Blossom Again (AKA: Sarangni) (DVD) (2-Disc) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3

Kim Jung Eun (Actor) | Jung Ji Woo (Director)

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September 3, 2009

Illusions of First Love Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

I can see why “Blossom Again” causes confusion as the plot’s fused with a mixture of mirroring characters, reality and reveries. With similar scenario to K-movie “Green Chair” and HK movie “July Rhapsody”, where a tutor falls in love with a younger subject, here female maths tutor In Young (Jung Eun Kim) with schoolboy Suk Lee (Tae Sung Lee), all here though is not what it seems. Characters are mirrors of each other having parallels of past and present, and emotionally determined to fulfill first love. The boy Suk Lee reminds In Young of her first love who she’d separated with due to limited expectations (and whose name’s also Suk Lee to indicate movements of the strangely coincidental), and although In Young lives with another man (no, not another Suk Lee!), she falls in love with Suk Lee M2 due to his similarities to In Young’s youthful first fancy. In Young’s live-in is more a brotherly confident, who In Young probably wished Suk Lee M1 to be, and confides to him about sexual feelings she as for Suk Lee M2. But a schoolgirl becomes a love rival to In Young, similarly falling in first love with Suk Lee M2. The girl’s crush parallels In Young’s own first love, shown in analogous juxtaposed reveries. In Young and the girl become infatuated with Suk Lee M2, with In Young dreamily and enviously wishing she had the latter’s youth to regain her ‘lost love’. Emotional contortions get even more complex when Suk Lee M2’s twin brother replaces this infatuation after Suk Lee M2 tragically dies.

For me “Blossom Again” shows how first love is limiting, by creating emotional and self entrapment if it fails. First love works if sustained and natural, but if a person relates only to memories of a failed love they cannot yield, that person can turn to delusional substitutes. Dreamily painting ‘someone’ as an unreal proxy for first love. A proxy too with a different individuality. In Young here cannot let go of her first ‘failed’ love, and finds reflected 'love' (delusion) in Suk Lee M2. The odd ending seems to be a parallel delusion passion; the crestfallen schoolgirl also unable to move emotionally away from Suk Lee M2, wishes to be re-born as Suk Lee M2 so to re-bond with ‘first love’. Blossom Again? Which is In Young’s wish! What a love loop! O.O Acting’s good. Jung Eun always gives her honest best and is a charming actress to say the least and Lee Tae Sung does well, but seems more suitable in grittier parts like “Gangster High”.