20th Century Girl

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20th Century Girl

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Country: South Korea
Genre: Romance/Dating, Drama
Production Companies: Yong Film, CJ ENM Studios
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Overview

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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YuluaR
YuluaR
PRO
24 Oct 2022, 20:03 #
A very touching film about first love. I definitely recommend watching it!
foxycat
foxycat
06 Nov 2022, 13:16 #
Фильм для спокойного, расслабленного просмотра!
Но в конце было дико обидно, что не догадалась до такого предсказуемого завершения - от этого ещё больше плакала 😪
ThornyRose
ThornyRose
06 Nov 2022, 16:22 #
A very warm film for most of it, it seemed like a teenager, first love, mercy, stupidity ...)) I was very imbued with the characters, well, at the end I sobbed, although expected, but I hoped for a happy ending so 😭
elfiina
elfiina
07 Nov 2022, 16:27 #
The movie is just amazing. Sweet, romantic, but without a happy ending. I definitely recommend watching for those who like to cry. I liked
tombas
tombas
12 Nov 2022, 21:35 #
The ending broke my heart of course ...the movie is good
_lesya
_lesya
20 Nov 2022, 09:45 #
A very warm film.
And where without tears. 🤧
Mercers
Mercers
PRO
13 Jan 2023, 00:22 #
I understood that he died, he couldn't just cut off all ties... but why did he die? From what? What happened 🥺
Such a good beginning and such an end 😩
juljuljud
juljuljud
03 Nov 2023, 11:19 #
here, too, the cause of his death is interesting
merlott
merlott
PRO
25 Jan 2023, 16:05 #
The first two thirds are very good. The ending seems to be weak. The main character is a miracle how good.
dexterkz
dexterkz
13 Dec 2024, 03:14 #
@merlott: I completely agree. There was a feeling that the ending turned out to be somewhat blurred. And such a caste would need another hour to develop the plot
chokoladka7
chokoladka7
09 Apr 2023, 00:48 #
Начиная с середины фильма рыдала без перерыва. Фильм очень понравился. Герои,сюжет, сама картинка,все снято очень хорошо💔
kseniyayuryevna
kseniyayuryevna
PRO
14 May 2023, 08:21 #
I burst into tears, the film is very touching.
I downloaded it thinking it was a light movie about teenagers, but it turned out that I cried the last half of the movie without stopping. 💔
innsight
innsight
PRO
17 Jun 2023, 07:38 #
Хотела что-то лёгкое посмотреть про 90-е, про школьную любовь. А тут такая трагедия в конце. Ну почему не хэппи-энд? Я слишком стара для тяжелых эмоций.
upst
upst
27 Jun 2023, 16:53 #
kind, but at the same time sad atmosphere of the film, while watching which you remember your school years, first love
🤍
I advise everyone to watch a very tremulous and warm film for sure at least once
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juljuljud
juljuljud
03 Nov 2023, 11:18 #
everyone said they were crying, even my friend's mom was crying, and I thought she wouldn't touch me (at that moment I didn't know the end of the movie and didn't understand why they were crying so much), then I cried like I don't know who at 3 a.m. with a fever, a wonderful movie, watch and don't you 'll regret it
Arianari
Arianari
31 Dec 2023, 19:36 #
It was a great movie, but the end was very upsetting. It's a pity that it ended like this
lucrisse
lucrisse
08 Feb 2024, 01:40 #
I kept thinking, "what could be the reason for such a gap for so many years?" I thought that he had returned and arranged an exhibition to meet her again, but it turned out that way.. such a reason is, of course, "respectful" ⁣⁣⠀
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The ending tore my soul to shreds. ⁣⁣⠀
The main character has been breathing it for more than 15 years, how to live on after this. ⁣⁣⠀
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I didn't expect this from this movie. I wanted to distract myself, but I got even more depressed.
lucrisse
lucrisse
08 Feb 2024, 01:45 #
The movie is good. But. The only question that remained after watching "cause of death?" even though it's a small thing, it turned out to be a feeling of understatement. They could have mentioned the cause of his death in a dialogue with his brother.
tanу
tanу
17 Feb 2024, 15:02 #
A very tragic first love.
The heart was bleeding from the suffering of the poor girl. If she only knew that her lover was dead, she wouldn't hate him so much.And what a wonderful couple they would have turned out to be , we will never know .
budurr
budurr
28 Apr 2024, 21:31 #
A wonderful movie!

