My Boyfriend is Type B
Director: Choi Seok-won
Year: 2005
Rating: 4.5
Country:
Korea
Being mean to
this film would feel like drowning a kitten in a vat of acid, but this is
the most pointless piece of fluff imaginable. I am a bit embarrassed that
I watched it till the end. But the actress is damn cute. Back at the beginning
of this century Korea was knocking out romances like they were mining for
gold - the fluffy comic teenage ones and the stiff-upper-lip films where
one of them is dying. Christmas in August will leave you desiccated like
a cocoanut on a beach. Back when I was working, I used to go to Koreatown
in NYC and buy all the dvds but I have been sitting on this one for twenty-years
and it still wasn't ready to hatch. Total nonsense and a terrible message
to young women who this film was targeted to. So, report me to the SPCA.
University student Ha-mi (Han Ji-hye) is
unable to snag a boyfriend and her two friends like nothing more than making
fun of her. At a dance class, she is the one who gets stuck with the class
clod. Of course, this is absurd. Han Ji-hye is stunning in a girl-next-door
way. And as sweet as pumpkin pie. Korean males would have to be blind not
be trying to date her. So, there is that. But one day there is a mix-up and
she meets up with Young-bin (Lee Dong-gun) who is almost as cute as she is.
But he knows he is and she doesn't. He is by every boyfriend measurement
a jerk - selfish, domineering, inconsiderate. The perfect boyfriend in a
Korean romance. She is so thrilled to have a boyfriend with an imported car
that none of this bothers her beyond the occasional pout. Whatever
he says, goes. Whatever he wants, he gets. Not sex of course in a film like
this.
Her roommate Chae-young (Shin Yi) tells
her the problem is that his blood type is B and hers is A and the two don't
mix. Over in Japan and I guess Korea, blood type is a big deal in picking
your partner. Like our astronomical signs. She keeps telling Ha-mi to drop
him like a hot rock. But he is soooo cute and she thinks it is fate. And
he continues to be a jerk - not in an abusive way - just unthoughtful and
privileged. Any sensible woman with an ounce of pride should have run, not
walked away from this guy. But that would be a short movie. My guess is that
the filmmakers thought that just putting two attractive people on the screen
was enough.
