Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Jithin K Mohan Starts of as an ordinary South Korean romantic drama then took turn into something that is close to films like Friends With Benefits and No Strings Attached but then showed that it is much more than any of that. The similarities to the mentioned films stay only in the outline of the film as the difference in culture plays a big part there. It avoided the complexities of infidelity and showed the melancholic happiness that is found by the confused people who can't act above what the society is forcing upon them. The emotions are conveyed very subtly while the trivial events and the intimacy is portrayed in a straightforward manner without too much manipulation. The director being a former poet seem to understand exactly how to deal with real emotions.

shu-fen Hip hip hurray! Quite a number of modern Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese women should feel pretty happy after seeing the retributive act of Yeon-hee to "men". She fulfils many women's wishes of money and sex, though not from one body but two (or even more if one dares ^-^): getting hold of her doctor husband's money, social status and the sexual satisfaction with Joon-young, in addition, without being noticed or caught.Though achieving better economy and international status, South Korea is basically a patriarchal, Confucius and conservative society where every family tries hard to keep everything in harmony, no matter true harmony or artificial. In general, women still don't have many to choose for their life, to have a "capable" (money + well-respected job like medical doctor or lawyer, and so that's why Joon-young is the odd man out on Yeon-hee's marriageable-men list) husband henceforth a stable family is still the ultimate destination of their life (even though it is already 21st century today and the tenth planet has been discovered in the Solar System we are living in). Many Korean women struggle to tolerate their husbands' affairs, no matter that's long or short term fun because financially they maybe depend on their husband to have a better or even luxurious life, or they just don't want to lose face even the marriage has become nominal. Seeing Yeon-hee's devilish but "elegant" machinations, the repressed women may give their cheer and applause.The wedding at the beginning is a telling symbol that "marriage" is the pillar shoring up the society and human relationship. People still holds the thought that the elder in the family should be married off before the other younger ones. Joon-young somehow is true to himself, he doesn't want to commit to something he doesn't believe, unlike his brother, who is getting married with his fiancée and struggling painfully to keep the dangerous fire burning with his old flame. Hypocrite!Hormone ignites the libido but heart searches for truth. While the campus hunk is in perplexity and her nerd hubby in the dark, she is the one who has the last laugh. Every play has its ending, happy or not. Joon-young needs to think about the ending with this merry wife of another man.Even since the Korean TV soap opera "Autumn in my heart" ("Gaeul donghwa") invaded Hong Kong in 2000, people here suddenly got crazy about the Korean pop culture: TV, electronic games and thousands and hundred of movies. You can see that many Korean movies on show in town but not other places. If Korean movies can reach the international stage, some credits should be given to Hong Kong film-makers, for sure, anyway.A good light entertainment for a Saturday afternoon, it just cost me US$0.13 to rent, what more can I ask for?Oh, by the way, I am eager to know how Germaine Greer views this movie.

khamva I have to comment that this movie is different from the typical asian romance. For one thing, the sex scene was very explicit but tasteful that it fit the story just right. The acting and story line are touching and true to life of the scenario of "I hate you", "I love you" relationship.

Harry T. Yung spoilersThose familiar with the Korean romance that is getting more and more global attention may or may not agree with what I say about Marriage Is A Crazy Thing. On the surface, Marriage seems to be very different from other movies in this genre where a kiss would often seem too explicit an expression of love. Underneath the somewhat shocking explicit sex scenes (for a Korean movie), Marriage is, however, another Korean romance with the characteristic qualities. (I'm not going to repeat the examples I listed in my comments on Lover's Concerto (2002), another Korean romance).The plot of Marriage remotely resembles that of Same Time Next Year (1978) which in turn was adapted from a Neil Simon play, I believe. The resemblance however is only superficial.In Marriage, they meet at a blind date, at the introduction of a mutual friend. He is, however, not a callow youth, nor she a blushing maiden. The first date winds up in a hotel room, as they jump into bed the instant they close the door.As the story unfolds, we see more of the personalities behind the two pleasant looking faces. He is a happy-go-lucky, flirty part-time professor, financially insecure and still living with his parents. Fascinatingly all at once both coy and coquettish, she has a mind of her own, seeking romance but not forgetting financial security. While he shuns any relationship that threatens to become a permanent commitment, she ponders over pursuing such a relationship with him which will likely lead to a life of insufficiency, if not outright poverty.We see there relationship evolve, along a mildly rocky path, until she marries a medical doctor, for obvious reasons. Taking a slight turn, their relationship continues, as they jointly rent an apartment and share whatever time she can snatch from her conventional life. This becomes somewhat reminiscent of Oskar Werner's Interlude (1968), but with his and her role reversed. We see how they gradually come to a realisation that while they have all this time tried to play cool, they care for each other more than they are ready to admit. It is interesting to observe that by the end of the movie, she has not changed much, knowing what she wants, knowing what she can handle, as she had been right from the beginning. He, on the other hand, has lost much of the carefree self-assurance, worn down by increasing consciousness of his own financial inadequacy. For people who have enjoyed the Korean romance genre, Marriage is an interesting variation that brings something new, but at the same time staying within the familiar grounds. Certainly recommended.