a great piece of work about love in all its various forms

this is a master piece, a very moving film, the script writer Park Hae Young is a deep thinker about human beings and their social order, especially class and gender in South Korean society. The film plays with love taking the form of romance but shows love to be much more complex and bound up with shared memories and shared forms of pain. I was addicted to the unfolding of the story and I am glad it did not end as a celebration of romantic love but showed the convoluted, self-destructive aspects to love as well as its capacity to make life bearable and enjoyable. A complex film dealing with the permutations in human emotions but never removing these from their embeddedness in workplaces, cafes and restaurants, homes, neighbourhoods and kinship networks. truly superb

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