This whole movie is very satisfying and fulfilling to watch. It is an extraordinarily simple story with simple depiction of a life of a young girl belongs from a rural countryside. With much dreams and aspirations she came to Seoul but life gradually started to become mundane and monotonous. One day she decided to go for an excursion to her birthplace and found out she was actually getting fascinated towards the simple living.

There wasn’t anything much to do rather than farming, cooking, eating and sleeping. She tried to remember her mother’s cooking and tried those recipes and ate wholeheartedly.

Little Forest actually portrays the backward linkage of interdependence, which means not necessarily city life can only provide or satisfy to meet one’s end and not necessarily fast living is the only way to satisfy ambitions. However, ordinary, slow paced living can also be satisfying in the countryside. It is alright to live just by sleeping, eating and doing simple jobs. Not everyone in the world has to be shackled within corporate lives or unhealthy competition mostly city life has to offer. Living in the tranquil nature and having only what the nature has to offer can also be more than sufficient as well as sustainable rather when people eventually get detached from their root from their birthplace they start to lose their identity, individualism and most importantly simplicity.

The film was set in four different seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer and Autumn. Every season’s characteristics were nicely captured. Seasonal fruits and vegetables were also highlighted more or less since the protagonist had to prepare her food based on different seasons. The sounds of nature were also carefully incorporated such as the sound of cricket, rustling sound of paddy field due to breeze touching them and so on. The surrounding scenery were also picturesque enough to create pleasant mood in the viewers’ mind.

Moreover, friendship among the two childhood friends with the protagonist also played a significant part in the movie. Their joviality, warmth and mischievousness were pretty interesting to watch.

Kim Tae Ri, Jin Ki Joo and Ryu Joon Yeol played their role exactly what is necessary without any exaggeration. It felt like they naturally and smoothly blended themselves along with the story, rather than acting they were playing their own lives. Very well enacted.

Overall Little Forest creates rejuvenating and soothing effect. No swashbuckler just an aberration for finding solace among myriad of intricate problems is what a girl rediscovered for herself integrated with nature, food and farming is the main theme of this film.

If you want to feel calm and relaxed by watching something light-hearted yet satisfying then give this movie a shot.