-gil Moon | ... | Junk collector | |
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Yo-sep Song | ... | Police officer |
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Chae-Young Um | ... | Seo-yeon (young) |
Two people live in different times. Seo-Yeon lives in the present and Young-Sook lives in the past. One phone call connects the two, and their lives are changed irrevocably.
The Call is complicated but not in the way it wants to be. With a story like this one, original and very difficult to properly develop, you can have a great movie or and entertaining one but you need a really capable writer in both the cases. Unfortunately Chung-Hyun Lee is a decent director that knows how to entertain the audience but it's not a writer that knows how to handle a story this particular, even if he was the one that came up with it. This idea, because this is what we really see here: a great idea, needed more effort into the script to be transposed into something that made sense, instead the screenplay appears shallow, messy and ignorant, with logic too often sacrificed for entertainment purposes leading to plot holes and inconsistent plot twists that make you enjoy the movie less and less until it becomes more disappointing than engaging and more nonsensical than smart.