The sad thing about this movie is how society views someone like the security guard as being a failure in life when in reality they could be a genius. There has been so much talent that was wasted because people grow up in a bad time period or in a bad place. I was never into math but this movie made me really sad . People are too judgmental . Don’t ever judge someone . You never know what they went through .

Wow. The only Movie Recap video that has ever made me cry is about math--- and I'm not even angry about it.

"Math is all about the process of finding a solution" this mirrors what my most influential math teacher told me. I still failed his class, but now as a math teacher (formerly) myself, it's one of the most important things to understand about math. you're given tools, abstract concepts, and parameters - there are many answers, there are few solutions.

_I hated math. But after I watched the movie, I wanted to learn math. So I opened my old mathematic book and see where did I do wrong._ _After a few hours, I realized that I still hate math._

We've seen a janitor with crazy math skills, now a security guard. Now all we're waitin for is a math teacher to have hidden skills in math.

9:01 This is an error. Bo-Ram doesn't storm out because of frustration or pressure; she storms out because the questions on the "practice tests" her "tutor" gave her were the exact same questions on the Pythagoras test. That is why Bo-Ram was able to leak the Pythagoras test. EDIT: The title of the movie is In Our Prime

I was not good at math 🥺 until at 37 I met a high school professor who looked at all of us students with his big blue eyes like we are all very smart! His positive attitude made me believe in my ability to be good at math!🤓 That was a miracle!🥺❤️ To explain, I moved to Canada and enrolled in Grade 11 College Math as an adult. I had high school diploma from backhome, Serbia, but wanted to refresh my math before I study business at college. I got 93% grade in Grade 11 and 95%, I think, in Grade 12, but later I decided to study journalism. Getting good at math is one of my proudest moments.🎉 It may sound weird, but I consider math to be my friend that will never betray me, it gave me back everything I invested in it.❤🥺🤗

I was in University and studied math (hated it) and I found out that two security guards were very passionately arguing about crazy complicated math problems every day. I didn't become their student as I already decided to quit it anyways and they didn't get any career in the end - they knew only Russian and were quite unapproachable as characters. But yes, lots of real stories like that.

My grandpa was a mathematician, he loved math, and logic games (like sudoku) he even made some for me and my sister. Oddly enough, he once visited the USSR back in the 70's with his family (wich was not only a serious crime, being a communist or a socialist was literally illegal at the time in my country, but you would be immediately deported back home to be arrested if discovered. Don't ask me why they thought commiting a serious political crime with kids in tow was a good idea) I miss him a lot, every time I see a movie about math or mathematicians I think about him.

He may lost his son but found a new one even they’re not blood related. How touching! I never knew Id love a story about Math because its my worst subject when I was a student.

As I learned math in Korea, I feel that the focus in math is just getting the questions right and I think this movie points out the issue well. I enjoyed watching it and it'll be one of the best movies I've watched.

Your movies recaps are really good. It seems like you covered the entire movie in a shorter time. Usually, I only like to watch the original videos, but I don't feel I am lacking anything just watching these movie recaps. Well done!

I really love this kind of a story because it proves how shortminded people can be and easily judge people in the most unfair ways as if being perfect and not capable commiting mistakes themsellves

His love for math is just like mine but the difference is that i suck at it

I cans ay that it represent very much the mental state of mathematicians, and I mean by this searchers in mathematics. I'm currently a student researcher in theoretical physics, and I can say that the approach given in the film to the maths (trying to do things by hand even when it's not that efficient just for the understanding, the beauty of mathematics, the way to see problems in its generality and not some solver, to do maths for maths and not for scores) is very valuable. The examples are good, as the trigonometry has a lot of formulas while in fact you just need to visualize it as the trigo.ometric cercle and from that recover all the formulas and more, you can modulate with more complex cases. (As an exemple there is a general theorem of pythagore wich is the Kachi theorem for all triangle types, or the law of cosinus, easier to retreave it)

It's really sad how much that security guard's intelligence was used for weapons, shows how people will do anything like take advantage of someone in order to gain superiority over others. Either way, this recap was an excellent story about how much intelligence can take over someone's life.

