A quiet Korean film centering on a grandmother navigating the confusing and new (for her) worlds of teenage crimes and apathy, Alzheimer's disease, and poetry, Poetry both sticks to its promises and also leads you to places you didn't imagine the seemingly simple film would lead you.
All seen through the eyes of an older woman who is experiencing and dealing with the many changes in her calm life, this movie explores humanity and poetry in such an honest, raw, and yet unobtrusive way that it seems more like a gentle push towards consideration of its topics than a manifesto.
Korean culture is very much present, yet portrayed in such a universally comprehensible way that even the more culturally naive among us can grasp the concepts and realities.
A beautiful meditation on how poetry relates to life, this movie does more for the literary form than most MFA programs would ever hope. Weaving poetry in and out of everyday life and much larger struggles, this Poetry succeeds in its titular promises and then some.
If you're looking for something quiet and meditative, moving and meandering (and you're tired of all the French movies I shove down your throat), please see this movie. It's simply beautiful.
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