the wonderful pair of lim soojung (im a cyborg, tale of two sisters)
and gongyoo (coffee prince, one fine day)
made this film the perfect perfect choice last night when i really didnt
want to watch anything hard going.
it would be quite hard to describe their humour and chemistry and do
it any justice, but basically they made this movie so easy to watch that
i can safely say this one is a keeper. i will be watching this again.
bumbling, useless and honest to a fault, han gijoon (gongyoo) starts up his own
business 첫사랑 찾기 주식회사 "finding your first true love company"
and soon meets his first (unwilling) client seo jiwoo (lim soojung).
jiwoo had met her first love kim jongok (also played by gongyoo for some reason)
in india 10 years previous.
fearful of unhappy endings, jiwoo never sees anything through
to the end, always having the happier memories as a comfort blanket.
in a desperate hope to get her to move on, jiwoo's father takes her to the
first true love company and together with han gijoon she must find and face
her first true love again.
knowing very little about kim jongok the search begins and takes the unlikely pair
of jiwoo and han gijoon all over the place. her tomboy fierce defiance and his
dorky clumsy openess make for a partnership of bickering and frustration to
begin with, but as they travel on they start to understand each other.
its a very cute film. its a bit stupid - they way lots of korean movies are - with
the silly humour and slapstick behaviour. the two leads are comfortably funny
with each other - i cant really explain that any other way. i love all the stupidity.
ryu seungsoo who plays han gijoon's brother in law was very funny aswell.
his moments always made me laugh.
i really just think it is a very well produced film, lots of shiny nice colours,
vivid but warpped hazy flash backs, random musical bits,
aish and aigoos being thrown around left right and center,
and lots of nice dialogue about fate and destiny and love etc.
the way korean films often like to encompass all this without making
you dizzy with sickly sweetness but instead filling up the would be cheesey moments
with clumsy bumbling humour, is what i really adore about south korean cinema.
both lim soojung and gongyoo are truly adorkable throughout this movie.
its a very pretty film visually and its got some lovely cute moments
in amongst all the stupidity and clumsy behaviour of pretty much everyone.
ah and the end. i loved the end. its so cute how it all ties back in on itself.
great film.
come on, jazz hands everyone
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