This one's a beautiful, tender, quiet romantic drama with a moody atmosphere, set in a tight knit Welsh fishing community. It's a touching story about a man waking up sexually in the middle of his life, and how he, his family, and everyone around him deal with it, which makes it emotional and sentimental without ever getting over the top. The slow burn plays out against a landscape that's as bleak as it is gorgeous, where quiet, closed off men are stuck inside rigid ideas of what masculinity should be. Some people might be reminded of "God's Own Country," but I think both films are lovely in their own way. Jack is a middle aged guy who co-owns a mussel farm with his rough around the edges brother Dyfan, and the tension between the two of them is simmering under the surface right from the start. Dyfan's three sons all help out with the work, while Jack's sulky teenage son Tom keeps skipping out. Jack's been with his wife since they were both 16, and...
Nobleman Ryu Ho Seon is getting married to Hwa Jin, but on the wedding night he finds out that his bride is actually a man Choi Ki Wan, who was the bride's brother but replaced the bride as she ran away on the wedding day. Choi Ki Wan convinces Ryu to keep up his charade for the sake of family honor both sides and as soon as the sister returns, she will take back the place. Needless to say, Ryu quickly tries to annul the marriage, but looking at his ailing mother decides to stick with the plan. The husband wife just have to make sure that no one finds out, which is not easy given the encounters that keep happening. Things get even complicated when Ryu's best friend visits him and falls in love with Choi Ki Wan as a woman and starts sending her love letters. Meanwhile, Choi is really enjoying his duties as a wife and is somehow falling involve with Ryu. Unexpectedly when his sister returns, things get complicated when truth comes out. Ryu declines to accept the actual bride and so Choi also goes back to his home, once the truth is out. But eventually Ryu also realizes that he misses Choi's company and they eventually kiss and make up. Are they lovers or friends is left uptown the viewers to decide.
As I mentioned before, as a viewer, you really have to get over the whole disbelief over all the situations that happen here. I did the mistake of trying to finding logic in historical accuracy, how can one one know thatt hewife is a man? The voice, the looks, the body, there are plenty of things. How come there are no other people at all during wedding or afterwords? Why did have to be a historical drama that felt like a drama made on a shoestring budget and many many more things like that. And This was a mistake. I was really frustrated while watching the show. Had I known, I would have just tried to watch to as a stupid mindless show, which did have some funny moments, I would have enjoyed it better. But its really hard to do that when the plot os contrived. Some funny moments with Ryu's sister harassing the bride or Ryu's friend consistent love letters to Choi added to fun banter but the whole ending seem forced. Ryu, at no point, had any romantic feelings for Choi, so the sudden kiss in the end felt very out of place. It would have made more sense for the friend to have Choi at the end.
The show wasn't made to be funny, but the amount of flaws in it and the sheer ridiculousness of the situation the whole plot is revolving around made it feel like a parody of some sort. (4/10)
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I liked the costumes. And wondered about the feather thing too haha.
Kinda like Luigi, I was also pleased to see Kang In Soo from "wish you". Except he doesn't take his shirt off this time, losing most of the interrest :p
On the contrary he probably had like 15 layers of clothes. In hindsight, this was just a silly, spoof like stuff.