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Introduction to the plot of "Love's Chromatic Aberration":
Director: Park Jae-ho
Starring: Kim Ji-hyun / Yoo Soon-young
Duration: 104 minutes
Year: 2001
Erotic Type: Extramarital Affair
Entertainment Value: ★★★☆
The use of color-shifted film and exaggerated colors casts a layer of sorrowful emotion over this movie. The setting for the story is perhaps the dirtiest and most sordid place I've seen in all Korean films, yet it still hides a pair of people drawn together like moths to a flame.
In an isolated village stands a dilapidated two-story building with a floor so old and decayed that it has small holes revealing the space below, serving as a perfect peeping hole. Upstairs lives a young boy full of youthful vigor who sees a beautiful but lonely woman living downstairs. Her husband, a security guard, is rarely home and when he does return, he uses her merely as a tool for his sexual desires. The boy, who voyeuristically watches from above, silently falls in love with this melancholy woman. Strangely, the woman never engages in direct contact with her husband during their intimate moments. This drives the boy, who accidentally obtains the key to the downstairs apartment, to finally give in to his urges and imitates the man, having relations with the woman. When the secret is revealed, the woman is moved by the boy's naivety and sincerity, and their love ignites like flames between them.
The film features numerous scenes of voyeurism, masturbation, and various sexual acts, leading to its inevitable rating as unsuitable for children. However, the subtle political undertones present in "Love's Chromatic Aberration" suggest the film has aspirations beyond mere erotica, though not fully realized. The story of extramarital affairs in "Love's Chromatic Aberration" takes place against the backdrop of the 1980 Gwangju Massacre, where hundreds of civilians fighting for democracy were gunned down in South Korea. Each of the three main characters involved in the affair has a distinct social identity: the male protagonist is a wanted student activist, the woman is the daughter of a professor arrested during the Gwangju incident, and her husband is the police officer who forcibly took her years ago. The film concludes with the police officer discovering the affair, killing the escapee, and then committing suicide, while the woman gives birth to the child in her womb before committing suicide by train. The identities of the characters leave much for the audience to ponder, with the abandoned baby perhaps symbolizing the current generation of politically confused young people in South Korea.