My Friend & His Wife (DVD) (First Press Edition) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3
Shin Dong Il (Director)
| Park Hee Soon (Actor)
| Hong So Hee (Actor)
| Jang Hyun Sung (Actor)
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numinair
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May 11, 2009
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May 11, 2009
Fatal Distractions
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This movie by director Dong-il Shin as been delayed on DVD for some time and a related movie to the yet unreleased “When the Summer Passes Away” by director Ji-hae Sung, similarly exploring moral trust, self pursuit, extra marital passion and responsibility. If any proviso were needed the most here though it would be ‘moral responsibility’. Of two ex-military friends, who both love the same woman, here the whole crucial nature of an affair is upturned by a situation mid way through when Jae-moon’s wife Ji-sook takes on a needful business vacation trip to Paris relating to her hair dressing business, leaving her husband to look after their recently born baby. As Jae-moon regularly phones and meets up with his friend Ye-joon, they both one evening eat and drink at Jae-moons home, with Jae-moon preparing a culinary feast due to his professional cooking skills. What follows is the pivotal element that will leave you shocked and reeling, and highly challenged by following situations and ‘what comes first’ motivations in daily human conditions. The tragedy is in essence an ‘accident’ due to ignorance and carelessness, but so much is put to question, that even a fatalistic Divine Touch could be mused by the premeditated passions within Ye-joon’s heart for his friends wife. As the film switches to Ji-sook in Paris after the tragedy, I could only feel utmost sorrow to a woman unknowing to what was to befall here when she returned home. All this leads to a more complex and challenging relationship movie. Not just relating to Jae-moon and Ji-sook’s marriage and tragedy, but to Jae-moon’s decision about his friend Ye-joon and of J-sook’s own swaying responsibilities, and of how personal commitments and pursuits for money and love, create hateful dark traits to manifest, having finality both logically sad and destructive. Sex and passion ‘ending in tears’ is an understatement here. No doubt fate was fatally indicated by the symbol of Ye-joon’s blood red tie and Ji-sook’s red dress. In fact when Ji-sook sees ‘beyond the stars’ and her being an hairdresser, I did wonder what she might have done with her scissors. Acting from Hee-soon Park, Hyun-sung Jang and So-hee Honh is class A quality, which you would expect from a film of this pedigree. You’ll certainly get a shock from this richly conceived film. A film requiring a certain amount of looking beneath the surface of the plot with certain motifs implying much more than the film’s plot line. |
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