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6 Years in love

Genre: Romance
Starring: Kim Ha-Neul, Yun Gye-Sang, Shin Seong-Rok
Release date:2008
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English

SYNOPSIS:

Nothing special is a keyword for Da-jin (Kim Ha-neul), a hard-working editor at a publishing company, and her boyfriend Jae-young (Yoon Kye-sang), an equally diligent home shopping producer. Six years ago, they began to date. Two years ago, they started sleeping together. Now, they are next-door neighbors, but the wall separating their houses does not have any significant function. They virtually share their rooms — and bedrooms at night. They know each other inside and out so much so that they begin to feel a bit bored, and the magical sparks and excitement is already gone…Their relationships seem to have passed a stage where something special is at work.

REVIEW:

What “Lovers of Six Years” does well is to depict problems that occur in personal relationships involving co-habitation without the commitment of marriage. Primarily, the positives of each other’s character becomes taken for granted, while the flaws of each other’s character becomes magnified. The film also features two engaging performers able to bring their characters to life. Ha-neul Kim seems to be a natural in the film’s more comedic moments and able to bring a sense of dignity during the film’s more dramatic moments. Co-star Gye-sang Yun (former member of K-pop group G.O.D.), had the more flawed character of the two (e.g. troublemaker), but he was able to make the audience remember the character’s stronger points more so.

There were quite a few smaller blemishes in the film to keep it from becoming a more memorable commercial film like “Singles.” Supporting characters, primarily Da-jin’s friend Mi-yeong (Ji-young Ok) and Jae-young’s friend Min-hae (Dong-won Seo) were given prominent screentime during the early portions of the film and mysteriously disappeared in the second half of the film. This gave the impression that they were given more prominent roles in the original script and consequent re-edits removed their scenes in a not so transparent way. Also, happens a lot in Korean Romantic-Comedies, the outside romantic interests of the main characters felt like thin cardboard characters while the main characters are given fleshed out three dimensional characters. This out of balance treatment between main characters and supporting characters gives the film a generic quality, where supporting characters blend in with supporting characters from other films and ultimately the distinctive qualities of the film becomes lost. Lastly, when the film turned more dramatic (and you knew it will if you have ever seen more than one Korean Romantic-Comedy), the film seemed to get sluggish, needing more dramatic oomph to wake it out of its stupor.

By the time the end credits roll around, you are treated to a fairly attractive film with engaging main characters. Ha-neul Kim in particular appealed in the film. With that said, the second half of the film seemed to drag on longer than wanted, while the film’s lighter & funnier moments from the first half were solely missed. Younger couples involved in lengthy personal relationships, will most likely identify with situations depicted in “Lovers of Six Years” and given abundant chatter material for the next time they sit together in a cafe. Not a bad thing at all.

From YesAsia

RATING: 7.5/10

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Friday, June 27, 2008

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