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Originalname:
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오싹한 연애 | Ossakhan Yeonae
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Also known as:
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Spellbound (International English title) / Eerie Romance (literal title)
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Release Date:
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1. December 2011
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Director:
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Hwang In Ho
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Writer:
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Hwang In Ho
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Producer:
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Ahn Young Jin, Ahn Sang Hoon, Lee Won Tae
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Cast:
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Son Ye Jin, Lee Min Ki
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Plot
One day,
while performing magic on the street, Jo Goo notices a woman (Yeo Ri) in the
audience. He follows her and asks her if she wants to take part in his show.
One year
later his show is a big success. Yeo Ri performs as the ghost in the show,
however no one knows that she actually can see ghosts.
Jo Goo
finally manages to get her go drinking with the crew. And... let’s just say... it
ends with her ripping his cloths off.
After a
while he discovers her secret of being able to see ghosts.
He figures
out that she has trouble with dates and decides to help her and introduces her
to someone. It would’ve worked out for those two, if it weren’t for a certain
ghost. (GHOOOOOOST!!)
Afterwards,
they get to know each other better and even go on dates, which leads to
pointless shirt ripping again and sharing the same bed!
(Insert
pointless subplot with returning girlfriend from France here.)
So, they’re
together now. (Yeah, I don’t really have a clue...) and after a weird dance ,
they sleep together. (Wow, that was...sudden...)
But evil
ghost doesn’t want them to be happy and wants to kill Jo Goo off. It all
reaches it’s climax at the show and Yeo Ri nearly drowning and Jo Goo floating.
But Yeo Ri
gives the ghost back what’s hers and gets free and Jo Goo falls down and is unconscious.
Yeo Ri
wants to leave to Oslo and we have that airport scene. But...she...gets on the
plane???(WTF? IT’S ROMANCE/COMEDY!!) Oh, I guess she didn’t get on the plane
after all and creepy ghost is on the plane. She tries to sneak off but is
caught by Jo Goo and they kiss and creepy ghost is watching them. THE END!!!
Conclusion
Firstly, it’s
really fun to watch. I mean, for Yeo Ri it was the first time having a
boyfriend and she acted sometimes really unsure but then very confident, too.
That lead to some funny scenes. Also Jo Goo’s brother was funny, how he wanted
to give advices to his younger brother about love. But it looked like he has no
clue about what he is saying. Here: A big compliment to the cast. They did a
great job.
One thing,
that wasn’t so good, was the time that tells us what’s happening. I know it’s a
movie and you have only 90min to use. So it happened that they made huge jumps
like suddenly they’re together. I asked myself: “What? How did this happen?”,
and then I went a scene backwards but there wasn’t any clue. Or the fact that
Jo Goo had another girlfriend before Yeo
Ri. That girlfriend went to France, came back, caught them how they slept
together in the tent. What happened to her? Did Jo Goo broke up with her? It’s
never explained in the movie. And that’s not all. There were other scenes that
just felt weird or unexplained. For me it looked like that the whole story was
made for a drama but they had to make a movie out of it for whatever reason.
