Windstruck...*bam...ouch*

Windstruck - kmovie - is the 2nd movie out of 3 romantic dramas I seem to have on my bored-out-of-my-mind list. As previously stated, the director/writer, Kwak Jae-yong, and female actress, Jeon Ji-hyung, have done My Sassy Girl and Daisy together. This is the middle movie out of the three. This starts out as a comedy as Kyung-jin, a female police officer, mistakenly chases down a dorky high school teacher, Myung-woo, believing him to be a purse-snatcher. Kwak Jae-yong is definitely a manipulative writer as he throws in the unexpected right when the story starts getting boring and almost predictable. In this movie, unlike the other movies, the unexpected is very close to being random. There are many hm? moments. *spoilers* About halfway through the movie you know Myung-woo will die. He says he wants to become the wind when he goes and the director definitely gives him plenty of opportunity to die. His actual death was surprising. From that point on, there is no more comedy and it gets kinda sappy. Towards the light...go! The director does use beautifully arranged settings to move the film along those sappy places. *more spoilers* There's a nod to his first popular film, My Sassy Girl, as Kyung-jin's new potential soulmate is the main male character from that movie. If you are planning a night of asian chick-flix , I'd recommend the films by Kwak Jae-yong.

one more film to go, j-movie...don't know if i can make it...uga uga

ETA: 20 minutes in and fastforwarding and I gave up on...
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World - jmovie - Attempted to watch this, since it kept showing up whenever I looked for some good live-action media. It's basically high school schmoop and angst. Girl and boy fall in love. Girl has incurable disease. Girl dies. Boy angsts and angsts....nothing else happens. All aspects of the film were bland. Too pure and sad for me.

~ah, I've mushed up enough brain cells today.