love is what you make of it. ...or whatever Lee ByungHun tells you it is.
The first quote used in the movie was “only the last love of a woman can satisfy the first love of a man” – Balzac. I know it is a quote from a literary figure and all that, but I’m going to change it to “only the first love of a woman can satisfy the last love of a man”, as it makes more sense. I really think they should’ve used “Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.” - Oscar Wilde seen as it is more appropriate that way round. But never mind.
Anyway, I didn’t start this review off terribly well did I?
Main Cast:
SuHyeon – Lee ByungHun
[a bittersweet life, iris, the good the bad and the weird]
MiYeong – Kim HyoJin
[five senses of eros, marrying the mafia 2, marry me mary]
SeonYeong – Choi JiWoo
[winter sonata, beautiful days, now and forever]
JiYeong – Chu SangMi
[the city hall, my woman, love and ambition]
So in drastic contrast to my last post, this film is light hearted and funny with an adorably devious main character playing around with three very different women. The three sisters become entangled with this man when MiYeong (the cold fickle heartbreaker) meets and falls in love with him.
The second sister to fall prey to his charms is SeonYeong, a 27yr old virgin, bookworm, and generally shy and unfulfilled girl waiting to find someone to excite her. Then we have the eldest sister JiYeong who is in a sexless marriage with a gynaecologist, she also eventually loses all sense of reason and falls into bed with him.
Now, actually there is an adorably cute reason for all this and I really think it has more to offer as a story than just a man playing three girls off one another.
It is funny and cheeky, but also I think kind of moving. There is more to this story than anyone realises for a good long while – in the end, no-one really ever knows the full story; secrets are indeed the point, but it isn’t harsh or cruel – it is actually really quite awesome.
It is funny and cheeky, but also I think kind of moving. There is more to this story than anyone realises for a good long while – in the end, no-one really ever knows the full story; secrets are indeed the point, but it isn’t harsh or cruel – it is actually really quite awesome.
ByungHun rocks my universe; we know that by now, I won’t go on about it, but he is as great as he ever is and I do love to see him play light hearted characters for a nice change to the usual heavy chaotic hell breaking loose type that normally graces my screen.
SeonYeong was my favourite character, so cute, full of pent up sexual frustration – she was not only adorable but the most amusing out of the bunch. And to be fair, Choi JiWoo is so beautiful I love to watch her be all scatty and adorable. I really like the pairing of ByungHun and JiWoo and their *ahem* bed scenes were really funny. 
There is really nothing of the film to explain further. It has a good cast and the story line is not as format as it seems at first. Worth watching for the silliness alone, but definitely a nice take on what love really means.
promo stuff:
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