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Shy Love

The Korean film Double Patty is very subtle and thoughtful, which is the main reason I loved it. It's also a more realistic view of life for a couple of shy people with very big dreams.

The story revolves around a wrestler named Kang Woo Ram (Shin Seung-ho), who leaves athletics and drifts without purpose, and Lee Hyun Ji (Bae Ju-hyun), an aspiring broadcast anchor journalist who works at a restaurant called Burger from Heaven. Both are extremely shy, which is something that as a lifelong shy person I recognized right off the bat. The two meet when Woo Ram comes in after being attacked, robbed and knocked out, and he orders the two-for-one double patty hamburger special. Each continues struggling through their lives but start to look forward to seeing each other every night at the burger place.

Some of the movie is a little confusing, as not a lot of the nuances or characters' motivations are especially clear. I found if I thought about it I could work out most of what I didn't understand. This is also a romance that is not really a romance; the lead characters hold hands maybe twice and that's all. Yet I thought it was wildly romantic in an emotional and cerebral sense, with these two lonely and isolated souls coming together to help each other just by being there. Available on Viki.com.

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