[ Seoul General Post Office (2010 ) . Photos of Marzia Poerio]
Scripted television in sixteen points, Korea 2009. Title in English: THAT FOOL, also known under the title The Accidental COUPLE. With Baek Sung Hyun Hong Ji Young, Hwang Jung Min, Joo Sang Wook, Jun Mi Sun, Kim Ah Joong, Kim Kwang Gyu, Lee Chung Ah, Lee Soo Young, Yoon Joo Sang Yun Joo Mi
Han Ji Soo is a famous actress, girlfriend secretly for seven years with Kang Mo Kim, the son of a politician who was a candidate for the office of mayor of Seoul and to carry forward the campaign is betrothed to the son with the daughter of a powerful businessman and important, so Mo Kang Ji Soo promises to marry her when his father will be elected and he can then close the engagement with the other. However, when the entrepreneur discovers the son of the future relationship with the actress, that would be unacceptable to middle-class respectability of the family of politician and of course to the officer who is the girlfriend of the other actually in love with Mo Kang, the the latter's father arranges a fake wedding between Jin and Soo fan of the actress, a postal employee naive and good-hearted, Baek Dong, which lends itself to the trick, not wanting any compensation in return, only to be rescue the actress who idolizes. Kang Mo is not only aware of everything, but it is active and co-author is gradually more and more involved in the plot of the engagement to the point of assuming responsibility for undertaking relief and promise of the future father-in real opportunities for marriage politico-economic daughter to him, whereupon Soo Jun, up to that time available to these deceptions for the sake of Mo Kang is subtracted. A journalist, a political enemy of his father Kang Mo, tells his girlfriend he's official relationship with Jin Soo, so the entrepreneur's daughter breaks off the engagement. Kang Mo tries again to deceive with fake Jin Soo, but now she and Mo Kang has been established more than a relationship of friendship and solidarity. Little by little, the clumsy but sincere Dong Baek, who fell in love almost immediately and nice dell'avvenente Jin Soo, has crept into the heart of the young, so that, as revealed in public deception at the risk of losing their fame and position, Jin Soo finally marries him really.
We were struck by the character of the improbability of the plot engine of reason: a false marriage, difficult to sustain a narrative, yet so similar, thinking of the Western tradition, the commedia dell'arte, for example, and, once suspended disbelief, you get in tune with these characters so well spoken mainly by the two protagonists, Hwang Jung Min in the Goo Dong Baek and Kim Ah Joong in that Han Ji Soo. On the comedy side
, the characterization is well done and quite funny in the growing web of twists and misunderstandings.
same time there is a delicate love story in which the authenticity emerges as the dominant positive value, as opposed to games in the corridors, deception, and perhaps above all the power and wealth. With Mo Kang, Ji Soo crying and is always in a bad mood or anxious, forced to hypocrisy and unable even to notice for several episodes of what is being manipulated and used. Instead, with Dong Baek she gradually opens up emotionally, smiles, regaining a taste for the feelings, actions and behaviors easier and also originating in the construction of his personality, because at first it was dedicated to acting career to help his sick mother and not for fame and greed for material goods.
So we have a clear clash of worlds, not only determined by the contrast class. The world of the poor is generally preferred as the depositary for something more real and sincere, but without much concessions idealization, rather than with the moral and psychological stress of individuals with regard to the Byzantine behavior of those who consider themselves smart and sophisticated, but really corrupt and maneuver with egoism, constantly creating misery around them and for himself. In this one, which in many ways is a modern fairy tale, what prevails in other words, in the end, kindness, selflessness and authenticity in relation to Jungian mask. In the end, those who suffer are those who are more sensitive, even beyond the differences of class, as the official girlfriend Mo Kang, who uses an innocent positive social position and money per promuovere le arti e ha sentimenti genuini.
Sul piano della politica, sembrerebbe suggerita l'ipotesi che la corruzione e l'uso scorretto del potere siano quasi inevitabili. Tuttavia, per l'azione di un giornalista onesto e sotto la catena del destino e dell'autodistruzione che la sete eccessiva di sopraffazione provoca nei personaggi, i progetti inconsulti e distruttivi dei disonesti vengono sconfitti, per lo meno momentaneamente.
Si ha poi una contrapposizione tra il realismo machiavellico, qui chiaramente rappresentato, e l'idealismo della vita basata sull'accontentarsi di quel che si ha e sulla repulsione delle lusinghe dell'eccesso di denaro, con la ricerca al contrario di una contentezza serena che alla fine premia, leading to self-actors in a common dimension which includes the small community of family, friends and acquaintances formed in the meantime.
We can not deny being a party to this emotional drama that entertains in an ironic and sentimental, but also through the tasteful and sensitive approach in the representation of positive emotions.
Surely the television series have a commercial background, they insist on matters of delay and repetitive to prolong the suspense feelings and serve to glue your attention. However, frankly, because they are sometimes criticized for bias almost as if by itself, as the series, were alienating and wrong? We found a THAT FOOL-length film that speaks to the heart and intelligence, as well as not to exclude the action taken by not only the ethical negativity personal but also political ones, throwing messages that ultimately are Democrats and progressives.
[Renato Persol]
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