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                                                        January 25, 2014

   "Little Black Dress" (2011)

   This movie is a bait and switch worthy
   of Roger Corman, it's packaged like a
   dorky sex comedy, but really it's a
   particularly painful movie to watch,
   about a quartet of mall rat night club
   party girls, constantly drinking until      Our heroine wakes up
   they vomit, staggering into work hung-      after another blackout,
   over; living in a world where the only      and is not sure where she
   one of the four to succeed in life is       is, or what guy she's in
   the worst of the bunch, the most            bed with.  She spends
   shallow, the most appearance obsessed--     weeks wondering if she
                                               might've gotten pregnant.
   A question that's on their minds: are
   they too shallow, or not shallow enough?

   The Existential dilemma that's laid out
   for these characters is that they're
   clearly too weak to be the protagonists
   of any story, but they're stuck: they each
   have to be the center of their own story.
   So what do they do?

       Despite being painful, it's touch is actually
       very delicate: the main viewpoint character---
       the nascent writer, played by Yoon Eun-Hye of
       "Coffee Prince" fame-- meets this fifth girl,
       who as it happens looks up to the writer as a
       hero...                              
                                                     
       I think the writer essentially rejects her opinon.
       If someone is her fan, they must not be worth much,
       so who cares?
                                                            
       Or it could be the idea is that the writer is
       too self-absorbed to even acknowledge her fan's
       existence...


A point in this movie's favor (despite
being painful, it has many virtues):        There's an occasional boy
it's all about the women. For once, it's    friend on screen, but they're
the men in the story that are just          all worthless in one way or
furniture.                                  another, perhaps even more so
                                            than the female leads.
   And unlike a lot of asian pop
   fiction, the women are not
   ridiculously innocent and prissy
   (What, sex? Oh no!).

          WHERE_ANGELS_GO_NUN_FOLLOWS

   Stories about female friendship,
   with barely a touch of romance
   or romanticism...  these are            There's "Ghost World"
   pretty rare.                            (the comic, not the film).



    The four main actresses:
                            
    Yoon Eun-Hye          COFFEE_PRINCE
    Park Han-Byul               
    Cha Ye-Ryun                                           
    Yoo In-Na             GOBLIN
 
    Writer: Kim Min-Seo (novel), Heo In-Moo

        The fifth actress, playing
        Young-Mi, the fan of the
        Yoon Eun-Hye character:
        Choi Yoon-Young.



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