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The Weight

2013 · 107 min Drama
5.4 / 10 · TMDB

Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother...

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Original Title 무게
Year 2013
Country South Korea
Genre Drama
Director Jeon Kyu-hwan
Runtime 107 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.4/10 (17 votes)

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The film constructs a quiet, intimate portrait, relying on the stark contrast between physical decay and the resilience of human connection. It explores the boundaries of the body and the spirit, using the morgue's sterile environment as a canvas to examine the weight of existence.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound sense of melancholy beauty, a meditation on pain, art, and the fragile gifts we leave behind. It’s a film that demands and rewards patient attention. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jeon Kyu-hwan

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