Let's just cut right to it, this show was painfully boring. There, I said it. A story built around partial amnesia has real potential, but between the choppy scene structure and random flashbacks thrown in constantly, the whole plot ends up feeling more tangled than it needed to be. The romance doesn't fare much better either, it's written so poorly that I never really found myself invested in this couple. Both leads come across stiff on screen and deliver their lines in a really awkward way. The show runs 8 episodes, each somewhere around 30 to 35 minutes. Hanuel, a 29 year old language teacher, wakes up after an accident only to realize his memory stops at age 19. It turns out he'd been in another accident back then too, which is why his memories cut off at that point. He has zero recollection of the fact that he's currently living with his childhood friend Saebyeok, who's now a huge celebrity. That makes the whole situation even harder for Hanuel to wrap his ...
The film is about this comedian and wife. They have apathy marriage and the husband keeps joking to his wife that she is having affair with her best girlfriend (which she is, it seems). After the comedian's sudden death, a man shows up at the funeral saying that the husband was involved in an affair with a mute rent boy and now that he is dead, the wife needs to pay the dues that are owed. She is not surprised by learning of the revelation. This is when the "girlfriend" steps in and says she will take care of it. Meanwhile, the mute rent boy finds some sort of admiration and attraction for the wife, which is never clearly explained. He wants out for himself from this pimp but he would have none of it. The 'girlfriend' and wife come up with some wretched plan where they decide they will threaten the pimp and kill him. In the end the wife (or was it the girlfriend' who dies after being pushed from the roof and the film just as randomly ends as it started.
I am telling you film was just extremely awful right from bad acting to bad story to bad direction. The worse was the so called villain who offs so caricaturist and totally laughable. The script, if there was any, is so random. And to top off all this there is this jarring background music throughout the film which is so damn annoying. I guess it is supposed to substitute for plot and angsty shots of people pouting for extended periods of time. I debated if I should even review the film here, since besides the comedian said to have an affair with a rent boy, there is nothing else gay/queer about this, but then I guess it makes sense, becasue a subject like this won't have been touched those times. Even though the film is just under an hour, no one and I mean not even your worst enemies should have to sit through this atrocity. (0/10)
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