But what a sad ending! I didn't expect this at all.
rin4ik
rin4ik
PRO
28 Apr 2024, 21:45 #
I wanted something light, but I spent the evening with wet eyes. It is a very touching and tender film.
chekhovaar
chekhovaar
30 Apr 2024, 23:52 #
Glass 💔 💔 💔
The film reminded me very much of the drama 25/21 💔
imissussimi
imissussimi
PRO
16 May 2024, 04:52 #
Thank you for the tenderness, the thrill of falling in love, the expectation, and the feeling of loss.
alexa_samara
alexa_samara
PRO
30 May 2024, 20:45 #
Probably the only thing I was unhappy with here was the finale. I thought until the last moment that he himself would be at the exhibition.. a grown-up hero. But Koreans love tragedy, sacrifice, and tears...as if we don't have enough of this shit in our lives. At least give me joy in such a wonderful movie... the meaning of life and other sufferings can be studied in classical literature...By God.


I watched the movie a long time ago, probably almost as soon as the voice acting appeared. Now I just remembered because of the Juice...I suffer after the end of the story of Sol and Son Jae, I don't know how to distract myself already...
Mercers
Mercers
PRO
31 May 2024, 13:57 #
Something got scary after honoring your comment 😅
I'm planning to watch the last episode today, isn't there going to be a happy ending after all these swings?!🥹
alexa_samara
alexa_samara
PRO
31 May 2024, 15:29 #
@Mercers: I'm suffering because that drama is over, and I fell in love with her. Watch the latest episode calmly and be sure to write a comment there:-)))
Poison_i
Poison_i
03 Jun 2024, 00:00 #
It was such a sweet movie, but from the moment they said goodbye at the train station until the very end, I cried. It was very touching to show the first love, friendship of both girls and boys.
I agree with everyone - it was necessary to somehow mention why he died.
darynme
darynme
29 Jun 2024, 22:31 #
@Poison_i: I think they clearly made it clear that he died on the way to her. Maybe an accident, maybe something else...
Omiana
Omiana
23 Jun 2024, 20:50 #
The cause of death is not important, what difference does it make what he died for. Clearly it was something sudden and abrupt, otherwise he would have said goodbye himself or left some kind of farewell message.
Maybe it's a good thing that the heroine didn't find out about it then... All these years she waited and missed, but she thought he was alive... In her heart there were memories of a sad first love, but of a worldly plan, she learned the truth already in adulthood, when the sharpness subsided, the soul was tempered by meetings and breakups that inevitably happen to every person. Knowledge then... It could have broken her.
It stung to tears. Life is so fragile... Love and friendship are wonderful... And even if they were given unbearably little time, they remain in the heart and soul forever - with all their joy and pain, the bright sadness of memories and sudden bouts of nostalgia.
This love remained pure, bright and faithful in their eternity. Who knows if she would have stood the test of life...
KratoFear
KratoFear
19 Mar 2025, 18:34 #
@Omiana: Unfortunately, the heroine was shown to us after 20 years of separation alone without a man. She had lived her whole life pining for him.
I was offended by your comment about.. would she have stood the test of life.. She had loved him for 20 years, not knowing where he had gone. It's unconditional love on her part. They would have gone through absolutely any difficulties if they had been together. Perhaps now that she knows the truth, she can build her own destiny. She should be around 38+ by the end of the movie, she'll make it!

The film turned out to be very difficult, which you wouldn't expect, looking at the characters who are young and full of love for almost the entire running time.

The only possible cause of death is something unexpected. ( Was it an accident when he was driving to her place? The authors did not give an answer to this question.
But in the frame, when we are shown her email, it is clear that they communicated by correspondence up to the year of his disappearance. from 99 to 2001.. She wrote her last letters in 2002 and he no longer responds. (Also, when she calls on the phone, she says " He no longer answered", which means that they had been on the phone before.
It's just that after watching it for the first time, I mistakenly thought that he disappeared as soon as he left, but this is absolutely not the case. They talked a lot! And he was about to return to her, but suddenly something terrible happened to him.
The film is a solid 10! Even despite the sad ending.
Omiana
Omiana
19 Mar 2025, 19:23 #
@KratoFear: the fact that we were shown her at the moment alone without a man does not mean that there were no men in her life at all. Unfortunately, the fact that they had great and pure love in their youth, lived through trials together and with honor, does not guarantee that one day this love will suddenly leave and be replaced by a habit, does not guarantee betrayal. As the saying goes, many people marry rabbits and seals, and break up with goats and fools... It's not a fact that this is exactly what would have happened to this particular couple, maybe they really would have lived soul to soul before some kind of diamond wedding, but there is also a possibility that life could have taken a path far from romance...

