Driving With My Wife's Lover (DVD) (Limited Edition) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3
Cho Eun Ji (Actor)
| Park Kwang Jung (Actor)
| Jung Bo Suk (Actor)
| Kim Tae Sik (Director)
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numinair
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October 8, 2007
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October 8, 2007
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As I began watching this movie with its mischievous dry humored main theme and Tae Han (played excellently by Gwang Jeong Park) intricately cutting out a stamping seal, which he then suddenly inks and stamps vigorously an impression of an expletive word onto a paper form (which isn't darn or piffle), indicating disapproval of his wife's affair - I just knew I was in for a very dry humored treat from that 'word' go! This is brilliant, it really is and with this film's sharp wit and packed to the brim of visual funnies, I liked it similarly to the fallacious and wacky "A Bizarre Love Triangle", that also featured Eun Ji Jo here. I love Korean movies when they go for dry deadpan humor, and although relationship cheating isn't something I'm fan club member of, with all the great visual deadpan humor you get here, this is one extra marital affairs movie not to miss! In this you follow the quirky and kooky Tae Han as he decides to hitch a lift home from Seoul with Joong Shik (Bo Seok Jeong), the taxi driver philander who is having an affair (and cheating on his own wife) with Tae Han's wife, but not letting Joong Shik realize he knows of his sordid affair with his wife. You then get a part road movie (first half of the film) with these two eccentric characters getting familiar with each other, and Tae Han constantly assessing Joong Shik's philandering ways, as JS drives and converses with various females on the route and speaks openly about his easy going attitudes to casual sex. (Also Indicating some car squeaking scenes to the sound of honeymooner's bed springs!) Tae Han and Joong Shik are like an 'odd couple' comedy act, playing into various oddball situations and eccentric whims. Like Joong Shik challenging Tae Han to a game of badminton (regarding their situation here, I nearly spluttered coffee everywhere when they suddenly played this! Symbol - Playing the Field?) after the taxi breaks down. They also get chased by a load of watermelons, rolling down a slopped roadway (apparently escaping off the back of a lorry?), which they catch some and eat by the road side. Another crazy aspect is when Joong Shik drives up to Tae Han's wife's house and covers his car in a multi colored blanket 'camouflage', as if to hide the fact he is a wife cheater. But the blanket suggests a loud eccentric style and makes him seem more the Philander of S Korea! Yep, its somewhat surreal this, and there is even a hen reference (I ain't going there!!) but as the script flows, it all moves along as a very funny dry (and sometimes black) comedy. The other main player here is Eun Ji Jo, who as been in "Tears", "My Scary Girl", "Afrika" and "A Bizarre Love Triangle" and quite an actress who can play downright nutty parts, but also quite sensitive and gritty ones, too. She acts well here as the cheated wife to Tae Han's cheated husband, and if you have caught her role in "My Scary Girl", you know you can certainly expect a good performance from her. (She also reminds me facially of an old school acquaintance I knew years ago, funnily enough, albeit she was Caucasian and Eun Ji Korean Asian). Here, EJ plays the taxi driver's cheated wife, and together with Tae Han, forms the second segment of this film as the two betrayed ones getting to know each other. All three main actors are excellent, and I think this is easily another classic Korean movie. Its got a bit of a simple ending, and you don't really know where these two guys are really heading (as neither do they, so it seems) - its sort of you did it, I did it scenario. I thought that maybe the black and white ending was indicating (maybe) a nod towards "A Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors", due to Jeong Bo Seok being in this. Whatever the case, this is one fine and funny film concerning the cheater theme again - and I like this one! There is a bit of routy tooty at one point, so prepare for some bouncy springy bits! But for Korean cinema - this is great, great, great! Buy it - its another hit! |
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