Kim Sun Yi (Park Bo Young), an elderly woman in her sixties living in the US, receives a phone call about the sale of her old family home back in South Korea. Returning to her homeland, she's met by granddaughter Eun Joo, and they drive to the house in the country and stay the night. Sun Yi recalls how 47 years ago when she was a teenage girl in 1965, she moved from Seoul along with her widowed mother and sister Sun Ja to a remote valley to undergo a period of convalescence after suffering problems with her lungs. The Kims lived in genteel poverty at the mercy of their arrogant and foppish landlord, Ji Tae (Yoo Yeon Seok), son of the business partner of Sun Yi's late father. Because of her delicate health, the beautiful yet introverted Sun Yi lives an isolated life in the country home, without any friends her age.
One night, Sun Yi glimpses a shadow in the outhouse; the next day, she discovers a feral boy of about 19 crouching in their yard. The boy's body temperature is 46 degrees Celsius, his blood type unidentifiable, and he can neither read nor speak. Even though he behaves like a wild beast, Sun Yi's kindhearted mother adopts him and names him Chul Soo (Song Joong Ki), assuming he's one of more than 60,000 children orphaned in the Korean War.
At first Sun Yi considers him a nuisance, but eventually has fun taming him according to a dog-training manual. She teaches him how to wait patiently before a meal, how to wear clothes, how to speak, how to write and other human behavior so that he could one day live like a normal man. Chul Soo demonstrates unswerving loyalty and superhuman brawn, thus inspiring the envy of Ji Tae, who lusts after Sun Yi.
As Sun Yi attempts to "civilize" the beast, the two eventually become very close. Sun Yi opens her heart to Chul Soo, and he in turn falls in love with her, the only person to ever show him affection. But their relationship is fraught with difficulties, as Ji Tae begins to cause trouble. Feeling threatened, Chul Soo lets loose his bestial instincts, and in their fear the town villagers turn on him. In order to save the life of the boy who risked his life to be by her side, Sun Yi leaves him with a promise: "Wait for me. I’ll come back for you".
Returning to present day, Sun Yi decides to stay the night. In the middle of the night she walks into the shed to find Chul Soo sitting there, still as young as he was 47 years ago. He hands her the note that she wrote. She realizes that he's been there waiting all along. He reads her the book that she asked him to when he can speak, as she sleeps. The next day she wakes up with Chul Soo nowhere in sight. She leaves with her granddaughter. In the car they receive a call from the county asking about the property. Sun Yi tells him that she's not selling the place and hangs up. Chul Soo stares from afar as the car drives away.
A sequence in the ending credits shows Chul Soo building a snowman.
I wanted to watch this for quite a long time, and after 5 years it was released, I'm watching this finally!
It's Song Joong Ki and Park Bo Young! These two are one of my favourite actor and actress! Song Joong Ki is one of my all-time favourite actors, back to his film 5 years ago, it was so fresh to saw younger Song Joong Ki! Park Bo Young is always a cute and sweet girl for me, I really love her in the recent drama "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon", and I was really happy to saw her collabs with Song Joong Ki in this film. Yoo Yeon Seok played a bad role in this film, and his acting was really good! My first impression towards him was from the drama "Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim", he played a good looking, intelligent and talented doctor.
I would seriously give a round of applause for Song Joong Ki, even though he had not many lines in this film, but his acting skills, body languages and all those noises as a werewolf were superb! He really nailed all the characteristics as a werewolf!
From terrifying to cute, from cute to sad and from sad to touched, this film didn't have a single scene that makes me feel bored, the story line was so good and beautiful!
"잘 했다 (Good Job)" and "기다려 (Wait)" were my favourite lines!
I cried and sobbed so bad in the last part of the film, where Sun Yi told Chul Soo to go and Chul Soo said "가지마 (Don't Go)" to Sun Yi, he finally learnt to speak, just wanted to be by her side. And the part where they finally met after 47 years, Chul Soo still sitting in the shed waiting for Sun Yi. The moment I thought Song Joong Ki has only one line but when he started to speak, told Sun Yi that she still looks as pretty as she was young and started to read which the story he promised to read to her after he learnt how to speak, I cried real real bad. I feel so sad for Chul Soo in the sequence, building snowman all alone. He'll need to be all by himself for the rest of his life.
I've watched a similar drama about a boy raised by wolves who fell in love with a girl that he met in the jungle, and after watching this, for me, wolves are loyal and faithful, they are animal that mate for life, they will only have one partner for their rest of lives.
Totally 8.5/10 for this, it seriously was a highly recommended film!
"Love was the first human language he'd ever learned."
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밤새도록 창밖에 해님이 뜨길 기다려요
아침이 오면 그 사람 만날 수 있으니까요
고마워요 내 손 잡아줘서 고마워요 내 눈 바라봐서
고마워요 내가 그리던 왕자님 이렇게 내 앞에 나타나줘서
하루 종일 하늘에 달님이 뜨길 기다려
한밤이 오면 당신과 이야기할 수 있으니까요
잊지마요 우리의 약속을 잊지마요 우리의 비밀들을
잊지마요 내가 당신의 눈빛에 얼마나 가슴이 뛰었었는지
All night, I wait for the sun to rise out the window
Because when morning comes, I can meet that person
Thank you for holding my hand, thank you for looking into my eyes
Thank you, my prince that I’ve dreamed of, for appearing before me
All day, I wait for the moon to rise in the sky
Because when night comes, I can talk to you
Don’t forget our promise, don’t forget our secrets
Don’t forget how my heart raced when you looked at me
#AWerewolfBoy
#SongJoongKi
#PLSY
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