Rules of Dating
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- Movie: Rules of Dating
- Revised romanization: Yeonae-ui mokjeok
- Hangul: 연애의 목적
- Director: Han Jae-Rim
- Writer: Go Yun-Hui, Han Jae-Rim
- Producer: Cha Seung-Jae
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- Release Date: June 10, 2005 (South Korea)
- Runtime: 118 min.
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
Lee Yoo-rim is a high school English teacher. He's cute, clever... and shameless. Choi Hong is a student teacher, even though she is one year older than Yu-rim. She's cynical and always plays hard-to-get when a man shows interest in her. While going out for drinks one night, Yu-rim suddenly tells Hong that he wants to have sex with her. Hong is hardly impressed. And so begins a battle of will and wits, both between each other and within themselves, as both Yu-rim and Hong are unsure of what each other wants and what they want themselves. Dating and desire mix explosively. What is the point of this strange relationship? What is the object of their desire?
Cast
- Park Hae-Il - Lee Yoo-Rim
- Kang Hye-Jung - Choi Hong
- Lee Dae-Yeon
- Park Grina
- Seo Young-Hwa - language teacher
- Choi Jae-Hwan
- Kim Se-Dong
- Woo Ki-Hong
- Jung Young-Ki - student teacher
- Lee Hyun-Jung - Hong's mother
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Ki Says:
Mar 16 2012 9:44 am
Very good film that is set up as a typical K romance/comedy, but is at its heart a well thought out film dealing with relationships, gender inequalities, sexual harassment and invasion of privacy issues. Most of the characters in the film have flaws (gee kind of like reality) and the boundaries of right and wrong are usually never as clear as one may expect. Questionable things that Lim did to Choi; nearly raped her, repeatedly propositions Choi even though she has a fiance, uses his authority at work to try to get Choi to go out with him, goes through all of Choi’s personal items the first time he is left alone in her apartment. Charming fellow eh? Well in the same way that Choi’s choice of words, when confronted by investigators, skewed their view of what happened between them, listing these negative facts about Lim gives the same type of skewed impression of that person. The guy is definitely no saint and he has more than his share of faults yet he is far from what those details may lead you to believe about him. As far as their relationship is concerned, a good indicator on when their relationship started to develop is given early in the film. Notice the scene where Choi is shown unsuccessfully trying to fall asleep next to her doctor boyfriend. She suffers from chronic insomnia caused by traumatic events from a prior relationship. Yet in the next scene, Choi is shown sleeping soundly on the bus sitting next to Lim, while going on a field trip with their students. Some of Choi’s negative qualities would be that she may be somewhat shallow, has fallen for married men in the past and is somewhat of an oppurtunistist. Even with these negative faults, Choi & Lim were compatible and the questionable manner in which their relationship unfolded is something left for the audience to think about, particularly what are the boundaries / rules in dating?. On a side note, damn did those clams look delicious in the restaurant! Also, props to the cinematography, enjoyed the hand held camera style employed by director Han Jae-Rim. Really gave the sense of being a third party observer while Kang and Choi’s relationship unfolded. Rules of Dating is a thought provoking film that may not sit well with easily offended people, but for others they will find that the film is an absolutely compelling movie.