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나목 (1992)

나목 poster
Country
South Korea

How it feels

A young woman named Lee Kyung loses two older brothers and her father in the Korean War. She supports her mentally unwell mother by painting portraits at a US Army PX, and becomes torn between a local electrician who loves her and a displaced painter who struggles with his own family ties.

melancholicslow-burntendernostalgicemotionally heavysubduedbittersweetquietly devastating

What happens

《나목》은 MBC에서 1992년 6월 24일부터 1992년 6월 24일까지 방영된 6.25 특집 드라마이다. 스물한 살 이경은 전쟁으로 두 오빠와 아버지를 잃고 정신이 온전하지 못한 어머니를 모시고 생계를 위해 미군 PX에서 초상화부 일을 한다. 이경은 자신을 좋아하는 전기수리공 태수보다 최 사장이 데려온 월남한 화가 옥희도에게 마음이 더 끌린다. 옥희도는 가족 때문에 갈등하면서도 이경을 사랑하게 된다. 전쟁이 끝나고 태수와 결혼한 이경은 옥희도의 유작전에서 ‘나목’을 본다. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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