Release date: May 2010
Sae-jin is a country girl, innocent and optimistic. She has come to Seoul to start her new job, only to find the company gone bankrupt and herself unemployed. Her new basement digs are pretty shabby … and then it turns out her next-door neighbor is a gangster! Actually, Dong-chul is an over-the-hill gangster down on his luck but, as it turns out, with a heart of gold. The two strike up a somewhat uneasy but eventually sustaining friendship while she struggles and finds success and he struggles and finds, well, whatever it is that over-the-hill gangsters end up finding to do.
An odd film, the director didn’t seem to know just what he was going for. The gangster parts were brutal, the comedy parts were funny but not that funny, and the melodrama parts, such as Sae-jin waiting in vain in the first snow of the year for her lover to show up, didn’t seem to fit the rest. There was some odd camera work as well that had me wondering what the cinematographer was trying to say. My take: D
Sae-jin (Jeong Yu-mi) takes her cleaned-up neighbor,
the gangster Dong-chul (Park Joong-hoon),
home to meet her dad and pretend to be her fiancé.
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