Jaehee and Heungsu are classmates who attended the same university. Our tastes in clubs, alcohol, and cigarettes match very well. However, when they say that they are dating, Jae-hee doesn’t seem to like Heung-su, and Heung-su is gay and has no interest in Jae-hee, a woman. However, even within that, their obvious needs match each other… Jae-hee is anxious because perverts keep snooping into the house where she lives alone, and Heung-su can’t find a proper place to sleep in the huge rent in a big city called Seoul, so if this is going to be the case, friends vs. friends. The idea is that we should live happily together for once. Despite being clearly a man and a woman, Jae-hee and Heung-su are clear friends and become each other’s roommates.
During the 10 years they lived together, Jaehee and Heungsu continued their romantic relationship. While Jae-hee meets several men, Heung-su develops a good but unstable relationship with only one man. So what exactly is the ‘law of love’ that this movie talks about in the title? Is the movie, because of Jae-hee, pushing us away by telling us to meet many different people and not to conform too much to others? Or, because of excitement, are you trying to get along with the other person, even if it means killing your own ego at times? The title is, but what on earth is this damn ‘love law’ that this movie is teaching us?
As mentioned earlier, the movie shows various aspects of love through Jae-hee and Heung-su. However, the ‘law of love’ that this movie wants to talk about does not exist there. No, to be more specific, the ‘love laws’ that each movie wants to talk about also exist in those descriptions. However, the point is that it is not that side. I simply felt that the ‘love law’ that they wanted to tell us was derived from a relationship where both the subject and the object were ‘me’.
So, in the end, it is a methodological method of love as a concept of discovering and embracing the complete self. According to the story in this movie, Jaehee ultimately discovers herself as she is rather than defining herself within her relationships with others. And the same goes for Heungsu. The completion of Heungsu’s love method goes beyond acknowledging one’s gay self-identity to no longer being ashamed of it. And it is not only the position of the minority called queer. Don’t all of us who watch movies, whether we’re queer or not, have some aspect of ourselves that we don’t want to reveal, much less admit?
Although I am still young, I feel like I am learning more about myself little by little after living my life for over 30 years. It’s amazing. It takes more than 30 years for you to learn about yourself, not other people. I don’t even think that what I’m feeling about myself right now is everything. Even I, who am still in my 30s, do not know myself as fully as I am.
To those of you in the early stages of life who are still floating around this metropolis looking for yourself. It seems as if he is speaking. It’s a somewhat obvious textbook comment, but isn’t the best way to love in life not to wander around looking for it but to just acknowledge and embrace yourself? You are not somewhere in this wide city. You have been inside yourself for a very long time, very much as you are.
/ Eonhee Lee