"self-pity isn't a badge to carry because it gets you fixated on tragedy" 👈🏼 LOVE THIS!!!

Choi Min-sik (Hak-sung) is one of THE greatest actors of our time and maybe ever. His performances in Oldboy, Shiri, I Saw the Devil, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Taegukgi were mind blowing. I mean there are a lot of pompous actors out there who think they’re doing the same but what Choi does is art. He is a once in a lifetime talent that deserves more recognition internationally.

Nothing is more invaluable than a loving parent relationship and a good teacher student relationship. Sad how some people get neither

Love this recap. Concise and to the point. I added the series to my watchlist and will start it today.

My father is a math proffesor and he used to make me solve or "re-invent" the fomular that were teached in school so I can understand how the formular came to be. Now I'm a programmer, and the solution finding mentality is much more important because in real world you don't have answer sheet to learn from. You have to break down problem and then get the answer for each piece. Also thanks to my job I start to realize how math is used in real life, which is a question for most people when they study math at school (including me).

Don't want to be utterly soapy here, but: My wife's a olympic grade mathematician. And I can relate to people who get all teary when math is presented in its pure form and idealistic ways. That recap took me back to all the lectures I got from her. Math's the basis of this world, not 'just' numbers.

Found this video unintentionally. It reminded me of my late father who loves math while me on the contrary find it the source of my migraine😅 He once told me that the answers are sometimes hidden in the question itself, I just need to understand the question. He can solve math problems even when he was already partially blind just to help me prepare with my CSC exam for me to be fit to work for the government. This movie clip made me miss him so much.

Without your recap, I would've missed out this wonderful movie...thank you 🙏

i don't even watch movies anymore, just movie recaps on youtube.

I used to love math, then at 13, I was shot in the head on the left side, which made it hard for me to learn. I wish I could have had a teacher that challenged me though. Instead, they put me in remedial classes, and immediately put an end to my passion for learning. Years later I finally realized that it wasn't school that really taught me anything, just my desire to attain knowledge was what helped, though I wish I had known that when I was in school. Maybe I would have been able to go to college... Don't let teacher's tell you how smart you are! Don't let tests give you a reason to stop learning! Knowledge is what makes a person truly wealthy, and regardless if you are born rich or poor, knowledge can make you powerful and wealthy beyond measure! Only you can decide how smart you want to be! Only YOU!

I'm naturally good with calculations but not very accurately, I met the Best Home teacher who made me understand maths like it was real life, I fell in love with maths like never before, soon after I even joined in a math competition in my locals and our school was fourth at the end, I literally started understanding maths even without been taught just by observational analysis and practice... I Lost this Math Teacher about 2 yrs ago after I entered college, this is the biggest hole in my Heart cuz he was really special and unique, I literally ran home everyday just for his lessons.. RIP Mr Abbey... The best Math Tutor I Know

No over the top drama just pure storytelling. What a beautyful movie it teaches lot's of lessons about life and societies.

Hak-Sung is like those old masters in martial arts movies who look like nobodies at first glance, but he is instead a math expert.

Things like this happen in real life. Back in the 1960s, when our high school Latin teacher was absent due to sickness, who should show up in coat and tie as a substitute teacher but the school custodian. Turned out that he was an East German refugee who had been a professor of classics before emigrating to America. As an immigrant from a Communist country, his job opportunities were extremely limited. I think all of us in the class were stunned and in awe. He was so learned and such a great teacher. We had no idea. And it seemed a tragedy that his marvelous knowledge and skills were not put to better use than mopping floors.

I fully agree with the idea that experience beats intelligence. Hard work and perseverance beats intelligence. I also agree that you need a great mentor to be of any person of value in life.

I really dont know if the Riemann hypothesis is already been solved or not. but maybe a lot of work on it is being refereed by now. I hope few would successfully prove it successfully and separately.

