K for...

I have an overwhelming obsession of late with Korean films. Korean rom coms actually. They make sense to me in some inexplicable convoluted way. Like the clumsy heroine who's too cutesy sometimes---u know in the korean-cell-phones-karaoke-and-numerous-other-Jap-gadgetsy sort of way. She ALWAYS falls for a very hot chink who she cant get her hands on and the movies don't always end happily. There's an element of reality, a simplicity(not in the storylines, mind you..) and simultaneously an edgy-ness, a Raat-Ki-Rani type freshness that sets them apart from a archetypal Hollywood romance. The leads are imperfect--never gorgeous enough that you can stare at them and ignore their trashy acting(which is the case with most Hollywood films of late) and endings never show disregard for logic and common sense. Watch My Little Bride and 200 Pound Beauty. They're classics.

In other news, Rain like Never Before Rain is pounding on my beloved college. So much so that Term Ends are getting postponed. There are rumours of a cyclone and a tsunami, by the way. If either of them happens, I'm throwing a party...arrangements will be made for it in the afterlife if I get swept away (by chance) in this one.

Tonight: Kate and Leopold. Not in Korean.

Also: Bombay...fuck you maderchods.