20th Century Girl

20세기 소녀 ‧ Movie ‧ 2022
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pretty_potato_
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Mar 14, 2024
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Overall 10
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 7.0
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the movie broke me

the ending was something I was really not prepared for… after watching I kept crying for the whole day seriously😭😭💔

what broke me the most was that when he went to live abroad ( i forgot the place ) she kept waiting for him but he never returned because he died especially the exhibition scene and the video tape that he made for her to watch😭I could not stop crying at all 😔💔

i got really mad at Bora’s friend when the twist came I was like why just whyyyyyyyyyy did this had to happen🥲

I must say it is a really heartbreaking movie especially for someone like me who is really sensitive🥲

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Jenniefavbtch
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Aug 11, 2024
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Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 8.0
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SUCH A GOOD KDRAMA OR MORE OF A MOVIE

This kdrama was such a fun drama that I watched this drama or actually movie twice. Not only the movie was nice but also the people who acted in it. Like the boy is so handsome and the woman is so beautiful and young. I think it's a shame that the girl only knew that the boy had died after 15 years. I also really like the chemistry between the two. The boy was afraid of heights but still went into the attraction to tell her his feelings. The letter he had written for her was a really beautiful letter that really brought a tear to my eye. Bo-ra went on a blind date and that man said the same thing as her ex which made her cry, I felt really bad for her. She and her friends are so sweet to each other, they had a fight with each other, but they still gave a lot of hugs. I'm glad the girl had the hard operation. The music style of this drama is also very good but not the best. I would definitely watch this film drama again for the third time, this was my own little review, hopefully it helped you, I definitely recommend watching this drama, I shed a few tears myself, but now I'm really saying goodbye BYE PS CHIARA PLACENTI

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Kiki
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Jan 20, 2024
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

BEAUTIFUL! PLEASE WATCH IT!

I will say I didn't expect much of it, but because my friend kept telling me to watch it I eventually did. And I don't regret it. I love how it's so realistic, and that the friends keep their friendship no matter the misunderstandings. I love the vibe, the way it focuses on the life of the female lead and her story, the way the plot didn't add too much unnecessary drama is very rare for movies or shows in general to do. This movie made me cry so much and every scene was filled with emotion. Lovely.
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Dramagirly321
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Jun 15, 2024
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Overall 9.0
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 10

Sad

Thought I was getting a seeet cutesy romance full of fluff & love.. did not expect the ending..
ugh be prepared to cry…overall very cute
Love the 90s aesthetic. Great with the time movie. Truly shows the 90s but goodness is this a heart tug.. ughhh I wanted a cute lovey dovey movie to relax & was not ready to cry..
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aishu
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23 days ago
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Overall 8.0
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 9.0

beautiful yet heartbreaking

⭐ Overall: (8/10)
a film wrapped in friendship, youth, love, and an impactful ending.

💭 Thoughts:
this movie was very well done! personally i loved it.
it was not hard to finish, and it was not boring and slow, i was hooked 😽. i think ending really stood out to me, like the entire vibe was just so in the moment.

✨ Highlights:
- i really enjoyed all the times Na Bo-Ra (FL) and Poong Woon-Ho (ML) spent together before any of the romance and miscommunication 🥰! their acting was so natural as well as their chemistry, even though they were friends, you could really see the tension between them. and lets take a moment for their visuals? BREATHTAKING 🛐.
- i think the director really did well with the movie, and the production was cooking throughout the movie! i loved the vibe.

⚠️ Lowlights:
- Kim Yeon-Du was a bit annoying, but of course she had her reasons for it. 😅

🎶 OST: (6/10)
the music REALLY gets you into the moment, the cute moments are to die for. (i want more of poong woon-ho and na bo-ra, thank yew)

📌 Recommendation:
these are for the people who like sad endings (i know people like this ☺️), slice of life, and youth.

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thz89
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Dec 25, 2022
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 10
Rewatch Value 7.5
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Movie with rich storyline and characters

So, I had this movie on my watch list for a long time (since it's release), not knowing anything about the story and never had the time to watch it in one go. I even considered it watching in chunks while riding the subway on my way to work.

Well, I'm glad I didn't. I finally got the time on christmas day and the invested time was worth it. After the first couple of minutes I also had to look twice, since I clearly didn't expect Kim Yoo-Jung in the main role, but I was even happier after my mind accepted it was true, since I really like her. The story then proceeded and I was on an emotional rollercoaster - I did go through all emotions the story presented. I was once again catched off guard after the major plot twist. Up till then, I believed it was an easy school romance story line but well - it was not. Once I swallowed the twist, the story then was easy going till the end.

