Aftermath, I realized that this movie was actually based on a French book and even though I never read it (because I canāt read all the French books out there, there are centuries of history), but Iām always glad to see the exchange of cultures. I mean, Occident makes remake of Asian/Est-Asian books or movies, but Orient does it as well. I donāt know exactly where I wanted to goā¦ I think it was just that I was glad that Korean took something from another country and adapted it to their own standard/culture rather than having another Occidental country who rips off Asian culture.
Perfect Proposal is romantic thriller. Ji-Yeon was fooled by a ex-business partner and is stuck in Macau with no money. One day, while she works at the bar, one of her co-worker shows her an ad in which a rich old man seeks a full-time caretaker. To pass her interview, she encounters Sung-Yeol, the son of that very man, who proposes her an offer that she canāt refuse. She can live a lavish life in exchange of helping him out.Ā
I put one huge spoiler in the plot paragraph. Unless you want to know the ending, I advice you to skip all the sentences between the two | [...] |. Aside from that, I tried to keep my review with the less spoilers it was possible, but some might have slip off, so please be careful.
The plot starts quite quickly and gets right into action. Personally, that's the type of start I like, yet I have to admit that, to fully understand the story, you need to give a look at the summary before watching it (for once that a summary is useful!). Because of how it starts and the subject it treats about, the story line is sometimes a little bit weird, but it's such characteristic that makes it so intriguing at first. I mean, it's a type of story that's seen everywhere, but it's exactly what makes it so intriguing. It's a story easy to get into and, as a viewer, the tension never really disappears since you keep asking yourself whether or not they are going to manage to execute their plan and if they do how they would be able to do so. Since it has a well-done intrigue and a constant tension, it has a really few lengths. Yesā¦ You could also say that it has really few lengths because its pace is quite quick. For once, I donāt mean that in a bad way. Everything is rightly justified in the movie, so the fact that things are quite condensed seems totally normal (the female lead has a month to put their plan in execution therefore, she needs to act quickly). I, personally, thought that the progression was rightly made and everything was well-dosed (there wasnāt too much romance or too much drama or was too focused on the intrigue), even though the plot twists are really predictable. The ending was the true flop of this movie for me. In my opinion, it was forceful, rushed and unrealistic |(SPOILER) Basically the ending is that the old man dies and Ji-Yeon is locked up for hi murder, but somehow manages to convince Hye-Jin that sheās innocent so she gets out of jail. Then she realizes that there are evidences of who murdered the old man in a recorder/camera the dog had in his hairpin and the true murderer (no, I donāt intend on saying who it is) is found that way and locked up. Personally, I see such conclusion as if they needed to conclude the story, but didnāt have enough time to wrap everything nicely, so they rushed and condensed everything.| But, overall, it was a good movie that I really enjoyed.
For the characters letās say that thereās three main characters. I will call them by their names rather than their roles (at the opposite of the usual) into the movie because I thought it was a little bit confuse. Ji-Yeon was quite usual as a main character. She was the woman in distress who has no money, nothing to lose and is ready to do anything to āsurviveā. Sheās, also, quite naĆÆve, which made her sometimes so stupid and annoying. She was just following everything Sung-Yeol was saying to her without doubting his orders, even though her conscience was telling her otherwise. I so hated her for that. She was so dumbā¦ And it was because she was too trustful that she became really unrealistic in my eyes. Such attitude didnāt seem to follow the type of woman she was portrayed as through the movie. She never let anyone tell her what she needed to do and always stood for herself until she developed some feelings for Sung-Yeol. For me, Sung-Yeol was a character that quickly stood out. He seemed a bit typical, but there was a lot of unknown about him, so he has a little bit more depth. Yet, I wonāt talk about his personality any further because it would be a huge spoiler and Iām not really fond of that idea. Lastly, among the really important character, thereās the old man (by the way, I have no idea of what his name is, for me heās just the old manā¦) who is the really clichĆ© tyrant that kind of softens with the appearance of a potential love interest. The three of them are the only characters that have a minim progression through the movie. Their changes are quite small, but thatās the only evolution in the movie, so I should be happy about it. Aside from these three characters, there are a lot of really small characters who arenāt that important and just help the story move forward. I should finish with the only character I really like to talk about in thriller, the antagonist. Revealing who he is would be a huge spoiler, so Iāll keep myself from doing so. His personality is well-thought and he can be considered as a ātrueā antagonist. He has his own purposed (even though I find it quite poor) and doesnāt seem to come out of nowhere.
Iāll conclude there. The plot would be worth a 8/10. The characters a 2/5. And the tearjerker factor a 0/5 because there isnāt really tear worthy drama.
