so, the school holidays for the elementary / high school kids have ended – which translates to a battle every morning on the bus with the school kids. thank god they all get off after a few stops.
have been busy the past weekend – i met up with another singaporean (whom i got to know randomly — long story, but the gist is that she contacted me through my blog) who will be here in korea for 1 month for lunch and on a whim we decided to catch a korean movie.
so there we were at the cinema, trying to look for a korean movie, and only one of them seemed to be rather watchable. we bought 2 tickets for 바보 (according to google, the english titles for this movie are “BA:BO”, “miracle for a giving fool”, “miracle of giving fool” and “miracle of a giving fool”), expecting it to be a light-hearted romantic comedy, which turned out to be anything but. it was not bad though, and a pretty easy movie to follow in terms of language.
as the title suggests, the main character (played by cha tae-hyun of my sassy girl) is intellectually-handicapped, and has a childhood love interest (played by ha ji-won) for whom he has been waiting for the past 10 years.
as the plot unfolded with hints that there would be some sort of a many-sided (i think it was 5-sided?) love story that has come to be pretty much synonymous with korean shows, the show unexpectedly concluded with a denouement that left me feeling empty (??), like something — i don’t know what though — was missing or lacking. then again it could be simply because i couldn’t anticipate the ending, which may not be a bad thing really.
it’s not exactly your typical korean love story — there was the romance element, but the theme wasn’t fully developed or explored. it was more about the main character’s life, and his relationships with the people around him.
it was heart-rending, sweet, funny and touching all at the same time. nice. 
so anyway, i got tagged by ivy.
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