So, in general: I liked this movie. Does it have flaws? Yes, it has. My main critique is the changed actress for Na Bo-Ra in the two timelines. Even though I do understand, that Kim Yoo-Jung is rather young and probably not suited to play a mid to end 30-year old women and maybe even can't depict the cool-headed and distanced emotions Han Hyo-Joo can, I would have just loved her to see it in that role. I see two reasons for that:
a.) Kim Yoo-Jung had more than 95% screentime of all Na Bo-Ra scenes, so it feels kinda ungrateful, that she can't do the last 5%
b.) It would be a huge chance for her, since she mostly played air-head, short-tempered characters, and I would have loved her to see and expand her acting spectrum with a different role, and these 5% would have been a great and forgiving possibility.

So, the change of the lead actress makes the end worse than it could be. For 1:45 hours or so I felt with Na Bo-Ra, because Kim Yoo-Jung did a great job. But then, from one scene to the next (and only for the last minutes) I have to connect with a different actress? That's not cool. If the switch would have been done after 1h or so, it wouldn't have been such a great issue.

Otherwise, the story was well written. All actors did a great job depicting their specific character. All of them felt alive and important for the story. None was expendable.


To sum it up, I rate it as 10/10 personally, but it should have been a 9.5 due to the changed actress.

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qualifiedkdramer
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Jul 28, 2024
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Overall 8.0
Story 6.5
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 1.0

DONT WATCH IF U CRY EASY

To be honest, this started out so cutely like it was a pretty casual condensed drama. I really thought the ending would circulate around the fact the the ML and FL do long distance then he comes back but NO. I fast forward to my girl Bo-ra getting ghosted but then she gets invited to an exhibit. I really thought that she would finally meet up with Woon-ho but then no i saw a death year. I WAS LIKE OH HELL TO THE NAH THIS BOY DIDN'T JUST DIE. SPOILER he did. AND it was so unexplained like whatttt. I had to google and ppl are saying he had an accident on the way to the airport and things like that. Nonetheless, i cried buckets and it made me actually upset. 1. because of the sheer sadness of it. and 2. because literally who expected that punch in the heart and 3. the most unclear situation. Lowkey, it seemed like the end was a bit rushed but the vhs was so cute i cried for a good 10 mins. To sum up, its a pretty good watch but I dont like watching sad endings. I watched it for the hype and I prolly wouldn't watch it if i knew how it ended. ♡qualifiedkdramer♡

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ivybis
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Feb 17, 2023
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Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 6.5

Predictable

Cliched, predictable high school drama with some very beautiful young people. Bo Ra promises to look after her best friend's crush while she leaves the country. Predictable situations ensue, but you don't mind it too much since the main leads are so darned beautiful. I loved Bo Ra's relationship with her father the most. I wish they had given their banter a little more airtime. I was hoping the love triangle would give way to a close friendship--sort of like a three musketeers relationship, but the writers had other ideas. I hate to say it, but the unoriginal plot, and depthless supporting characters made this a bit disappointing. The acting was okay, but I think they could have gone a little further in raising the stakes. It general, a very sweet teenaged movie.

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Ramnyli
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Mar 30, 2025
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Overall 9.5
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 9.5

Great love story from student era.

It's a great movie. I love the story and the way we can see how their love story unfolds. It left an impact on me, and I didn't expect the ending. The acting was great, as was their chemistry. Definitely recommend.

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mycloverformrdarcy
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Mar 12, 2023
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
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I knew the ending already thanks to Tik Tok, and I still started bawling my eyes out 45 minutes before the movie ended. This was such a sweet and pure depiction of first love, I wish I could have seen even more of the characters because they were so fun and likable the second the movie started. Oh to have such friends like this, to be in the broadcasting club, to eat plums straight from the tree, to have a school field trip at the ocean, to get drunk with your friends, to drunkenly confess your feelings, to have payphone conversations with your first love, to send emails back and forth with your best friend/crush... the list goes on. This broke my heart in a million pieces. To think Bo Ra never got to read Woon Ho's letter because he dropped it in the rain, or that it took so long for her to find out what happened after years of feeling disappointed. It'll take a while to recover from this one 💔

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That Dayum Gigi
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Dec 3, 2022
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Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 3.0

Overall, a cute film about first loves with angst, drama and a few twists and turns thrown in.


Just finished this and true to form… the ending sucked 😂😂. I don’t know what it is about Korean films and dramas but they are so good… they just keep sucking you in until you get to the end and then 85-90% of the time, they just miss the mark. I mean like nose dive off a cliff miss. Not to mention the fact that I thought this was a drama and only realized it was a film when some one mentioned it and asked didn’t I wonder why I had been watching it so long.. I did not and after watching a certain scene, I was left wondering how the show would move forward for 9 more episodes😂😂 Good thing it was a film because I would have been pissed having watched 10 episodes of a drama only for it to end the way it did… 😡
The characters were likeable for the most part and a few got on my nerves at times but overall I enjoyed them and they played their roles perfectly. The story line was pretty good as well… made me reminisce on my first love and kept me interested.. until that nose dive of an ending. Overall it was a cute film about first loves with angst, drama anda few twists and turns thrown in.

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SIMANTA SENPAI
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Jan 19, 2025
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Overall 8.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 8.5
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One of the Saddest Movie I Ever Watched.

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