“Do you know what the flower language of forget-me-nots is? It means ‘don’ t forget me.’”

The late Kim Sae-ron’s lines in the movie ‘Guitar Man’ seemed like his last words to the public.Despite the disappointing completion and awkward story development, the acting of ‘acting genius’ Kim Sae-ron in the movie ‘Guitar Man’ was brilliant.

Kim Sae-ron’s posthumous work ‘Guitar Man’, which will be released on the 30th, was ‘first revealed’ through a press and distribution preview at Lotte Cinema World Tower in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 21st.’Guitar Man’, which finished filming in November of last year, about 3 months before Kim Sae-ron passed away, is a music film that depicts the process in which a genius guitarist Ki-cheol(Lee Sun-jung)who lives a difficult life meets the members of the band Volcano and heals his wounds.

Kim Sae-ron plays the role of Eugene, the keyboardist of Volcano.Eugene’s bright appearance in the movie, who never loses her smile despite her tough life and cheers on Ki-cheol, who has a bigger wound than her, ‘overlaps’ with Kim Sae-ron’s real-life situation during filming, when she had to stop her activities due to a drunk driving accident and even failed to make a comeback in theater, which made people feel sorry.

Some of the lines of Eugene, played by the deceased, touched the hearts of the audience even more deeply when combined with the unfortunate death of Kim Sae-ron.For example, the line where he calmly says to the dispirited Ki-cheol, “Life is not easy.Sometimes I want to let go of everything, but it’s not easy.Whenever that happens, I think of my mom and dad.”

In particular, the scene where Eugene puts forget-me-not flowers in a water bottle before the unexpected tragic ending and reminds the audience of the flower language of forget-me-nots, “Don’t forget me,” is considered the scene that breaks the hearts of the audience the most.The film company said that not only this line, but also Eugene’s tragic ending in the film was “originally decided” before Kim Sae-ron’s bad news.

Separate from her tragic personal history, Kim Sae-ron’s acting shines throughout the running time, but the perfection of ‘Guitar Man’ that contains Kim Sae-ron’s acting makes me sigh.The narrative of the main character Ki-chul, who drives the play, is infinitely weak, and the acting of all the actors ‘except Kim Sae-ron’, including Lee Sun-jung who played the main character Ki-chul, could not shake off the awkward feeling.The lines that continuously belittle idol music in order to emphasize the excellence of band music also make me frown.


Reporter Seungmi smlee@donga.com

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