A lot of what happens in the movie is bad and makes you feel angry at certain characters but thanks to the ending the lesbian couple still comes out kind of likable. The sex scenes are very wild and explicit but not downright distasteful. Aesthetically, the movie is very pleasing. If you're worried that it's too sad: it's okay. As someone who is emotionally very frail, this movie didn't scar me for life :)
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this is for the people who didn't understand the plot at all
At first I was also confused of the storyline. That's why I have to actually watch the movie again. Based on my understanding of the movie, the wine scene was where the husband was narrating his written novel that was also his own story, story of infidelity to his wife, Junha. He narrated his novel to his wife before he died. So when he and Naru, the mistress got into accident, he expected it to happen. It's his own orchestration. He orchestrate his death. He chose to die in a car having sex with Naru than in pain due to his liver problem. That's the starting point of the story. Naru living with Junha to atone her wrongdoing with the ghost Jane is part of Jane's novel. The lake scenes is part of the novel too. So, Jane knew all along that Naru is in love with Junha that's why he loathe Naru. The sex at the last part of the movie is an explanation why Jane cheated on Junha. The S&M relationship Jane plays withJunha is different with Naru. With Junha, she assumes the role of submissive partner while with Naru, he is the dominant partner. The sex between Junha and Naru followed simultaneously by sex of Junha and Jane AND Naru and Jane is a dream or thought processing of Junha according to the novel. When she woke up she told the ghost Jane that he can leave which signals the letting
go process. Near the end of the movie, Junha is reading Jane's notes about his novel. It says Junha says Jane appears on her dream and that he keeps telling her she has to understand what happened. Junha is finally putting aside her husband's memento including the ring. The ending is an open ending where the real Naru with bruises appeared on the door
steps asking Junha to let her in. She brought a plant too.
I repeat everything with ghost Jane and Naru in one house is the story included in Jane's novel.
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Great little movie; better than the original short on Five Senses of Eros (2009)
The cinematography is great on this movie, and the actors/actresses do a good job making you feel they are who their characters were supposed to be in the movie!The first person to review this movie thought that it was strange and "You will need to suspend disbelief while watching this."
You have to forget linear time to understand what is going on in this movie!
if you can do that, you can piece together what happened, not presented in chronological order, and what the movie is trying to say.
This is similar to many love triangles where a man is married to a stoic, dependable but DULL woman, and he cheats on her with a bubbly, undependeable, but EXCITING womans in order to feel young again...You could compare this movie with The Stud andThe Nympho (1980). However, if you don't listen closely to what is being said by Kang Na Roo in this movie, mispelled on some sites as to Na-ru (Kim Hyo-jin) you miss understanding what was actually happening, and after finding out what was/is happening you can also understand why Lee Jung Ha (Kim Hyo Jin) finally told Mini Jae-in (Hwang Jung-min) that he could finally leave.
I didn't like the non-chronological sequence of events until I figured out how the director had set this movie up, the it was both enjpoyable and made more sense after that happened.
The original short, part of Five Senses of Eros, did no tmake much sense without this extended version being released, in my opinion.
I disliked it until my brain realized the non-sequential character of the film
Read my review of The Stud andThe Nympho (1980) for more about the dualistic nature of women.
The nude love sceens were very tasteful and well-thought through and executed, but still wild.
Again, once you figure out what is really happening, it makes so much more sense and is also more enjoyable!
RE-WATCH: Definitely!
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