Starring: Kim Sun Ah, Gong Yoo, Kim Su Roh, Lee Hyun Woo
Year: 2004
Rating: 4 (max 5)
Honestly speaking, I bought this after watching ‘My Name Is Kim Sam Soon’ because I heard that there were a couple of very ‘revealing’ scenes in S-Diary for Kim Sun-Ah and because she gained weight for the Korean version Bridget Jones Diary, I wanted to see how sexy this woman can be. Sure, there are tons of pictures I can find off the Internet but there’s nothing like watching the real thing to determine how sexy and tantalizing a woman can be. So, there you go…I bought the movie.
First a background about the movie. This Korean movie’s focus in on the love and sex life of a normal Korean woman who will give everything for love. She is constantly on a look-out for real love but every time she thinks she’s found it, she lost it. But this lady keeps a diary (a very detailed one) about all the dates, times, number of times, level of satisfaction and extent of each of her sexual encounters. ..not for malicious intentions but because she wanted to record down the moments before she forgets them. Because of what eventually happened to her love and sex life, fortunately for this woman, she did because she is just about take revenge on the men who claimed they loved her yet didn’t. Since they didn’t love her then they would have to pay for her ‘services’.
Marsha’s Take on S-Diary
It’s one of the more daring Asian movies I’ve seen. There’s another Hong Kong movie which was had very deep sexual undertones with Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and (I think) Zhang Zi Yi. There were a couple of sex scenes in them that shocked me. S-Diary comes in a close 2nd.
Kim Sun-Ah who played the leading actress in the show (mainly the only actress) supposedly co-wrote the script based on her own experience. How convenient…but isn’t she telling the whole world about her sex life, then? Well, that made it all the more interesting for me. Three of her boyfriends were featured in the movie and it shows us how the relationship developed and why and how they ended.
What I like about S-Diary: First of all, I like Kim Sun Ah. She is naturally funny and very sporting. There was this one time that a TV station played a prank on Kim Sun Ah and RAIN and she ended up with the shorter end of the stick. In the prank, they tricked both RAIN and Kim Sun Ah into believing that the other party was interested in a public relationship with each other. RAIN, although taken aback, said that Kim Sun Ah is like a big sister to him. On the other hand, Kim Sun Ah revealed that she liked it and would consider a relationship with RAIN and furthermore, when asked if she saw RAIN as a little brother, Kim Sun Ah laughed, “How to see him as a little brother when he has a body like THAT??” When they aired it, she laughed at herself for saying it.
Anyway, back to S-Diary….I like Kim Sun Ah and thinks that she is naturally funny. And on why I like this Korean movie, I would say that it’s partly because of the fact that most of us may have, somehow, been in these types of relationships before and it hits home, you know what I mean? Although it may not be exactly the same (relationship with a priest, seduced by a man who wanted nothing but sex and with a man who refuses to grow up), we can connect with the script.
Hell, it’s based on Kim Sun Ah’s past relationships, isn’t it?! So, no surprise there. And most of us would like to make our bad ex’s pay for their misdeeds as well but never have. So, this fiction provides us an outlet, I suppose. Although the idea isn’t all that refreshing but it was done in a very unique manner which lends the whole movie a creative feel to it. It’s a love story, drama and comedy without losing the essence of each throughout the movie.
It was a highly entertaining movie which reminds us of something very important. In the end, she successfully managed to make her ex’s pay but with all that money, she suddenly remembers that all that money that she finally got cannot erase the memories she had of those relationships…good and bad ones alike and each of those relationships have helped mould her to be the person that she is today.
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