A warm, devastating family drama that earns its tears through lived-in detail, cultural specificity, and a carefully calibrated emotional payoff. It balances humor, obligation, greed, and tenderness in a way that makes the central relationship feel painfully real.
A warm, devastating family drama that earns its tears through lived-in detail, cultural specificity, and a carefully calibrated emotional payoff. It balances humor, obligation, greed, and tenderness in a way that makes the central relationship feel painfully real.
Best for
Viewers who like intimate family dramas
Audiences looking for a heartfelt tearjerker
Fans of stories about caregiving, inheritance, and intergenerational tension
People who appreciate naturalistic performances and everyday domestic detail
Skip if
You want a fast-paced plot or high-concept premise
You prefer emotionally distant or minimalist dramas
You are looking for light comfort viewing without grief or illness themes
Inheritance/family obligation stories are a turnoff
Overview
This is a deceptively simple premise with a lot of emotional precision underneath it. What starts as a selfish plan slowly turns into something more complicated, as the film watches a grandson and grandmother learn each other in the shadow of illness, money, and family expectations. The result is funny in small, sharp bursts and then suddenly crushing when it needs to be.
Worth noting
The film’s strength is how ordinary it feels. It understands the rhythms of caregiving, the awkwardness of family visits, and the way love can coexist with resentment or opportunism. That realism gives the bigger emotional turns real weight, and the grandmother is written and performed with a presence that makes every scene around her feel alive.
Bottom line
It is also a very effective crowd-pleaser in the best sense: accessible, moving, and grounded without becoming manipulative. If you are open to a tearjerker, this one lands hard because it keeps finding humanity inside the messiest motives.
Top Letterboxd reviews
areyouayu (5★) · 15604 likes
THE WAY M DIDNT SPREAD THE FLOWER PROPERLY AT THE END BC HE WANTS TO GET HAUNTED BY HER
Farras❀ (5★) · 7406 likes
"sure, sons get assets, daughters get cancer" THE WAY SHE GAGGED HER????😭😭😭😭
Bara Prima (4.5★) · 6287 likes
-Ranked #3 in Letterboxd's Highest Rated Overall Films of 2024- "Amah, You're my first place." There's a scene where Amah is in pain while babbling at night. She then asks her deceased parents to pick her up. (as if asking to die asap)This scene deeply moved me because I can't even imagine that when we grow old, even after having grandchildren and facing illness etc., we might still long for our parents' love and their presence around us. 😭😭😭
jo (4.5★) · 5420 likes
when you realised your grandma is just a girl; and so is your mum 😭
chefff (5★) · 5132 likes
more like how to kill yourself in 126 minutes
Themes
family obligation, caregiving, inheritance, intergenerational relationships, illness and mortality, emotional reconciliation, greed and guilt, domestic realism