One of the smartest people I know was a house painter for 12 years. One day he suddenly decided to apply to university, got in on a scholarship, and eventually graduated at the top of his law class. People make interesting choices.

A Math teacher intern here. I realized a lot while watching this. Many students will ask why they should learn this and that in Math when they can always use technology to solve it. But this movie taught me that it is the practice that's important. It's not the correct answer we're looking for. We rather familiarize ourselves with the concepts and the process so that we can learn to think mathematically. All the Math teachers I know believes this, and so do I. But never had I really understood it before. I still don't understand it now, but I can vaguely feel that I'm now a few steps closer. Also, when the teacher criticized the protagonist's answer for getting the right answer but the "wrong" process, I was really confused. Does this really happen??? As I've observed, teachers become really happy when they see a student doing their own computations. At least, that's how my Math teachers felt whenever I used my own way to solve during high school. But now that I think of it, even if it doesn't really happen around me. There's still a subtle resemblance to what's actually happening, which is also contradictory to the belief that, nowadays, we only teach students Math for the sake of improving their logical and critical thinking skills, or in some cases, we teach Math only for the fun of it. I also graduated high school while thinking that Math is the only stress-free subject because solving Math problems were very similar to solving puzzles. The rules are repeating but the process is ever-changing. But as I said, now, however, probably because we only teach Math an hour a week due to pandemic, teaching a uniform process became more prominent instead of letting the students explore different perspectives. It's very saddening. Specially that emerging career opportunities nowadays will require Math skills to master. Thank you for sharing this to us!

Thank you Dr. Kuhn. You are still the greatest math teacher ever.

Loved it! I sat captivated till the last words. Great movie, gret movie recap

There aren't many movie recaps where I regret not watching the actual movie. But this is definitely one of them

Hak-Sung's story is extremely tragic, he lost literally everything he cared for, except for his love for math.

I have always had a special affinity with math which I regrettably didnt develop further after high school. But when I was blazing through all mathematical problems I realized the school teaches you one solution, but there is almost always 3 different solutions to every given problem, and from those rise variations in length or order. I had a knack of finding different solutions quickly as I was not very good at listening to instructions. When they solve for something, I always have another way.

I had a friend who used to get pains all over her body whenever she did math. She finally went to one of those Naturopathic doctors. He told my friend she was suffering from "Fibromyalgebra."

I can relate to this poor boy! I was also top of my class in primary school, so I chose to go to the most prestigious highschool in my country. It was so hard at the beginning, I went from being the top student to just one of the middle ones. After some time I got used to it though, I don't feel so bad anymore and I'm still pround of me for getting here.

I love the concept of the film, to be good at math you have to go beyond memorization to actually being able to solve the problem. A lot of schools teach regurgitation in the sense of taking a problem and simply memorizing the steps needed to solve the problem without truly understanding the steps, it is why when you change a variation of the problem the student struggles.

Stuff like that happens all of the time, but we rarely ever hear about it. Years ago there was a janitor working at the United States Air Force Academy who was a Medal of Honor winner, but no one at the school knew about it. If anyone wants to read about it, here is the title of the story that they can google to read about it. "When Cadets At The US Air Force Academy Realized Their Janitor Was Medal Of Honor War Hero"

I really loved this kind of stories. Thanks for sharing this amazing story. I like it.

I used to love learning math with my friends and helping them whenever I can. I always challenge myself when I'm with it. When I suck at it, I do what I can to know how it's actually solved but before that I usually have fun and try out different solutions and trying to understand why. But all of these was broken the moment covid hit and the passion I had was gone. The teacher broke my spirit the moment he called me stupid for asking him how to answer it correctly when I made a mistake. It was humiliating coz he said that during online class with the other students. I was bummed the entire year with him being our teacher.

my man you are the best,.., keep doing what you're doing brother, . , you makes impact. love brother

