Review of Mood of the Day

Shallow & Sleazy The actors were good, but the story line is based on a cliché script used by modern Hollywood. The Hollywood version has a young woman just about to be married to a normal guy after a normal courtship of a couple of years or to her childhood sweetheart. Then she meets a stranger who's a wild and crazy guy (e.g., he shoplifts, engages in petty theft, trespasses, engages in behavior dangerous to himself, her and anyone nearby, e.g., long lingering kisses while he's driving at 85mph) and they fall madly in love in a day or two and she breaks off her engagement, but the story does not continue for more than a day or so. The story is marinated in shallowness. This Korean version is even shallower and adds sleaze to the recipe. Admittedly, the young woman here is in a 10 year relationship that both she and her boyfriend feel is going nowhere, so one does feel it quite right for her to leave the relationship. However, the "hero" in this "romantic", "love" story is a playboy who lives a series of one-night-stand type conquests with innumerable women. He starts his "relationship" with the movies heroine by quickly asking her if she will sleep with him that night which she (correctly) characterizes as sexual harassment. They are "forced" to stay together by a wild contrivance and the next day she characterizes him as very sleazy. The male character embodies all that women used to hate about men and still do - Hollywood movies notwithstanding. However, since he behaves himself at a funeral and is nice to a child for 15 seconds, she decides he's a "nice person" and sleeps with him and they both "fall in love". The movie is the personification of shallowness and sleaze. Any woman who finds this romantic is either very shallow or a poor judge of character and is likely to lead an unhappy life.