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When I fist read the plot, I though it was going to be one of those twisted Hollywood sexual social dramas but with an Asian touch to it. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was indeed wrong.

This movie has some wild scenes but they don't seem incongruent or raunchy. They blend in with the social circumstances and with the personalities of the characters. The plot outlines the lives of two individuals who don't relish the idea of marriage which is, for lack of a better word, imperative for social harmony according to the Korean society. They however get along very well since they share amongst other things, a desire for closure and personal comfort.

The movie is very well directed with full credit going to its impeccable screenplay. The acting is fabulous with both the lead actor and actress doing a splendid job.

Overall, I would give this a 9/10

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This story shows romance in the most realistic way

Starts of as an ordinary South Korean romantic drama then took turn into something that is close to films like Friends With Benefits and No Strings Attached but then showed that it is much more than any of that. The similarities to the mentioned films stay only in the outline of the film as the difference in culture plays a big part there. It avoided the complexities of infidelity and showed the melancholic happiness that is found by the confused people who can't act above what the society is forcing upon them. The emotions are conveyed very subtly while the trivial events and the intimacy is portrayed in a straightforward manner without too much manipulation. The director being a former poet seem to understand exactly how to deal with real emotions.

First of all, both characters has really damn good performance, especially that guy. production quality is nice for 2002 korean cinema. overall its really good. but it has no moral.

The plot is not new, there are some movies in 80s or 90s about same kinda plot. that guy n girl having just sexual OPEN relationship but no serious untill things gets serious slowly but ends up with different person and then rekindle the emotions later after marriage.

the movie has bad moral or lesson , like marriage is all about " honesty , faith , loyalty and respect" , and when adultery happens , then it destroys everything. but here in this movie it shows , that its ok to cheat because its LOVE or emotions?

if the movie ends with some better conclusion then maybe it would be really great romantic drama.

Part of an accidental trilogy I created on somewhat strange "love" stories (this along with "Asako I and II" and "Meet Cute").

This film feels like a sort of straw-man argument against the monogamous constraints of human relationships. It reminded me of youthful discussions and/or indiscretions; indeed one of the two extremely attractive leads is a college professor. He comes complete with a swooning coed throwing herself at him. Is he 30 going on 19?

Instead our inveterate bachelor becomes a kept man to his lover whose contractual marriage then pays for their little love flat. While this arrangement I suppose is to show a sort of "true love" in the "s/he just gets me" mode, it felt like innocents playing house. And like a relationship stuck in the infatuation mode.

Anyways, the film may or may not work as a date movie. It sort of let's the viewer's heart and mind race against each other, and perhaps their loins quiver (actually pretty well done soft erotica).

The frisson of infatuation is definitely intoxicating, and the idea of an affair as a secret island for two to share, or in this room with a view, there's a lot of energy to be tapped from that. The allure of making love for hours versus trying to make a marriage over decades, here the former wins a bit too easily.

If marriages were as easy as flings, or as intensely enjoyable....that would be a crazy, and wonderful, thing. We could all be much older, but going on 19...

I always dug the title of an old Sonic Youth album "Confusion is Sex" - marriage might be crazy, but I think it strives to bring clarity to our short chaotic existence.