Melo Movie, tender tale of youth with Choi Woo-shik, Park Bo-young
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Lead cast: Choi Woo-shik, Park Bo-young, Lee Jun-young, Jeon So-nee
Whether to see our dreams reflected back at us or to forget about our nightmares, movies are always there for us. Cinema has the power to move, inspire and shield us. It's not for nothing that it's often called an escape.
Netflix's latest Korean offering takes this idea of cinema as escapism and applies it to a group of young Korean adults. Their dreams are subsumed into their daily and professional lives, giving them fuel to fire their passions and a way to mask complicated feelings that never truly go away.
Melo Movie is the second series from the young writer Lee Na-eun, who debuted to some fanfare in the winter of 2021 with the fresh and tender youth romance Our Beloved Summer , with Choi Woo-shik and Kim Da-mi.
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