Marriage Is A Crazy Thing is a film that talks about how love conquers all in the most unusual situations. Society in Korea deems that marriage must be complete before age 30. Marry a man, and make love with another! Joon-young gets a blind date for being the best man at a friend's wedding. He's a charming and smart college lecturer who believes in free sex. Yon-hee is a daring and sexy lighting designer. Through a long relay of superficial questions, they get drunk. They figured it'd be cheaper to get a motel room than to get a cab.They go all the way. They both expected different things from each other. Yon-hee wanted to marry a well-to-do doctor and keep Joon-young on the side for sex. Will she be successful? The movie is about two people that met on a blind date that never want to admit that each has already fallen in love with each other after spending a one-night stand. Or in other words, it is about two people who don't want to take their relationship to the next level after being engaged in a fling. I think that a better title for this film is Love Is A Crazy Thing. The acting was great. Kam Wu-Sung,who plays an English professor, shows that he does not need to over-act to sympathize with his character. While Eum Jung-Hwa,the adulteress, never disappoints as well. The film started slow but the two lead characters were able make it interesting. This film is another reason why Koreans will always be considered as one of the most creative when it comes to world cinema.Highly recommended and it deserves an excellent rating for me.

Marriage Is a Crazy Thing is poet-become-director Yu Ha's second feature, starring Corean pop star Uhm Jung Hwa, now a veteran in the pop scene.Yu, who also wrote the screenplay, crafts a story about a man, Junyoung, and a woman, Yeonhee, who meet on a blind date and begin a love affair, which only becomes complicated when she gets married. While I think many that watch this film will see a film about a woman who gets to "have her cake and eat it too", in terms of marrying for money and having a lover on the side (see the Eagles song, "Lying Eyes"), the protagonist is actually the man and I read it as a story about a guy who's both too stupid and cynical to understand this woman that he's become attached to.The film features many cute moments, including times where the two pose as newlyweds or a married couple, which only seems to spike the irony in my mind that the main character doesn't seem to get. And so it appears to be a sort of tragedy and I read it as such. The photography is modern, clean and with a few touches of flourish in an otherwise classical style. The acting is believable and the story is interesting, but not quite engrossing. There are also a few lovemaking scenes with explicit dialog and a very mildly kinky twist.I think I was most impressed with how neat the entire package is, from a well drafted story, to developed characters, all the visual and audio elements well put together and a rather interesting message that, I feel, is subtle enough that not everyone might get it. As such, I have to say that this was surprisingly enjoyable to watch and left me with a few things to think about as well, as I reach the upper years of my 20s, getting ready to step into the 30s that the principles live in. Recommendable (to mature audiences, of course). 8/10.

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.

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.