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.........

I Wish I Had a Wife (Nado anaega isseosseumyeon johgessda, 나도 아내가 있었으면 좋겠다-2000)

Starring:
Kyung-gu Sol ... Kim Bong-soo
Do-yeon Jeon ... Jung Won-ju
Hee-kyung Jin
Kwang-leol Jeon
Jung-Hee Moon
Tae-hwa Seo
Ban-ya Choi

Bong-soo has been working as manager of a small bank in an apartment complex for three years. During three years there -- no, for 23 years if you count his school days -- he has never been late.

However, he purposely decides to skip work one day. There is only one reason. Inside a subway train that has suddenly stopped on his way to work, everyone around him reaches for their cell phones to call someone. At that moment, he realized that he does not have a single person to call.

He doesn't know that inside the educational centre across the street from the bank where he works, a 27-year-old woman Won-ju is looking at him, nourishing a small love.

Bong-soo and Won-ju run into each other every day, at the Ramen restaurant, at the bank, at the bus station...

Various trivial incidents occur, but Bong-soo still does not truly recognize Won-ju's presence.

This will be a simple review. This movie didn't really contain any hotties so no pictures either.

This story was simple, slow, and a little bit apathetic. To some degree it reminded me of the Korean drama Soulmate. Both Bong-soo and Won-ju crossed paths so many times, but Bong-soo showed know inclination towards Won-ju. Poor Won-ju. It's always the woman who starts noticing...especially when paths cross a few times. Eventually she started liking then falling in love with Bong-soo. It took the whole movie before he realized that there was something between them.

This movie isn't for everyone. It is slow moving with lots of visuals and no talking. Don't expect a lot of emotion. It was kind of bland but I liked it. Okay, okay, okay...it was more of a girl movie than anything else. For mature audiences, meaning I don't see a teen or young adult liking this movie much. More of a grown-up thing..........