But I wrote more about something else. That because she had the opportunity to think that he had disappeared, but was alive, she had a chance to arrange her life. But if the story of a tragic and fatal loss had hung over her since her youth, it is not a fact that she would have lived to her age safely. There could be depression, guilt, attempts at self-intoxication, or just pain, which is not mitigated by the thought that, even if not nearby, he is alive and breathing, and maybe happy.
KratoFear
KratoFear
19 Mar 2025, 22:56 #
@Omiana: Maybe she was trying to find men, but in the end she was left alone... In this drama, we were shown the most genuine pure love between two hearts. Specifically, these 2 characters could and should have lived a long, happy life together, and that makes it even more painful to watch the finale. They didn't even have a goodbye kiss, because she was embarrassed.
It was just fate.. (nevertheless, after listening to the dialogue with my brother, I realized for myself that he definitely did not die during a trip to her).

In the shot where she returns home (she lives with her parents), she looks tired of life, sad and withered. It is clear that she is strong and has not given up, but the fire in her has long been extinguished. Casually noticing the package, she immediately perked up as soon as she saw the red end of the same erotic tape that he hadn't returned to her.

Imagine that 20 years later, you will understand in a split second what kind of tape it is just by taking a cursory glance at it. And she lived in a rental store, there are thousands of cassettes, but she remembers the only one among them. She lives such a gray life, thinking that he just betrayed her love.. (we viewers know more than she does, but the heroine has been carrying this burden for many years, which, although it has subsided, has not disappeared anywhere. And she doesn't disappear just because she still loves him).

The actress plays the emotion very beautifully (when she takes the envelope), she involuntarily smiles, with a light kind laugh (As if this fool dared to return the tape to her after 20 years). It's like she forgave him, but it hurts, because she still can't let go. She thinks he's alive, because in a dialogue with her brother, she thanks him that she would have been angry with him all her life if she hadn't found out the truth.
They didn't show us an iota of hesitation, she instantly appears at the exhibition. There is no doubt whether it is necessary to stir up the past. She just wants to see her first and only love and look into his eyes.
KratoFear
KratoFear
19 Mar 2025, 22:57 #
Walking through the exhibition creates happiness in it... There is a screen with an inscription, supposedly stating that this exhibition is on behalf of a man who sincerely loved all these things that he captured in the photo, and she thinks to the last that He is alive, because this is their life on the TV screen-an exhibit in a separate room, this is her brightest moment of happiness illuminating the semi-darkness in the final in a huge hall (there is the same tree with plums, after which their only brief kiss took place. And here comes the moment when she realizes that the same man died 17 years ago ...
Yes, perhaps if she had found out about his death in her 20s, theoretically something very bad could have happened to her, but the authors left this dilemma, which would have been better for her, for the audience.
It's an amazing movie, and I'm thrilled with such an emotional, complicated ending!
darynme
darynme
29 Jun 2024, 22:30 #
I knew what I was getting into. I knew the ending. I knew I was going to cry. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I WOULD CRY FROM THE VERY FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE HERO AT THE JUICE.

It is very hard to realize that some ridiculous accident can destroy people's lives. If he had stayed with her then😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
zohegoogo27
zohegoogo27
PRO
04 Jul 2024, 20:14 #
Wow, I don't play like that! Why do you like such roles? 😭

My first Korean feature film, and I liked it. Hyunjun with his tackles has taken a separate place in my heart😂

— By the way, when we start dating, will you show me how you fart to songs?

I was just blown away from it, constantly giggling with his phrases.

It was an unexpected turn for me that my friend liked Wunho, not Hyunjun, although one could guess the frequent turn in doramas. I was hoping for a happy ending, that she and her friend would date in pairs😶🌫️

La, this moment is from the screenshot.. How beautiful and romanticоо

It reminded me a lot of the drama "Grab Song Jae, and run". There are some parallels between them..
tatiana17
tatiana17
10 Jul 2024, 15:50 #
but she did not know that he was dead and thought that he had abandoned her....
Hania19
Hania19
PRO
15 Sep 2024, 02:08 #
It's a good movie. Special thanks to the calorists, the color scheme in the film is amazing.
As for the ending...of course, I wanted a good ending, but the ending is what it is and I think this is a good ending - not for the characters, no, for the film, if they had made a happy ending, then it would have turned out to be another easy sweet love story, and there are plenty of such stories in the vastness of cinematography. And so it turned out to be a story with meaning, a story that you can think about.....

