My Sassy Girl (aka: Yupgi Girl)

Starring: Jun Ji Hyun, Cha Tae Hyun
Director: Kwak Jae Young
Studio: PMP Entertainment
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Awards: The Best Dramatization Award and The Best Actress Awardat the 39th Daejong Film Festival, the Best New Actor Award at the 22th Chongryong Film Festival

Synopsis:

My Sassy Girl (aka: Yupgi Girl)

The Korean word `Yupgi' means ''to be curious about and search for creepy and uncanny things or events.'' But it has become a most fashionable pop culture code word, meaning anything nonsensical and implying something creepy but cool and funny. It's become a buzzword in Korea in recent years, especially in cyberspace. Kim Ho-Sik's hit serial story on the Internet, [Yupgi Girl], surely played a critical role in spreading and wedging the word ``yupgi'' into the collective consciousness as the hippest culture code.

Yupgi Girl, starring Cha Tae-Hyeon and Jeon Ji-Hyeon, is a film adaptation of Kim's Internet serial of the same title. The movie follows Kyon-wu (Cha's) narration, in which Jun Ji-Hyeon is called ``the girl.'' (This presumably lovely female principal, strangely, doesn't even have a name, although she is the person who commits herself to all those yupgi demeanors.) Kyon-wu saves a girl who was apparently about to be crushed by an oncoming subway train.

What made that sleek girl with glowing long hair and white face almost throw her life away in front of a subway train? Alcohol.

As a complement to for this yupgi girl who throws up, dead drunk, on the wig and then on the very bald head of an elderly man in the subway, who becomes angry, hits him with her fists and shouts abusive words at him, Kyon-wu is a light-as-air character who is ready to serve this too high- spirited but pretty girl.

The lively, sprightly, refreshingly charming actors, Cha and Jun, are the reasons to go to see this film, which is full of light-hearted laughter for the first 100 minutes before jumping ahead three years into a farfetched leap of plot for the last 20 minutes.


First Half - Meeting 'My Sassy Girl' on the subway!
I kept my eyes on a girl she was tipsy, but cute. But the way her body shook did make me a little nervous. Then finally・ Ooh.. ooh.. Eck! Oh, no. On top of the bald man's head, in just an instant, she did the deed and the subway got all stirred. And after throwing up everything, the girl turns to me with a hazy look and says, "Honey! Uh・ Ooh・ Honey・ Eck!" Clunk! The pain of being dumped must've been too big for her. My heart aches for her and a chilly breeze blows in my heart. Right! Let's try to heal the girl's pain!
She's a mucho-tough girl and going out with her is tremendously scary・but fun.

Second Half - It hurts to think of losing her・
These days, she laughs a lot. It makes me happy beyond words to watch her smile so brightly. I'm not sure if I've been any help to her. I don't think I ever protected her properly. I feel that the time for me to leave her is coming up. And today, we put our feelings for each other in a time capsule and set the timer to two years later. On the day we open the time capsule, we will verify our feelings for each other. We're breaking up till that day・

Overtime - My love has not yet ended.
I've heard that people who are destined to meet again, will meet again someday. And I strongly believe that 00000we will.