Jakeob-ui jeongseok (2005)

Director:

Ki-hwan Oh

Writer:

Jeong-gu Shin (writer)

Release Date:

22 December 2005 (South Korea)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Hospital | Audition | Whisky | Seduction | Pawnshop

Cast

Ye-jin Son	...	Han Ji-wan
Il-guk Song	...	Seo Min-jun
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sun-yeong Ahn
Bo-ra Geum
Yeong Hyeon	...	Yang Soo-jin
Mae-ri Lee
Ju-hyeon No
Jun Gyu Park	...	Bong
Yong-woo Park	...	Kang Sung-mo

Also Known As:

Art of Seduction (International: English title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Cheju Island, South Korea

Company:

Chungeorahm Film

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Ying xiong (2002)

A very shallow treatment of a subject that could have been interesting

With a story and screenplay that seems to have been written by a high schooler, 'The Art of Seduction' fails to deliver the romantic, sophisticated experience it tries to bill itself as. The two main characters have the potential to be interesting - both male and female lead are "swinging singles (or in the female lead's case, engaged)", but 'The Art of Seduction' doesn't even try. Shirking from a frank examination of these two characters' personalities, 'The Art of Seduction' eschews anything of substance for a basis of thin, lean stereotype.

'The Art of Seduction' is insulting - insulting to its characters, insulting to men and women, and insulting to its audiences' expectations. It takes the awful beautiful people we all know and plays out their painful interactions while expecting us to idolize them. Ji-wan is an immature, spoiled, manipulative bitch. The viewer is expected to like and forgive her flaws because she's pretty. Min-jun, well, he's exactly the same. Neither are nice people. The "humour" in this film primarily revolve around Ji-wan and Min-jun's outlandish attempts at outdoing each other in the honourable art of lying and manipulation. No character development occurs, and we never learn why Ji-wan and Min-jun are like this. We are simply expected to take them as they are, and not ask questions - they're cute!, and that's all that matters. The copious references to the celebrity of the main actors in azn cinema scenester's reviews may tip you off to 'Art of Seduction's shallowness.

If you're still in high school, you liked Grease, or you are a yellow fever victim, you may like this movie.

Despite its "Romance" tag, this is not a very good date movie.