Directed by: Lee Song-hee / 이송희
Release date: November 2006
Su-min the orphan becomes and adult and leaves the country orphanage to start a life working in Seoul where his boss, Jae-min, falls in lust with him. Su-min seems obsessed with being independent, or obsessed with something: he leaves his factory job to get away from Jae-min, preferring to work in a gay whorehouse. The film covers their romance, good times and break-ups. It covers their good sex (graphically). Jae-min, the scion of a rich family, is being pressured by his mother to marry and created some babies. So-min keeps going back to the whorehouse. Can they find happiness?
Two people fall in lust and
have their ups and downs: it was a romance, only starring two men instead of a
man and a woman. The film offers some genuinely appealing portrayals of young
gay men, most specifically that of the second young gay orphan who comes to
town and is entranced, daily, with the beauty of the city and city life. So-min’s
motivations remain obscure in the film and Jae-min lost all sympathy, for me,
when he chooses to mislead a woman into becoming his bride, a cruel and
heartless trick. Scenes are frequently shot in the labyrinthine, claustrophobic,
green-tiled walls of the gay whorehouse, the filmmakers’ statement of… what?
My take: No stars
The boys walk the halls on
their way to meet a new john.
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