Innocent Crush

From Zombie movies to Monster movies the Korean filmmakers have been making better versions of Hollywood movies. Here is a story of a fatal attraction style crush of a school girl on a married high school gym teacher. The Compared to a Hollywood thriller the pace is deliberate but its a watchable and plausible build up to a genuinely tense finale. Good acting.

The tone of this movie is really good. I found the beginning to be subtly perverse which i think is perfect for the context of the film. Throughout the film you're not sure what is real or not. There are a few sex scenes throughout the film that seem graphic only because of how intimate they are. I have never really seen anything like it tbh. It made me uncomfortable because it felt a little to personal. the ending is kind of chintzy and predictable, but the beginning is definitely worth watching.

I liked the movie - a romantic mystery and thriller keeps you guessing what is going to happen next. The teacher and coach gets caught up in a high school girl who has a crush on him. The girl takes it too far trying to get his attention all the time until she traps him in a room alone a night when things get out of hand. It is all over from then on out as she becomes a stalker, pulling tricks and imagining things and even conning his pregnant wife into tutoring her in his home and even staying overnight. It goes from a bad situation to a worse situation. The ending isn't the happiest one I have seen - that's for sure.

The film shows the horrific consequences of lustful attraction and how important it is to differentiate between love and lust, especially for today's teens and young adults. Korean cinema never fails to impress.

With any infidelity movie, there is a great chance it will fall flat when the wife is more beautiful than the temptress. With this movie, called "Innocent Thing" on American cable TV with subtitles, the wife is a stunning elegant beauty while the temptress has a mousy face, stick figure and not much going for her other than youth and quick camera edits.

There is a night and day difference when a movie with infidelity has a world class attractive temptress, such as the movie "Argento's Dracula" also being shown this same month on cable TV. The temptress in "Argento's Dracula" has every female perfection to make instant fireworks in any husband's eyes. In other words, the temptress is irresistible.

People are different, but in "Innocent Thing" the wife is a head-turner that a man would look twice at as she walks by, but the temptress is just average and so the whole movie does not work so well. Chemistry is subjective.