Release date: June 2012
Min-soo
and Hyo-jin are doctors working in the same but they have a huge problem: if
the hospital discovers their sexual orientation—they are both gay—it would mean
the end of their job. Their solution: get married to each other, purely a
marriage of convenience, and live across the hall from each other with their
respective partners. It seems like a workable solution, but trying to pass off
their marriage as real to their families and, eventually, the world at large,
proves more difficult than they had hoped.
A very fun
film to watch, also a very annoying one. The earth-moved-and-angels-wept
cinematic effects for romance—in this film, between two men—were a hoot to
watch. On the other hand, too many of the plot twists were unlikely and seemed
comic-bookish. The hyper-femininity of most of the gay male characters in the
film got to be a bit cloying to watch, giving the film an anti-gay feeling, a
surprise considering the director
Kim Cho himself is a “spokes director”
for the gay community and outspoken in his views.
My take: 3 stars
Five gay
friends discuss “sham marriages”,
marriages
to keep one’s sexual orientation a secret
from an
intolerant society (Kim Dong-yoon, Park Jeong-pyo,
Park
Soo-young, Kim Joon-beom, and Lee Seung-joon).
