It's about a doomed 30 something couple-- A loose, two-faced divorcee and a sheepish, wincing grandma's boy who lives at home-- whose spring romance centers a lot around um, eating ramyeon, and whose turn it is to make it (which I was eating as I watched it).
This early, idyllic eating ramyeon scene, foreshadows how untrustworthy and unfit for marriage the girlfriend character is:
Oh, Snap!
Next: "April Snow" , the most famous thing ever to happen to my town (bus loads of sexually charged Japanese women make a pilgrimage to Samcheok every spring because of it). Every single building it was filmed in bears a commemorative "April Snow" plaque and film poster. At the local hospital, the first thing you see in the funeral wing is a floor to ceiling banner bearing the male lead's coy mug. I've seen Bae Yong Joon's oversized bespectacled face more this year than my own mother's, so I might as well watch this movie once.
Stay tuned.
3 comments:
I recently watched "One Fine Spring Day" too. I think it is a great film showing love coming and going inexplicably. No plot, just a series of snapshots along a sometimes happy, but eventually sad road (eating ramon all the way). I kept wondering why Koreans make all these incredibly sad movies. And with this one you know it's never gonna turn around and get happy. Still, I remained glued to it. Jin-ho Hur is a talented film maker, I think.
i think it's alright... i couldn't help but find the characters annoying; the bossy controlling girl who acts cutesy to get what she wants... the passive shy sweet mama's boy.. unfortunately i know too many Korean people who act according to these stereotypes.
i think i am hypercritical of the cheese factor in Korean movies... you should see the dramas on tv. they love extended weeping scenes. 'cheesy' doesn't even translate.. it's impossible to try and explain it too. but it was a really good depiction of normal Korean life, especially the scenes of the guy and his family at home.
I just finished watching "April Snow" and didn't like it at all. Same filming techniques but this one seemed contrived and boring. I actually liked the characters in "One Fine Spring Day" ... as they were in the film for telling that story ... but the couple in "April Snow" seem empty. Oh well.
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