Film: Please Teach Me English
"Please Teach Me English"
South Korea: Yeongeo Wanjeonjeongbok / 영어완전정복
Director: Sung-Su Kim (2003)
Original Language: Korean
Cast:
Na-Young Lee, In-Mun Kim, Angela Kelly, Mun Hee-Na, Yeong-Ae Kim, Ju-Bong Choi, Hyeok Jang
Funny, romantic comedy. Couldn’t end my day without watching those. This is the first time i saw a Korean film that includes a foreigner in their cast. Angela Kelly’s an Australian i believe. Anyways, when it comes to characterization, Yeong-ju (aka Candy played by Young-Lee) is very well done. Plain, simple girl who’s working in public service, then got into studying English. When you see hair being done like that (2 pony tails with matching eyeglasses), at first i though that she’s pretty much the nerdy type, but i think she’s the conservative type instead.
Going on, Moon-Su (aka Elvis played by Hyeok Jang), is outrageously weird. When you think of this character, you’d think of what he always wear outside the house including in the English class: coat & tie. Has a story on why he wants to study English. Nonetheless, there’s no way you’d not show any sympathy from these comical characters.
The teacher Catherine Presley (yup she named Moon-Su "Elvis") is quite a hot teacher i admit. She’s perfect for the role because she’s not too much of the authoritarian teacher neither too lax as a teacher. You don’t see an old woman dating Elvis, neither would she be someone who’s younger looking and seductive woman, you get my drift. OH YES! she reminded me of the professors i have here in college here in Toronto… they’re absolutely nice chaps and they’d ask you to call them by their first names (that’s for YOU filipino professors hahaha).
The colour is very nice, i’m always happy to see that in a lot of Korean Films, they make scenes as vibrant as possible. The cinematography is great, you don’t get off too easily from the film. I watched very closely the story and of course the pace does go well.
overall, its a film you’d really love if you’re into romance/comedy, i’d cherish this film because of the issues being tackled there such as the challenges of non-English speakers in studying English as well as how the natives get along with foreigners. i have plenty of friends who had difficulty in learning English.
okay? gotta go!
–jic 005010MMV1008H
