Windstruck...*bam...ouch*

[seichan]

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.

Comments

[janipanda.livejournal.com]

You've made me watched Daisy today and it was a good movie. A bit heart wrenching in the end and I like it specially since it didn't end in a happily ever after.

Hmm.....Maybe I should pick up Winstruck as well.

I'm still stuck on J dramas though. Right now, watching Busu no Hitomi ni Koishiteru- comedy/romance with the non-traditional heroine. Still waiting for Lunch Queen and Dandori to continue...

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

me too...waiting waiting for the last couple episodes of lunch queen!!!

glad you liked daisy. it's interesting how the director uses the same actress over and over in different types of stories.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

See, while Sassy Girl got me halfway through (I was all sniffly at the end), I really couldn't stand Windstruck. There's just something about that ditzy, cloyingly gooey cuteness Koreans find desirable traits in women that makes me want to strangle something.

While I've not watched the COLCW movie or dorama, I have read the novel in Japanese, and while it had some striking imagery in one or two spots, I found it as pointless and impressionless as you did. If you don't mind putting spoilers in your comments, what happened in the flick after the girl died? I've heard there are some pretty fundamental differences between the novel and the spinoffs, so I'm curious.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

ah sorry, i didn't watch the whole movie. i gave up. i browse tokyopop's english version of the manga and novel, but they both sounded like they came out of the young teen pop fiction section so again, i never read them all the way through.

the wiki entry says that the japanese really got into that particular title after the whole 'winter sonata' kdrama was introduced to japan. maybe that pure love ain't for me..haha.

been reading your adventures overseas. hope all is well.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd hesitate to say the novel's popularity is due to FuyuSo, as the history of doomed love in Japanese literature goes all the way back to Edo-period Kabuki love suicide plays, and you can see similar themes in earlier Noh plays and novels as well. So I'd say it was those that contributed to FuyuSo's popularity.

Am safe and sound out of Bangkok now. Thanks for the wishes:)

[bumpybear.livejournal.com]

watched windstruck a while back, b/c it has mr. bear's favorite guy from volcano high in it. i thought it was eh. funny, maybe at first, then the ending was sappy just for the sake of being sappy -- no point. though the surprise cameo at the end was interesting.

lunch queen isn't over yet? i THOUGHT i'd watched the last few eps already ...

tried watching first few eps. of that "busu" comedy with the smappy guy .. not all that good i thought. hard to root for fat girl when she is so oblivious to the inappropriateness of herself dancing in leotards and angel wings.