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Just why.... [Spoiler!!]


... can't the Koreans ever make it a happy ending? Do they love tragedy that much?? Man...

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A Love was set to get a high ranking on my favourite asian film list, until the last half. It ticked all of my boxes with its tale of first/true love, starting from childhood, with added drama as the lead struggled to protect his love from rape-happy gangsters. But then, without good reason, his girl stopped contacting him and left his life... after getting him chucked into jail for saving her, and the plot edged towards its Romeo & Juliet *beep* ending. The random reappearance of the rapist gangster and implausible/unexciting action at the end only added insult to injury.

Half great film, half typical Korean melodramatic rubbish. "Man...", indeed...

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