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A young man in love for the first time discovers his girlfriend has a nasty secret in her refrigerator.
Dae-Woo, a man with no experience in the art of relationships, is encouraged by his friend to ask Lee Mina, the girl who's just moved in downstairs, out on a date. Unexpectedly successful, he falls in love. When Lee Mina's ex-boyfriend shows up and ruins the new relationship, she takes matters into her own hands. A distraught Dae-Woo begins investigating Lee Mina's murky past and discovers a series of scary secrets.
My Scary Girl isn't an art film; it's a twisted, complex piece of popular entertainment. Maybe it is something
A young man in love for the first time discovers his girlfriend has a nasty secret in her refrigerator.
Dae-Woo, a man with no experience in the art of relationships, is encouraged by his friend to ask Lee Mina, the girl who's just moved in downstairs, out on a date. Unexpectedly successful, he falls in love. When Lee Mina's ex-boyfriend shows up and ruins the new relationship, she takes matters into her own hands. A distraught Dae-Woo begins investigating Lee Mina's murky past and discovers a series of scary secrets.
My Scary Girl isn't an art film; it's a twisted, complex piece of popular entertainment. Maybe it is something similarly weird and fun that will break the HD barrier in the West, and finally make this cheap technology a lucrative and viable moviemaking option.
Before the many complications of its plot set in, My Scary Girl could be a kind of Korean 40 Year-Old Virgin. Its protagonist, the straight-laced professor Hwang Dae-Woo, is not merely abstinent; he has never so much as been on a date. In accordance with movie logic, he meets a too-cute girl-next-door and exposes his romantic ineptitude through a series of awkward encounters, but eventually wins her over. This is about as much plot as most American audiences can take, but director Son Jae-Gon is either trying to bust up Hollywood clichés, or he is so in love with them that he wants to shove into this story every genre, mood, or type of character he can bring to mind.
Dae-Woo is a genuinely funny character, a man who ignorant about love to the point of absurdity. His astonishment over the first time Mi-Na uses her tongue to kiss him lasts for days: he is shown asking a stranger, "Sir, have you ever kissed? Do you stick your tongue in the mouth when you kiss too?" Nor does he understand modern technology in the context of dating. When Mi-Na, standing next to him, dials his cell in order to give him her number, he answers saying, "I'm busy, can I call you back later?".
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Release date: 14 August 2012
EAN: 4895050875229
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