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In Hyo-Jeong & Won-jae’s case, Hyo-jeong’s several years older than Won-jae and finds herself always paying for him when they go out. This leads to large credit card debts for Hyo-Jeong. One day, after Won-jae leaves for the army, Hyo-jeong backs into a man’s bicycle and drives him home. The guy starts to take a strong interest in Hyo-jeong.
Before Eun-seok went into the military, he made sure his best friend Ki-sung would watch over his girlfriend Jin-ah. Unknown to Eun-seok, Ki-sung has always had a crush on Jin-ah. As the two spend more time together while Eun-seok is away, their feelings get stronger.
It doesn’t take Bi-ang long to break her promise to Wook. Shortly after Wook leaves for the military she goes to a nightclub and gives her phone number to a guy that sits next to her. While Wook is away, Bi-ang is living in his apartment and soon enough there’s another guy living there as well.
In the case of Bo-rang & Min-cheol, they didn’t make such promises to wait for each other as they weren’t a couple prior to Min-cheol’s enlistment. Min-cheol was in fact dating Ha-na the lead singer of the band “Peacock Green.” Bo-rang is the keyboardist, while Min-cheol is the guitarist. After Min-cheol leaves for the army, Ha-na announces that she is leaving for England. Bo-rang then takes the initiative to visit Min-cheol at the military camp.
Probably due to the inordinate amount of movies coming out Korea dealing with relationships & infidelity I wasn’t all that enthusiastic about watching another one. “Crazy Waiting” does feature a cast of pretty faces, but that’s about it. Perhaps caused by having so many characters in the movie, each and every character seemed like a shallow character profile of what the filmmakers had in mind and nothing more. Making matters worse, the set-up has three of the four main female characters breaking their promises of fidelity to guys who are portrayed as having high character and on top of that — serving their country! How the hell are you supposed to sympathize with those ladies? This may have been an attempt by the filmmakers to reflect reality or bring more realism to the movie, but if that’s reality please give me more unrealistic romanticism.
“Crazy Waiting” does feature a topic not often discussed in Korean films: the toll Korea’s military requirement takes on personal relationships, but the uninspiring script and familiar “My Lovely Week” type of set-up dilutes any freshness that topic brings to the screen. About the only other novel thing I noticed about the movie was when Bi-ang met her date in a DVD Bang (Room). Not sure why, but you never see DVD Rooms in Korean films, even though there’s usually two or three on every major street in Korea. Funny enough, while the couple were making out in the DVD Room the movie that was playing onscreen was “A Good Day to Have an Affair” — a far better film that tackles similar subject. This one is likely to appeal only to big fans of the individual performers.
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