And "The Lie of Desire" (also translated as "Time") A Korean movie about the huge troubles that plastic surgery brings to a pair of young lovers.
Ji Woo and Se Hee are a pair of lovers. The two fall in love with each other on a blind date, and there will be some conflicts at the same time. In particular, Se Hee is not confident about his looks, and is worried that her boyfriend Ji Woo will fall in love with other women who are more beautiful than him. She may not know that Ji Woo doesn't really care about other young women. He loves her, including how she looks now.
This conflict has risen to the extreme because of a small incident in the cafe. Zhiyu and Shixi were chatting in a cafe when they suddenly received a call. It turned out that two beauties on the side of the road had hit Zhiyu's car due to poor parking skills. Zhiyu immediately went to deal with it. Through the glass window of the cafe, Se-hee saw the communication between Ji-woo and the other two strange women completely, and was extremely dissatisfied with the actions of Ji-woo and the other party, such as exchanging business cards, helping the other party to park, and opening the door for the other party. It developed into a verbal attack on two other unfamiliar women.
Then, Shixi made a bold decision: plastic surgery.
She wants to make Ji Woo more satisfied with her appearance through plastic surgery.
Half a year has passed. Ji Woo, who has been thinking about Se Hee, finally meets Se Hee after plastic surgery in a cafe.
However, Shixi at this time is already an unrecognizable Shixi after plastic surgery. In order to meet Ji Woo, she applies for a job as a waiter at that cafe and looks for opportunities to get close to Ji Woo. She wrote a card composed of N "I love you" in Zhiyu's familiar handwriting, and asked a child to bring it to Zhiyu. This made Ji Woo overjoyed, he knew that Se Hee was still alive and still thinking about himself. However, he could never see the past Shixi again. Even though he has the first love with Shixi after plastic surgery, he is still immersed in the thoughts of Shixi.
This made Shixi extremely dissatisfied. She doesn't understand why she has become more beautiful than before, while Ji Woo still misses her past self? Why did I make such a big decision to have plastic surgery, but lost the love that my sweetheart once had for me?
When Ji Woo finally understood the truth and finally figured out that the cafe waiter in front of him was Se Hee, who he once loved deeply, he was angry! He didn't understand why Shixi had to go for plastic surgery behind his back, and why should he replace it with a face he was no longer familiar with?
In addition to his anger, Zhiyu also started a revenge plan to use his own way to return to his own body. He's also going to have plastic surgery.
However, his facelift is very different from Shixi's facelift. That is, Shixi performed plastic surgery without his knowledge, but he performed plastic surgery without Shixi's knowledge.
So, what is presented to us is a completely different scene. Ji Woo didn't know that Se Hee had plastic surgery, so she just looked for Se Hee everywhere, or dated other women to relieve her loneliness. As for Se-hee, she suffered more because she knew that Ji-woo had plastic surgery. Because she knows that Zhiyu has become a stranger, she must pay attention to every unfamiliar face, and try to find out whether the other is Zhiyu after plastic surgery, and even verify it by sleeping with him.
However, in the vast sea of people, it is easier said than done to find a new Zhiyu? Se-hee is finally haggard and almost mad. And when she finally found Zhiyu who was following her and chased after her, until Zhiyu was accidentally killed by a car, Shixi finally tasted the tragic result that the people of the past had gone on a yellow crane. Sad, she walked into the plastic surgery hospital again, and completed her transformation from a beautiful woman to an ugly woman. Because she knows that no matter how beautiful or ugly she is, the beloved Zhiyu will not be able to see it.
That's the transformation that time brings to the young lovers.
The film’s narrative is natural, the conception is ingenious, and the editing is reasonable, and the knowledge and ignorance of plastic surgery make the whole film full of suspense, so that the audience can’t help following the footsteps of the hero and heroine, to visit the other half of their lives, to experience their innermost feelings. That anxiety, urgency, helplessness, disappointment and pain.
Two characters, three plastic surgery, and a sad ending, clearly convey the life thinking that the film wants to reveal to us: the reason why the other party loves you must be because they have accepted you from the outside to the inside. Don't make big changes to your appearance and appearance without the other person's knowledge, otherwise, even if you think you have become more beautiful than before and have made up for the previous shortcomings, the other person may not be able to accept it. Because, the other party is only in love with the natural you in the past.
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