Once you really understand the concept and application of math, you'll like it. I'm a student of a special science high school of my country (we study extra math and science and we are specialized in Research). I was once one of the worst math student of my batch. The school even called my mother and gave me a warning for expulsion since my grade was low (my grade is actually high for a normal high school). That was my first year then I had 8 session tutoring, found the concept and I entered 9th grade with people recognizing me as the underrated student in the math department since that was also the time when I started getting 1st places on fast challenges. I wasn't best, but yeah, I improved a lot and I actually competed for my section in a math challenge. I believe that math isn't all about formula, it is all about concept because even if you only know the formula and you don't know the concept, you won't know when to use it

I had a very similar story. I never enjoyed math and was never particularly good at it, but a few mentors trained me to become great at solving problems and thinking outside the box through preparation for the Putnam Competition.

I love the attention to detail: the Riemann hypothesis indeed remains perhaps the most infamously hard unsolved problem of mathematics today. It discusses the distribution of prime numbers, which is indeed important in the context of e.g. RSA encryption

THANK YOU FOR THIS RECAP. I cried. I was nervous when all unfortunates happen during the climax. Phew. Thank goodness it has good ending.

You ARE. Really good at summarizing movies. I tear up too.

8:14 is what teachers are wrong tho. This is not just a movie thing. It actually happens. it also boosts ego of "good" students who studied the "proper" techniques. Point is, there is no proper techniques, yes there are universal solutions for some questions. But you don't HAVE to use it to get correct result. When you're in university, you'd be mind blown how even presicion techniques are good if result is correct, and it saves you from exact calculation methods that could take couple of minutes if not hours.

I wish I had a math mentor as great as the dr

This YT channel is great for people who want to see movies, but don't have the time, patience or motivation to sit through it. Personally, my mental state after viewing a recap episode is almost the same feeling as if I watched the entire movie. I go through the same emotions as if I sat through the entire movie. However, it's like seeing the most important parts of the movie, but not feeling that I missed out on anything worth seeing. Afterwards, I feel the same kind of sensation as if I watched the entire movie and my brain feels like I sat through the whole movie. It's almost like drinking concentrated orange juice without any water added in. You taste the intense fruit flavor without the excess water or added sugar.

I love 💘 💘 this recaps as they teach us to respect and love other people

Thanks for the movie recap, a great example of how similar stories can be reinvented to become new again. Finding Forrester (2000) starring Sean Connery is an almost identical structure, only using English and fiction writing in the place of the Math used in this story. Both are valid, both well-told stories.

For someone who thinks maths is hard to understand and wants to run away from it but still at the same time, finds it interesting because it's hard to understand and some part of her still is wanting to understand and learn it not because she doesn't understands it and wants to hate it for a trivial matter like that but because even though she doesn't understand it well compared to others but because she still finds it amazing and loves it and wants to become better at it- for a girl like her, this movie opened and widened my perspective and opened my brain and eyes I'm so grateful that i saw it and Thankyou so much to bring this movie on your channel ♡♡♡

What a moving, marvelous , totally engrossing movie! Terrific plot...deeply moving relationships. Well done!

This movie recap is emotional and educating. 👍🏻👍🏻

Didn't expect a movie about math to hit me so hard honestly, but I've always struggled with the subject in school when I was a kid and after hearing (albeit and actor in a movie) someone say it's about understanding math, not just solving it, it all just kinda clicked for me.

This story is a mixture of "Scent of a Woman" (1992, poor student problems, final saving speech), "The Karate Kid" (2010, helping janitor) and "Finding Forrester" (2000, hiding genius, final saving speech)

What a great story! Touched my heart.

its funny when bo-ram lifted the bag. hahahah this is a really good movie that encourage me to do well and have a better comprehend about my master research. i dont have time to watch the whole movie, thanks movie recaps for this summary video. i really love it !!

I want this teacher!! I always had trouble learn math by memorizing formulas, but was great once I comprehended the methods. Hardly any of my teachers taught that though...

