The Contact ( Cheob-sok / 접속 -1997)

Starring:
Suk-kyu Han - Dong-hyun
Do-yeon Jeon - Su-heon
Supporting Cast
Sang Mi Chu
Yong Soo Park
Cheol-ho Choi
Tae-woo Kim
Beom-su Lee

The debut feature of Jang Yoon-Hyun (Tell Me Something), The Contact explores the universal human need for connection. It’s just another take on the popular tale of alienation in the urban wasteland, but Jang’s ability to sponge viewers’ emotions adds beauty to an otherwise bleak and common story.

The film is about how a heavily wired society has changed the way people communicate. Unlike most technophobic films, though, Jang explores the way normal people try to overcome this and form real bonds.

Jang’s central characters start out as strangers, with no reason to meet.

Crossing paths countless times throughout the film, they are unaware of each other and how their lives are connected. Radio producer Dong-Hyun (Han Suk-Kyu) and home shopping telemarketer Su-Hyun (Jun Do-Yun) are too haunted by their past loves to notice how life is passing them by. Unable to untangle themselves from the past, they wander through life aimlessly, trapped in their personal bubble of loneliness.
Until they meet on the Internet.

The two are then drawn together by their common interest in Velvet Underground’s music, and what began as a casual electronic chat soon blooms into love. Such is the great mystery of modern life: how two people who have not met can fall in love. Admittedly, words can warm bare souls, but there’s just so much intimacy that can be achieved virtually. -- The Star

Wow! This was a slow movie but it wasn't the boring type of slow. You generally learned about the main characters and their lives. Again, another movie, sort of about fate.

So many times our main characters met each other but didn't really notice the other. You seem to sit there hoping that eventually one or the other will take notice. But the internet intervened and they met through a forum that was hosted by Dong-hyun's radio station. Romance? Not yet. Actually I wouldn't call this a romance. They talked online but never really connected. In the end, when you think snow will fall, romance will bloom. Well, I was a bit confused by the ending. They finally meet but that was it......I didn't feel the connection which really made me angry because I was hoping for some kind of declaration or something.

So, the movie was really good but the ending left me lifeless. For some this might hit the spot but not for me. So that was strange. The movie was sooooo good then came the ending.........

Everybody Has Secrets (Nuguna bimileun itda / 누구나 비밀은 있다 -2004)

Starring:
Byung-hun Lee - Choi Su-hyeon
Sang Mi Chu - Han Ji-yeong
Hyo-jin Kim - Han Mi-yeong
Ji-Woo Choi - Han Seon-yeong
Yongnyeo Seonwoo - Mother
Hae-gon Kim - Ji-yeong's husband
Jae-hyeong Jeon - Han Dae-yeong
Jae-hun Tak - Sang-il
Min-a Jang
Bo-seok Jeong
Jun-ha Jeong
Hyeong-jin Kong
Yi Shin

Everybody Has Secrets revolves around Soo-hyun (Lee Byun-heon) and three sisters. While he is falling in love with the youngest sister Mi-young (Kim Hyo-jin), he also tries to seduce her two sisters, the "old virgin" Sun-young (Choi Ji-woo) and the married Jin-young (Chu Sang-mi). The three sisters are captivated by Soo-hyun's sweet talk and begin to put morality aside...

This was a weird movie. You'll understand at the end. I was like..."Huh?" Three girls hot for the same guy. Okay. He is cute and all but as you watch the show, you either hate him or your totally disallusioned. I did feel that their was something amiss but he slept with all the girls so it through me off guard. I was hoping he would hook up with the second sister but yoiu come to think she is psycho by the time his courtship with her is through.

I really don't know what to make of this move. I really don't. I'm going to say it was okay but not all that great. I really think they could have worked on the script just a wee bit more. Some kind of ellaboration would have been better. In all, this movie is okay to rent but to buyor download......neh!