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[REVIEW] TWENTY (스물), a Hilarious Coming of Age Bromance from South Korea

by Cheryl on April 16, 2015  in entertainmentfilmkoreanreviews

When the opportunity came to watch a screening of the South Korean movie, TWENTY (스물), it was an easy decision. The week before, the lead actors Kim Woo Bin, Kang Ha-neul & Lee Junho had starred in the Korean variety program Running Man and their chemistry on the show remained the same from the movie.

It was delightful, funny and ridiculous.

TWENTY (스물 ) was written and directed by Lee Byeong-heon who also did the screenplay for the 2011 film, Sunny. Before seeing the film I decided to not see all the trailers or who did the movie. After I felt like it was similar to Sunny and was pleasantly surprised to see Lee Byeong-heon behind it with his style of dialogue.

 

The main story is the friendship between three young men. We see them come together because of a girl (played by Jung So-min) and discover a friendship that looks to last a lifetime. We don’t know that yet, but we have a sense that it is very possible.

Woo Bin plays the carefree playboy Chi-jo who is coupled up with So-min, but still has his womanizing ways. He sometimes acts as the “experience” teacher/leader for nerdy Kyeong-Jae (Ha-neul) & starving artist Dong-woo (Junho) with some absurd results. Lee Yoo-bi rounds out the main cast as Kyeong-Jae’s little sister, Soo Hee. There’s no Vampire Idol coupling with Woo Bin and Yoo-bi, but it’s great to see them on screen together again. Min Hyorin has a big cameo that keeps those Sunny vibes alive and well.

The men together wax poetic about their twenties being their middle age. In turn they try to take on the next phase of their life – careers? Love? School? Nope.

SEX.

It’s just they never really quite get there easily.

The journey is one of the most hilarious times I have had at a movie recently. The camera loves these young men. At one point, Ha-neul looked so stunning on the big screen that I fell into a dream-like trance. When you watch the movie, that effect was intentional. Kudos to Byeong-heon for that scene.

I want to see it again. Just to laugh with friends. Or with the strangers in the theater. That’s how much I enjoyed it. 

 

credit: kandykandy 

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Twenty

스물

Review

An enjoyably fresh take on the well-worn genre of South Korean youth movies, Twenty 스물 has much of the same dry humour and insouciant tone that imbued writer-director LEE Byeong-heon 이병헌's first feature, indie mockumentary Cheer Up, Mr. Lee 힘내세요, 병헌씨 (2012), but here packaged in a more mainstream style. Where Cheer Up followed a hopeless, wannabe film director, Twenty follows three losers — initially brought together by a classmate they all fancied at high school — as they try to decide what to do with their lives now they've turned 20.

One is a slacker from a comfy background who just wants to date as many women as he can; another is a wannabe cartoonist from a bankrupt family; the third is a dreamer who becomes bewitched by a wealthy older student at the university where he's a freshman. Without touching any great dramatic depths, but also avoiding becoming just another skirt-chasing boys' comedy, Lee's script loosely strings together their amorous adventures as they follow various women around, try to find a goal at what they think is a crucial period in their lives between being a minor and an adult, and end up blind-sided at every turn.

In an industry which too often follows set patterns, the South Korean film is equally remarkable for what it isn't. There's plenty of sitting around eating and drinking, but precious little male attitude or brawling. There's no actual sex on screen, but a lot of forthright sexual dialogue — often in brief, inter-cut fantasy sequences or by the women in their lives. And the film sustains its breezy tone without lapsing into melodrama in the final stages. The light, vamp-till-ready score by experienced composer KIM Tae-seong 김태성 (Cyrano Agency 시라노; 연애조작단 (2010)Roaring Currents 명량) is a big help in the latter respect, as well as the smooth editing by the equally experienced NAM Na-yeong 남나영 | 南娜咏, who coincidentally worked on several hit movies that Lee had a hand in script adaptation (Scandal Makers 과속스캔들(2008)Sunny 써니 (2011)Tazza: The Hidden Card 타짜 신의 손).

However, it's the easy screen chemistry between the three leads — who accounted for much of the movie's local success — that keeps the film lightly surfing along, thankfully free of the male posturing and quotidian bullying that afflict so many South Korean movies. (The only real fight in the whole movie is near the end, and staged as a slo-mo comedy.) As the layabout womaniser who's the de facto leader of the trio, model-turned-actor KIM U-bin 김우빈 | 金宇彬 is much more characterful here than in The Con Artists 기술자들, partly because his role is written as a send-up of a lothario. Boybander LEE Jun-ho 이준호 | 李俊昊, who had a small role as a gang member in surveillance thriller Cold Eyes 감시자들 (2013), blends easily into the ensemble as the wannabe cartoonist from a poor background, while actor-singer GANG Ha-neul 강하늘 | 姜河那 (one of the musicians in C'est si bon 쎄시봉) is especially strong as the shy university freshman who falls for a poised fellow student.

The boys' women are all individually drawn, especially by TV actress LEE Yu-bi 이유비 | 李侑菲 as the cheeky younger sister of the student who fancies the cartoonist, and JEONG Ju-yeon 정주연 | 鄭珠蓮 as the wannabe actress in whom the layabout meets his match. Among several guest roles by older actors, PARK Hyeok-gwon 박혁권 | 朴赫權 (the hero's aide in military romantic drama Obsessed 인간중독 | 人間中毒) is amusing as a weary film director.

 

credit: filmbiz

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