ReviewBusan 2024 movie review – Hear Me: Our Summer is both problematic and preposterous
The film’s demeaning portrayal of the deaf community and a final reveal that is insulting in its sheer stupidity make this one to miss
2/5 stars
Rising Korean stars Hong Kyung and Roh Yoon-seo are gifted a romantic vehicle seemingly tailor-made for their inimitable charms in Hear Me: Our Summer.
A beat-for-beat remake of the 2009 Taiwanese film Hear Me, which starred Eddie Peng Yu-yan and Ivy Chen Yi-han, this new South Korean interpretation similarly follows the courtship of a young couple predominantly through the use of sign language.
The film’s depiction of the deaf community and how they interact with the world around them proves deeply problematic, however, while a last-minute twist designed to melt audience hearts proves so preposterous as to render almost everything that has come before it utterly redundant.