I am a personal fan of romantic comedy films,
I enjoy watching it not because I am a hopeless romantic but rather I enjoy the
lightness of that kind of film. No heavy
dramas, something that can make you laugh and will give you good vibes
afterwards. But not all romantic comedy
films are good. Oftentimes you will find
it a bit cliché, same old boy meets girl and happy endings. Those factors are the things that can
discourage you from watching one. The
things that can make you go and watch the movie are the humor that comes along
with it. It may be typical at some point
but how the movie is presented and the phases of it are plotted can satisfy
ones fussy taste.
Love fiction is another romantic comedy
film. The story goes like this. A writer meets an attractive woman and falls
in love on first sight. Will there love last?
Ku Joo-Wol (Ha Jung-Woo) is a writer and a part-time as a
bartender. He’s currently working on his
second novel, but stuck with a bout of writer’s block. Joo-Wol then accompanies
the president of his publishing company to Berlin on a business trip as a
translator. On his last day in Berlin,
Joo-Wool attends a party for movie industry insiders. Joo-Wool, bored with the party, steps outside
to smoke a cigarette. A woman named Hee-Jin
(Kong Hyo-Jin) then walks next to him and smokes a cigarette. Joo-Wol falls in love on first sight. Back in Seoul, Hee-Jin finds a letter and a
flower basket awaiting for her on her desk.
Hee-Jin reads the letter from Joo-Wol and finds it funny. Meanwhile,
Joo-Wol waits and waits for her phone call.
Finally, Joo-Wol gets the phone call from Hee-Jin. The soon-to-be couple
will meet for the second time…
The
thing I love about this film is definitely not the later part of the
movie. What is likable in the movie are
the characters and how they evolved in the movie. The later part of it was another typical
story that actually had not given justice to the whole movie, despite of it the
movie is still fun to watch.
The humor was actually good, the story may be
typical but the humor was not. But
eventually the film got to safe and melodramatic. You will get hooked on the first half of the film
but you will find yourself over bored on the later parts but still it wouldn’t
reach the point that you will stop watching in.
Over the entire movie was good but not good enough.
Another thing that is good in this film is it
portrays a relationship in a very realistic way. We see the couple through meeting, then
honey-moon phase, and then the moments where that little red thread starts
loosening, bit by bit. It may sound,
again cliché but a story that definitely everyone will be able to relate. But in all fairness to this film, if you
wanted to laugh, this film will definitely make you. Who wouldn’t laugh at a gorgeous girl with
hair on her armpit, right?
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