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Dalkom, Salbeorhan Yeonin (My Scary Girl)
There is something very satisfying about watching a person who is more fumbling, more awkward, and more self-conscious then I am when around a pretty lady. If I haven't peed down my leg by mid-date, I consider it a success and am already trying to think of ways to apologize for the sex later in the night. I once kept pieces of paper in my pockets, sort of like a dating crib-sheet, so I wouldn't become confused about where my hand was supposed to go and if I should kiss with tongue. Trial after trial, those notes would be refined and I would become a better half. Okay, I'm lying, I mostly just poked and prodded until I got noises or kicks and went from there. Now, I am so good I should be writing a how-to-book.. for Dummies. "How to Sex Up a Blind Date for Dummies!" It's copyrighted, bastards, don't even think about it!
I really couldn't take a lot of notes while watching this as the subtitles went a little fast. I was able to keep up with the situation, but I am sure I missed subtle nuances. Forgive me. My Scary Girl takes place in a world not so different than our own, one with hate and love and murder, but it is also a world of love and forgiveness and overacting, a world I like to call, South Korea. I have never really seen South Korea as a vacation destination for me, but after seeing what sort of slightly off-canter people live there, I may go just for a little bit of insanity.
My Scary Girl is about a 30-something year old schlub in South Korea that has yet to have sex or a girlfriend, or even a kiss. I immediately feel better about myself. I was totally having awkward teen sex by 30! He bumps in to the neighbour one door down and begins his nice-guy assault. Personally, I would rather be clubbed over the head, but whatever, I guess things must be different there. But much like my choice in women, Dae-woo, our not-so-swinging bachelor, finds out the girl he likes may not be what she seems. Not to be deterred Dae-woo begins wooing (no pun intended) the girl across the hall. While trying to get closer to Mina, his cute neighbour, he also has run-ins with her borderline psychotic room-mate who is obsessed with kimchi. On just an aesthetic note, the room-mate looked 25-28 naturally, but when she frowned or bit her lip, she looked 65-70. It freaked me out on more than one occasion and I was quite certain the movie would venture into her being a spirit. A vengeful, drunken, slutty spirit. The best kind there is. The one thing I noticed about every actor in this film was that they seemed to have problems controlling the volume of their voices. They would be normally saying a sentence and the last word would be three octaves above the rest of the sentence. One would be whispering to the other, except for the last couple of words which they yelled like they had just been lit on fire. Perhaps I am just not grasping the emotions because I am having to read the subtitles, but honestly, I still have no idea what all the excitement was about. I have a Korean friend (yep, just one), and I think if he randomly yelled as they do in this movie, we wouldn't be friends and he certainly couldn't have helped me cheat in A&P. If we're ever drunk in a bar, ask me to name all the bones in the foot.
I think, really, if you talk too much about this movie, it not only gives away the story but also takes some of the cuteness away from it. It's the story of a South Korean virgin who finds a girl... with a secret in her refrigerator. It wasn't really a fascinating movie, it has odd pacing, and I watched it in two seperate parts on two different nights. The ending does nothing to brighten the movie or make it even the slightest bit more interesting and honestly, I have forgotten all about it. Wisdom or warning, I do not know.
1.4 / 4.0
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