A Bizarre Love Triangle Details

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Terrible

As a big fan of Korean film, I've got in to the habit of watching anything Korean regardless of some receiving poor reviews. I have to stop this. Enticed by the Park Chan-Wook writing credit, I was sorely disapoointed by this mess of a film. The characters were shallow and unsympathetic. The futuristic sequences were horrible, charmless and unfunny. Similarly with 'The Humanist', it's probably best not to assume everything Park Chan-Wook touches is gold.

Flawed but I liked it

The story follows 2 girls who were friends at school. Kuem-Sook had a crush on Eun-Hee but it was unrequited. Kuem-Sook ends up in prison for assault and Eun-Hee marries a rich comedian, Doo-Chan, but is unfulfilled. After Kuem-Sook is released they begin an affair and when Doo-Chan finds out, their lives become very complicated.

I rented this because I'm a big fan of Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy etc.) who co-wrote this, although it's not much like any of his other films (and a lot less violent). Although if you've seen the Vengeance trilogy and are looking for his earlier work I would recommend JSA and Humanist over this.

All in all, I thought this film was kind of amusing but quite strange (particularly the scenes on the Moon). The plot had some nice turns although some scenes don't entirely work. Not a bad way to spend an hour and half though.