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8/10
A frank look at geriatric love
pinkybanana200015 November 2013
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****THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**** This is a movie about an old couple who found love with each other after losing their respective partners. It takes place in a run-down undeveloped part of a Korean city. The interesting part is that the old are like you and I: they enjoy sex, they fight, and they care for each other.

This is true love. It is deep, committed and satisfying. The scenes tended to be so long you could remember all of them without trying. The entire movie is only slightly longer than an hour. If events unfold too slowly for some, consider the age of the characters. There isn't much to do other than household chores, keeping each happy/satisfied, and generally lounging.

They sleep on a mattress on floor, and there is almost no furniture, so you can assume they do not have the means for too many outings.

Two things strike you: there is a lot of sex between this couple, and you need someone as you grow older. Shorn of all the trappings of wealth and distractions, you observe their life at the most basic level. You should find nothing wrong with that.
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3/10
enigmatic "plot." Episodic glimpses (often, sexually graphic) of an old married couple, built around the lyrics of "Youth Song."
mergen12 May 2007
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I don't speak Korean, so I watched this film with English subtitles. Among the many Asian films I've watched, this has to be the most bizarre. It has an ethnographic quality, bringing "Nanuk of the North" to mind. "Too Young" maintains a tight focus on two or three scenes, and its two 70+ characters, a man and his wife. The film drags, especially during its protracted, grainy, low-light, love-making scenes. I grew bored and giggly--surely not the filmmaker's intent, which seems to have been to portray the notion that old age is not synonymous with loss of vitality and the inability to learn new things. However, what struck me was the emotional immaturity of this couple, not their ability to "get it up." The Korean film "Oasis" was very engaging, but "Too Young to Die" is more a curiosity than an entertainment.
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