spectrally most diffuse

optandum maxime est, that i conduct a bullet-pointed review of a film that i saw. this is Nae sarang ssagaji, called "100 Days with Mr. Arrogant" for its exposure to non-korean-hearing english-hearing audiences, in whose number i count myself.

1. it is a romantic comedy.  i like this genre of movie because it never profiles sociopaths and it never has matt damon.  
2. i don't know who the target audience is supposed to be.  i don't know very much about which parts of korean society are expected to watch which films.  but it is about some girls in school uniforms and a lazy man who is rich.
3. there are gaps in the narrative.  i imagine that there is some cultural competency that i lack, with which i would be less confused.  the two lovers fall off of a bridge together.  next scene a hospital room, next scene back at school laughing, fully recovered.
4. psalms 15:1,5 .  Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? . . . He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent.  to take reward against the innocent is for a judge to accept a bribe and then decide against the innocent's favor.  in the old testament it was OK to take a bribe so long as you still made the correct judgment.  in the case of our movie, the rich man enslaved the high school girl by making her believe that she had caused him the equivalent of $3000 damage.
5. am i supposed to be concerned about this older man and the high school girl?  he is not that old, but he is clearly older than high school age.  his father says "are you dating a minor?"  he said no, she is just a maid.  that is because he enslaved her.  no, i shouldn't be worried, because they end up kissing.
6. after they kiss, the mother of the girl yells at the man.  she is not mad that an older man has kissed her young daughter.  she is mad because she thinks he is "toying with her."  everything would be OK if he planned to marry her.
7. one high school girl says to her friend: "the only way out is to pay for it with your body."  then they are all drunk.  am i supposed to believe that this is a typical situation, or should i laugh at the film director's sense of irony.
8. why am i even watching this?  because we already made the necessary arrangements to watch a movie.  it was either this or a movie about a guy who is skilled at fighting.  who is also literate.
9. the funniest part is how the heroine learns that she is being cheated.  her father nicks his car because he is lowering his mandible and arrugating his nose and groutling about his pharynx and staring because he can see a woman's underwear.  you would think the heroine is in trouble because dad would catch her playing hookie, but dad is the one who feels like he is in trouble.  the mechanic says in korean "$10, sometimes $20, you know we have to make a living too."  
10. that is how you know it was all a set-up.
11. normally i feel cheated out of two hours of my life if i have to watch a bad romantic comedy, but a foreign bad romantic comedy, i can only admire it as a piece of performance art, making social commentary on the convention "bad romantic comedy."
12. we are in an economic crisis.