If you may recall, I always talk about my love for foreign movies. It’s something to experience, when you get to see a story set in an unfamiliar background.
This critically acclaimed Korean film follows Mr. Kim, a man who recently was dumped by his girlfriend, and has an outstanding debt to loan sharks in the hundreds of thousands. He decides to take his life to end it all by jumping off a bridge in a populated city…and fails miserably. He awakens to find himself on a small island in the middle of the river, able to see passing cars and the cityscape, but unable to reach populated land as he is unable to swim. The rest of the film follows his hilarious efforts to find meaning in his life, as well as the characters who meet him.
Defining this movie as a romantic comedy doesn’t quite wholly encompass the depth of the movie. For the better half of the movie, it focuses on a single man who tries to find hope is everything is goes wrong. It is only later in the second half, that a woman is introduced from afar - not as a lover but as a remote observer.
Long story short?
Netflix is awesome.
