A-nae-ga kyeol-hon-haet-da   2008   South Korea My Wife got Married
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Director:Yun-su Jeon
Writer:Yun-su Jeon, Hye-jin Song
IMDb Rating:5.6 (114 votes)
Awards:1 win
Genre:Comedy, Romance
Duration:119 min
Languages:Korean
IMDb:1329470
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Yun-su Jeon  ...  (Director)
Yun-su Jeon, Hye-jin Song  ...  (Writer)
 
Ju-hyuk Kim  ...  Noh Deok-hoon
Ye-jin Son  ...  Joo In-ah
Seong-hun Cheon  ...  
Won-hong Choi  ...  
Hyeon-cheol Hong  ...  
Se-hyeong Jeong  ...  Doctor
Sang-wook Joo  ...  Han Jae-kyeong
Jeong-se Oh  ...  Byeong-soo
Jeong-a Yang  ...  
Yeong-geol Yun  ...  Bar owner
Comments: It's a sign of real talent when a director can take an implausible scenario and stifle any objections to it by making it fun, not to mention plausible. This is a film about bigamy with the added twist that the bigamist is a woman. But that's just the schtick. It's really just another film about a man's obsessive desire for a beautiful, care-free, intelligent, independent, quirky, sexually confident, slightly crazy woman. Ritual, La Belle, Interview, Green Tea. The list of films like this is endless. Every guy who didn't get and stay faithfully married at eighteen knows a woman like this and every woman knows this power. The setup doesn't require exposition, just a good actress. Son Ye-jin fills the role here admirably. She's a paradigm of contemporary Korean actresses: beautiful, sexy and seductive yet pure and nice, successful, innocent and wholesome, almost virginal. All at once!

This is not a deep or thoughtful film. It doesn't mine the characters' motivations or history in search of discovery or enlightenment. It just plays things out. When the first husband asks Son's character how she can divide her love between two men she responds, "I don't think of it as dividing. It's doubling." How do you respond to that? You can't. When she declares to her first husband that there is another man in her life but she was afraid to tell him because she thought he would think she was crazy, she's telling the truth. She didn't want to upset a man she loves. Sure, the first husband is sort of a wimp but that's what happens when an angel drains your soul. He cries and tries to find strength. It's funny watching him fail.

Don't go into this looking for social commentary or deep thoughts on the complicated nature of modern romance. It's just a Rom-Com with a delicious performance from Son Ye-jin. If you like her, and the broad theme doesn't morally prevent you from watching it, you will enjoy this film. It ultimately stays on the safe side of the road and only hints at being risqué, such as when Son Ye-jin fulfills her first husband's sexual fantasy of performing oral sex on him and keeping his penis in her mouth until he wakes up in the morning. Son Ye-jin!

Summary: It all started with football. Deok-hoon falls in love with In-ah who shares his love and passion for the sports. They quickly become lovers and he proposes. She refuses at first but they are eventually happily married. Marriage is like a dream until one day In-ah declares her wish to marry another man. She doesn’t want divorce as she loves Deok-hoon all the same, only change is that she loves the new man as much. Leaving Deok-hoon who finds himself unable to leave In-ah in the middle, she goes ahead and marries her new man. And so the bizarre bigamy begins.


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