Great movie/storytelling. Reminded me of my math professor in college. Growing up he hated math and was terrible at it. So he decided to conquer his failure by mastering it. He said it was the best thing he could've done bc it made him turn his hatred of math into appreciation. Also it allowed him to better help students who struggled with the subject. He was a great teacher and a wonderful person ❤

This was a really heartwarming recap

This was such a wonderful and heart-warming story. 😢🥺❤️❤️

As an Asian, seeing movies these past few decades that criticize and aims to break conservative traditions puts a smile on my face. While in the Hollywood and Disney, they have "The Great Wall" (2016) with Matt Damon, and "Mulan" (2020).

I once knew a man who worked as a parking lot attendant at a major hospital in LA. He would sit in the booth with pencil and paper. During his annual two week vacation, he would present his latest paper at a scientific convention of logicians. He was working math problems on paper in his work booth.

Wow-aTOTAL recap!! Thanks!

I have a neighbor who is gardener for a living but plays piano like any known professional musician, it turns out he tried to get a scholarship but failed and then he got depressed. At first you would think he is just an alcoholic gardener but every night when he is at home around 9pm, he often play several song that made the neighborhood sleep like a baby, he died few years ago but his music will remain in my head

This is such a gripping story. and what connects everything is math. freaking crazy

There was a similar movie in English called "Finding Forester" with Sean Connery playing the role of the recluse. In this case it was for writing and language skills rather than math but if folks liked this movie they'd probably like Finding Forester too.

saw this movie yesterday, i never thought a movie about math could make me cry.

The ending always Peaceful but I don't know when our eyes are full of tears😭

Incredible movie selection! I nearly cried with joy.

For anyone wondering, the name of the movie is 'In Our Prime'

Thanks for making us aware of this movie. I didn't watch this recap; I hope I can find the movie to watch for myself.

The fact he escaped North Korea in the first place is shocking enough. Then again, he isn't called a genius for nothing

These Korean movie recaps always leave me in tears of joy 🥲

*This just makes me even more sad. The fact that, there are probably genius people like Hak-Sung in North Korea irl, but couldn't make use of their abilities because they're stuck in that awful country. :(*

This is the first time watching a recap makes me want to watch the whole movie. Thanks!

Beautifulㅠㅠ

I don’t like math but this story touches my heart. Love it

First time I've ever cried over a recap video. Well done Movie Recaps, well done!!

I just seen the whole recap, now I want to watch the movie thoroughly

i was neve good in maths until i met one maths teacher who changed my life in high school. since then, i have always loved maths and logical reasoning. not only loving but i am good at it also. sometimes life brings angels to your way. i have missed him a lot 🕊🕊🕊

Fantastic review of a maths movie. Best I have ever seen. I have not seen the movie yet this review is a great Intro. So well done and lengthy and full of detail. I can only imagine how long the movie goes on for. Having studied some maths at Uni before changing life directions, I may return to it one day and always love it when film producers can take most ppls pet hate (ie. maths) and instead, show its beauty.

I didn't see the movie but this recap was great. Loved the twists and turns. Kept me watching because of the suspense even though I normally wouldn't be interested in math.

I like your channel but please put the titles and released dates in the descriptions, thanks and more power..

This is a wonderful video...I enjoyed watching it and it will be a best movie... thanks for sharing us.

One of my friend is Math geek he always tell me about pure maths and fascinating it is he always say that math is out of this world and everything is the universe is based on maths thou I never understand what he feels but its nice to see how passionate he is about this subject.

What a story man! What a naration! Kuddos to you ❤️

😭This was such an amazing story!❤️💕❤️❤️💕❤️

Amazing recap

Tragic story with a good ending... My heart is melting.

There are many hidden math geniuses in this world and they could be your shop assistants, factory workers, bus drivers, librarians, secretaries, etc.

Really joyful story... we have a saying in England... "The truth will out", meaning that lies and deceit cannot conceal the strength of truth.

this is too good man....I LOVE SUCH PLOTS

The recap is so beautiful. The narrator deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize.