Our Love Story (2016)

There’s not much to say that can do this movie justice. It’s beautiful and slow paced,taking its time to unravel the story and personalities of each character that is important to the story line. It shows a wholesome love between two women very nicely, having those giddy moments of them being playful,and obviously sexual moments. But it also shows a more realistic side to romantic relationships, tension, “bickering”, lying,etc. And may I include, the realistic side of being lgbt+, a scene in particular breaks my heart and almost made me want to cry as I also wanted to wipe my feelings of homosexuality away, and it’s the moment where Yoon-ju is drunk, overcome by emotion due to Jisoo acting strange, she pulls her male friend Yeong-ho into a kiss, trying to erase her feelings for jisoo almost or perhaps her homosexuality. From then on, it only gets “sadder”,I won’t get into detail but that should say enough. But despite almost half the movie being lonesome, the ending tied it up well, although not a bad nor good ending, it was left open, leaving the watcher (or Atleast me) feeling bitter sweet, but at the same time content, that Jisoo could apologize and show her actual feelings one last time.

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I really really liked this movie. It starts off with Yoon-ju developing a major crush on Ji-soo. They end up having a sweet relationship, but the twist is their unknown fate. They are both pressured by the people in their lives to meet men and secure a boyfriend. When Ji-soo returns to her hometown, she sort of gives in to that mentality as well, and their relationship grows cold. The ending is very vague, almost incomplete, but this is a very accurate depiction of how LGBTQ couples, especially in Korea, don’t know if their relationship will last forever or if it is fleeting. I think it is a very sad but real message that their LGBTQ viewers can resonate with.

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