My Sassy Girl: Viewer Comments

"My Sassy Girl" is one of my favorite films of all time. The funny thing is that you actually get more out of the film watching it multiple times. There are so many tie-ins that are laced in the movie that you won't recognize it until you watch it the second, third...time.

For those that don't know the story was written on the Internet and then made into a film. The story has a great combination of comedy and romance. The acting was spectacular: Cha Tae Hyun's facial expressions drives the movie. The chemistry between the main characters can be turbulent yet believable; but that's the fun behind this witty movie.

Most people would be content watching it the first time but I challenge anyone to watch it multiple times and not get something new out of the plural viewing. Regardless of whether watching the movie for the comedy or the romance, "My Sassy Girl" will not disappoint.

My Sassy Girl is simply about a extremely odd pair who go through extremely odd situations to overcome odds and find true love in each other. Getting the dvd for only 5 bucks at a local store in chinatown, i really didnt expect quality entertainment. I just wanted something to do over a long weekend so i got the movie, the story starts out slow and i was ready to be disappoited, but the clever comedy inserted in all the right places not only gives more texture to the plot but also binds the film together as a wonderfully crafted comedy romance, to be honest, this movie is the best romance film i have ever seen (that may be due to the fact that im not that big a fan on ramantic films), but even through the painful process of dubbing, it is clear that the acting was great, the music really brought out the mood of each scene, and it really touched me! Compared to all the american romantic comedies (I live in the US), this one is actually not korny, and it doesn't leave with the dreadful after taste that makes you think, man, I really shouldn't of seen that. Instead, this feel makes you laugh, and if you touchy it makes you cry, even if you're not, it touches you, and you'll walk out a believer in true love.

I imagine by now you already have an idea of the plot. The strange thing is: I find I cannot say less of the plot, nor can I explain more. The summaries are quite apt and cover just about the entire essence of the film. Yet nothing can adequately prepare you for what phrases like "bizarre behaviour" and "violent tendencies" TRULY mean in this film. Perhaps the most I can do for the viewer-to-be is to state that it is not an understatement (oh, far, far, from it) either to use the cliché, "spectrum of human emotion", here. I hadn't realised something until I saw this film; it was as if I was physically jolted awake. How much insipid Hollywood/morbid HK fare had I imbibed up till now? In this one film I was brought to contemplate the definition of real love, then flew to feel disgust, revulsion, depression, then soared to laughter and revelation.

I wonder; dare I say it? How dare I call this film - such a film, without any somnolent artistic pretensions, yet art nonetheless - brilliant. We forget that it is terribly easy to bore, but terribly difficult to simply, well, entertain. And how it entertains. This film uses nothing less than the seemingly irreconcilable instruments of absurdity, exhilaration, perversion, wit, terror, love, pain (on EVERY level) and - of course - vomiting. (Lots of it. Lots and lots of it. Lots and lots and lots - sorry. Had to get it out.) Throw in philosophy too: the audience ruminates (almost against their will - they cannot help themselves) on the strange workings of fate, destiny and sheer, dumb, horrible luck. Perhaps the only real complaint I can muster is the pacing - how fast it was. Imagine how it is to hear screams of laughter and then sobs emanating from humans all around me in darkness in intervals of all of - one minute. Throughout all of 137 minutes.

Now, who should I credit for the film? Reviewers always seem to feel the irrepressible urge to find somebody to credit (the synonym of blame, really) but I must confess I feel utterly lacking in that aspect - at least with regards to this film. Was it the director? The actors? Even the SHOES in the show seemed to be doing their part to make me tear in laughter and grief. In other words, all the parts and pieces of this particular puzzle showed their best sides. They fit together excellently - so oddly. How many of us can make another laugh, cry and cringe in one and the same breath? Perhaps this film is something like that one strange love affair in your life you can never truly forget.