Title: 완벽한 타인 | Wanbyeokhan Tain | Complete Stranger | Intimate Strangers
Genre: Drama | Comedy | Friendship
Distributor: Lotte Entertainment
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Synopsis:
Seok-Ho, a plastic surgeon and his wife, Ye-Jin, a successful psychiatrist invited their friends for their housewarming. They are Tae-Soo, a lawyer and overbearing husband of Soo-Hyun, a housewife who takes care of their 3 kids and her mother-in-law. Joon-Mo, a businessman who’s known for his ventures that often fail is married to Se-Kyung, a Vet and independent woman but got so smitten with Joon-Mo that she forgotten who she is and what she wants in her life. And, Young-Bae, a bachelor and a professor whom all of them often tease about his mysterious and always not available girlfriend. The party started great until they play the game of allowing all of them to read their texts, e-mails and listen to their phone calls during the party. The game started in a fun way until one by one their secrets got unexpectedly revealed that may result to the devastation of their friendship and marriages.
Characters:
- Yu Hae-Jin as Tae-Soo
- Yum Jung-Ah as Soo-Hyun
- Cho Jin-Woong as Seok-Ho
- Kim Ji-Soo as Ye-Jin
- Lee Seo-Jin as Joon-Mo
- Song Ha-Yoon as Se-Kyung
- Yoon Kyung-Ho as Young-Bae
- Ji-Woo as So-Young
- Jung Ji-Hoon as Joon-Mo
- Jin Seon-Kyu as Facebook Man’s Voice
- Jo Dal-Hwan as Detective Kang Kyung-Joon’s voice
My Review:
I watched this Korean film because I got curious on how this film will play the game of revelations through the characters’ mobile phones. I was pleasantly surprised on how good it was done. It is true that our mobile phones is an extension of how we live our lives as we all live with 3 lives, the public life, the private life and the secret life.
So, What do I Like About this K-Drama?
(1) Yu Hae-Jin as Tae-Soo fits to “T” his character. He successful made me mad about the kind of man you wouldn’t want to marry.
(2) I saw Yum Jung-Ah in the k-drama of Sky Castle. Her role on that k-drama is the total antithesis of her character on the film as Soo-Hyun and she pulled it off. Her talent as an actress is quite impressive indeed.
(3) Cho Jin-Woong as Seok-Ho done a good job of reflecting his character of being a reasonable and loving father and his struggle to keep up with his strong and successful wife, Ye-Jin.
(4) Kim Ji-Soo enabled her character as Ye-Jin really look strong and as if well put together, so, the revelation of her secret life truly will surprise the audience. It surprised me and even on that short scene, I believe that’s the highlight of all secrets.
(5) Lee Seo-Jin as Joon-Mo really emitted the personality of a suave and a charmer of a man. You can love his character for his sensitivity and even you can get suck by his charm. So, when his secret got revealed, you will feel cheated on.
(6) Song Ha-Yoon as Se-Kyung effectively portrayed a woman totally in love and believes in her man even after what happened.
(7) It was the first time I watched a Korean drama or film that tackled about homosexual topic and Yoon Kyung-Ho as Young-Bae was very impressive in revealing the difficulty of the way gay people have to live with the discrimination in a conservative society in South Korea.
What I do Not Like About this K-Film?
This film would have been perfect except for how it ended. I thought at first the scene was in another time but, alas, it wasn’t. It seems the director and writer have to wrapped the film up fast, don’t know what to do afterwards with the characters and ended it in a disappointing way. I actually got confused of how the characters can go back to their usual life as if no devastating secrets got revealed about them. It would have been a great film if not for the nonsensical ending.
Would I recommend this K-Movie? Yes
My Rating to this Korean Film
( See My Rating System: ) 4/5 Stars