Speedy Scandal0

What hap­pens if a seven-year-old boy has a mother who is only twenty-two? What hap­pens if he has a grand­fa­ther in his mid-thirties? SCANDALOUS! Speedy Scandal is a Korean movie directed by Kang Hyeong-Cheol and was released in the year 2008. The story revolves around the life of Nam Hyun-Soo (Cha Tae-Hyeon), a pop­u­lar radio dee­jay, after his “unex­pected” twenty-two-year-old daugh­ter and six-year-old grand­son emerged in his life. The movie itself is worth watch­ing espe­cially for those who enjoy watch­ing come­dies. A KOREAN COMEDY as the theme sug­gests, would not be a suc­cess­ful movie with­out some tear­ful moments AND the most adorable and “OH-MY-GOD” young Korean actor, Hwang Seok-Hyeon act­ing as the six-year-old boy, Gi Dong. I enjoy watch­ing the movie because it shows how Nam Hyun-Soo changes from an inde­pen­dent and lib­eral man to a respon­si­ble and car­ing father (and grand­fa­ther) to his daugh­ter, Jung-Nam (Park Bo-Yeong). As some­one who gets annoyed by the pres­ence of chil­dren, he has a pretty tough time spend­ing his time with Gi Dong, his grand­son. Their rela­tion­ship even­tu­ally becomes strong through the games they play and Gi Dong help­ing out his grand­fa­ther to win his pre-school teacher’s heart (Jung Nam’s mother passed away when she was still young). Jung-Nam and Gi Dong have hid­den music tal­ents, just like Hyun-Soo. Hyun-Soo helps Jung-Nam in liv­ing up her dream to be a singer through a tal­ent com­pe­ti­tion organ­ised by his radio sta­tion. However, the three of them has to keep their rela­tion­ship a secret from the pub­lic because it may trig­ger the down­fall of Hyun Soo’s career as a famous radio dee­jay. So, when the secret about their rela­tion­ship almost leaked out to the pub­lic, Hyun-Soo self­ishly tells Jung-Nam and Gi Dong to leave his house. This means, Jung-Nam’s dream to be a singer will have to be destroyed (or at least, it will be hard for her to be a singer since her father who has a strong influ­ence in the music indus­try is no longer there to help her achieve her dream). Aww…this is the moment where I remem­ber cry­ing a lot because of Hyun-Soo miss­ing his (adorable) grand­son and his time spent to build up the twenty-two years of absence in Jung Nam’s life as a father. This part itself shows a lot about the mes­sage of the movie that was def­i­nitely the impor­tance of fam­ily in our lives. So, in the absence of his daugh­ter and grand­son, Hyeong-Cheol finally realises the impor­tance of their pres­ence in his life. He then dis­closed the truth to the pub­lic. Overall, I think the movie is pretty suc­cess­ful in send­ing the mes­sage across. It is indeed a pretty good movie for fam­i­lies to watch together. The actors acted really well as their roles. I rate this movie 8/10. Two thumbs up! Done by: Nur Amalina Shalan