My Sassy Girl (2001)
Hey, I haven’t posted in a while, huh… I haven’t seen too many movies since What’s Your Raashee?. HERE is a list of all I’ve seen this year (I update it whenever I watch a movie).
So notable – Ikiru was really good, yet quite sad. Død snø was AWESOME what with being about some med students in Norway up on a mountain fighting off Nazi zombies. Spy Girl was a funny/cute/stupid time pass film. G-Men was okay, as was Sanshiro Sugata Part II (Part I was on at 3am so I didn’t get to see it).
No Regrets for Our Youth was really really good, though I’ll admit to not knowing anything about the earlier war events happening in the film (my school failed at non-Canadian history, okay? All I was taught about Japan in history was that they attacked Pearl Harbor, and were later nuked twice by the US).
The other two movies that I watched (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Lakeview Terrace) weren’t awful, but nothing really to write home about.
So that brings me to… My Sassy Girl! Which apparently they made a Hollywood version in 2008. I think I vaguely remember seeing something about that, but my memory isn’t that great sometimes…
(IMDB) – Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of Kyun-woo (Cha) and an unnamed girl. Kyun-woo is shamed into assisting the girl because the other passengers mistakenly think she is his girlfriend. Once he helps her, Kyun-woo develops a deep sense of responsibility for her which enables him to tolerate (somehow) the girls abuses.
I only had a few reactions while watching this. I was either laughing to nearly the brink of tears, feeling sympathetic towards a character, squeeing like a little school girl, and crying. I’m a total sap sometimes…
Mostly the film was hilarious. Day-dream sequences with a bunch of flying through the air and gunfire, a slapping game, rewriting the ending of an epic romance film, Kyun-woo running around in high heels, partying like drunken fools in their high school uniforms… Just to name a few.
It’s just one of those stories that’ll make you laugh until you cry, and cry until you laugh.
Rating: 5/5