In general, I definitely put 5 out of 5
TanyaWinchester
TanyaWinchester
05 Oct 2024, 18:34 #
I can't stop crying
dexterkz
dexterkz
13 Dec 2024, 01:30 #
"I can even fart to children's songs" (c)
In a voice just!
dexterkz
dexterkz
13 Dec 2024, 03:08 #
I really liked the movie.
1. Incredibly beautiful and pleasant actors. I really liked the cast. This is the case when every actor causes pleasant sensations.
2. Costumes. This is how healthy and logical actors are dressed. Well, especially, of course, the main character. Just amazing outfits!
3. The plot. It seems to be simple and fairly predictable, but at the same time without any banal scenes. It seems that all the plot twists and turns are predictable, but they are executed very well!
4. Dialogues and jokes. I just fell out of some jokes. The main comedian, of course, is the main character.
5. Locations and filming locations. Some locations are very colorful and bright, eating into the memory.
6. Music. The main melody is just Mega-pleasant and so corresponds to the title of the film. I really liked it.
7. The general atmosphere of the film. It seems to be a sad, sad film in fact, but it leaves such a pleasant and soft feeling.
8. The effect during the viewing and the effect after watching the movie. It was very pleasant and, probably, I will want to review this film in the near future.
dexterkz
dexterkz
13 Dec 2024, 03:13 #
@dexterkz: Well, I can't help but add that I compared the main characters with those roles where I had already seen them.
I saw the girl in the bed of My demon. And I kind of liked her there, but she was a little bit white in places. Here she played so well and looked so organically in this role.
And Sung Woo-seok saw in "Grab Son Jae", of course. And here, as for me, the role is very similar. Yes, and many dramatic moments are similar too. In general, the film is very similar to this drama in many small ways. But even these facts did not cause me any negativity or rejection.

In the end, I wanted to continue and twist with the time machine through the cassette, but then I thought that the ending (albeit sad) satisfied me to some extent. A pleasant aftertaste and a hint of sadness. Yes, and no one forbids you to come up with your own ending in your head
sirena_vi
sirena_vi
17 Dec 2024, 02:22 #
If you don't want to get a heart break, don't watch this movie😭😭😭😭
I'm serious
miniverse
miniverse
10 Jan 2025, 22:08 #
The film is good👍 but it's so insulting for the characters, I thought they would be together 🥺
g1597543
g1597543
06 Feb 2025, 22:22 #
When there was a moment where they were saying goodbye, I thought: "Well, okay, not smart, it's already good. See you later." Who was pulling my tongue?
MysteriousMuffin
MysteriousMuffin
26 Mar 2025, 00:16 #
I want to write a terrible movie! To make such a finale. It would have been better if Un Ho had stayed alive, even if they hadn't been together.

But you can't call a movie terrible just because of the ending. He is very warm, touching and gentle. I didn't expect to experience so many positive emotions
tako_tyan
tako_tyan
29 Mar 2025, 23:05 #
Thank you, I laughed like a horse at first, I had so much fun, and then I sobbed. Well, why so так but I wonder why the guy died 🥺
Bylka_barabylka
Bylka_barabylka
27 Apr 2025, 19:19 #
I really liked it. It took me a long time to decide to watch, and I regretted that I didn't look at it right away. The ending is very sad. I recommend it to everyone.
aliashhka
aliashhka
31 May 2025, 23:34 #
it was good, but not.... It was just incredibly beautiful!

At some point I forgot that I was not watching the 16 episodes, but just a 2-hour movie.

The atmosphere, the cast, and the story itself, God, it was both beautiful and painful.
limpoponia
limpoponia
04 Aug 2025, 16:06 #
It was like watching a film adaptation of feelings after listening to the song "Bahh Tee - 10 years later"😭
gabeat
gabeat
24 Aug 2025, 11:58 #

"Sometimes, to understand how you feel, you need to allow yourself to be vulnerable."

This quote reflects the heroine's inner struggle, her desire to understand her feelings and be honest with herself and others.
virina7991
virina7991
PRO
04 Dec 2025, 03:20 #
Very romantic and touching 🤩❤️ the end of course just destroyed me 😭 I never expected this 🥺💔
nikitiki
nikitiki
27 Feb 23:19 #
I was sad enough that he had to leave. And here it is...
an unexpected ending, I really liked the movie.
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