(Reviewed 4.5/5 on letterboxd.com in October 2017)
Hong tackles the sensitive subject of extra-marital affair by using humor to show the absurdity of the situation and especially that of the players. One character talks about having faith, one accuses the male protagonist of being a coward, and that character herself is a hypocrite. The cowards and hypocrites are caricatures that cry out loud and will even admit to their cowardice over a drink of soju. Fortunately, the character with faith including the male protagonists wife will survive and even manage to bring a change in the Coward. Hong's caricatured portrait of this trio gives a larger world view of how societies with faiths have survived centuries unlike many other liberal and licentious endeavors. When you have the attitude that everything is beautiful and that everything happens per God's will, the ignorance will continue to keep you in bliss as it has done for societies over countless millennia. Whether you agree with them or not, these people will survive and more often more peacefully than those without faith.
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