Overview of Crazy Romance

‘Crazy Romance’ starring Kim Rae-won and Kong Hyo-jin is a feel-good romantic comedy released in 2019. Kim Han-gyul directed this movie about the love life of Jae-hoon and Sun-young. The movie is a complete package of comedy and romance with mature themes like love and trust.

Profile

• Movie: ‘Crazy Romance’
• Genre: Drama / Romantic-Comedy
• Director: Kim Han-gyul
• Writer: Kim Han-gyul
• Producer: Oh Hyo-jin
• Release Date: 2 October 2019
• Running Time: 109 minutes
• Production Company: Zip Cinema
• Distributor: Next Entertainment World
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Cast

Main

• Kim Rae-won as Jae-hoon
• Kong Hyo-jin as Sun-young

Supporting

• Kang Ki-young as Byung-chul
• Jung Woong-in as Kwon-soo
• Jang So-yeon as Mi-young
• Lee Chae-eun as Kyung-eun
• Jung Hye-rin as Yoon-joo

Synopsis

Jae-hoon is a good-hearted young man working in an advertising company. His marriage dreams get shattered when his fiancee breaks up with him. However, the moment alcohol touches his tongue he becomes a man of dejection. Despite how hard he tries to reconcile with his fiancee she never replies to any of his messages. He unchains his anger and despair by giving inappropriate calls and messages to his friends and colleagues. He gets drunk to the level to which he forgets everything he has done drunkenly. Since his condition is familiar among his colleagues they do not take what he has blabbered through the phone to heart.

One day Sun-young joins his company. Two days after her joining Jae-hoon calls her at night and talks for two hours. Though they acquaints with each other with a little awkwardness soon they get along with each other since they have a lot in common. Sun-young breaks up with her traitor boyfriend and the feeling of getting cheated again makes her insecure about dating or sleeping with a man.

The night when Jae-hoon and his team gather for dinner after the shoot of an advertisement Sun-young learns that Jae-hoon has a good image among his colleagues. Though everyone leaves for home after dinner Jae-hoon stays outside drinking. Sun-young comes to fetch him home. While they talk, he tells her about the efforts that he made to give a good life to his fiancee. She feels sorry for him and he leans towards her to kiss her, making him fall over a table and breaking his arms when she moves away.

One day, the employees go hiking. On that trip, Sun-young and Jae-hoon get to know each other deeply and she sleeps with him. She leaves him the next morning without waking him up and when they meet in the office, he pretends that he does not remember anything about the previous night.

However, news spreads in the office about their relationship and to make the situation even more thrilling one of the colleagues digs out Sun-young’s past and criticises her in the office group accidentally. This incident makes Sun-young leave the office.

As an act of revenge, Sun-young unexpectedly drops at the farewell party hosted by the office without her. Pretending she is drunk, she starts to blabber about the gossip about everyone in the office turning the party into a complete mess. The film ends by showing Jae-hoon and Sun-young playing the word game in a restaurant leaving behind their previous relationships and insecurities in the past.

Theme

Office Culture

An office will always have some black sheep who gossip about their colleagues, making the work culture toxic. However, in many cases there is no other go than being nice to everyone in the office, concealing hatred towards them. It is human nature to dig out the ugly past of someone for entertainment. Sun-young is scared of being in a relationship because of her previous experiences. When it comes to criticism, she is the one who is always blamed of.

All the gossip gives her the image of a person with ugly motives. She is sad and feels lonely when no one thinks from her side, but when she meets Jae-hoon, she feels like he is a reflection of herself. The employees ignore Jae-hoon’s misbehaving when he is drunk because everyone is familiar with what happened in his love life.

Family and Trust

Assembling funny events the movie discusses a mature theme like the concept of family and trust. A family is meant to be built upon trust. The movie looks into the lives of people who got betrayed by their partners, while the traitors move on with their new lives. Jea-hoon is a man who is ditched by his fiancee because he was unable to spend time with her but in reality, he was putting all his efforts to have a good life with her. Jae-hoon tries to make her stay in his life even after she leaves him.

On the other hand, Sun-young is scared of committing a love relationship with a man because the men she had relationships with put her into so much trouble making her the only victim of all the accusations and complaints. Finally, Jae-hoon and Sun-young fall for each other because they get convinced by the love and care they have for each other.

Awards

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Interesting Facts about Crazy Romance

1. The shooting of the movie started on 7 January 2019 and was completed on 8 March 2019.
2. Kim Rae-won and Kong Hyo-jin make a cute couple in the movie.
3. Kang Ki-young is nominated three times as the best supporting actor for this movie.

FAQs

1. Who is the director of the movie ‘Crazy Romance’?
   Kim Han-gyul is the director of the movie ‘Crazy Romance’.
2. In which year is the film ‘Crazy Romance’ released?
   ‘Crazy Romance’ is released on 2nd October 2019.
3. Who are the male and female leads in the film ‘Crazy Romance’?
   Kim Rae-won and Kong Hyo-jin handle the male and female leads in ‘Crazy Romance’.
4. What is the Instagram ID of Kim Rae-won?
   The Instagram ID of Kim Rae-won is @krw810319.
5. What is the Instagram ID of Kong Hyo-jin?
   The Instagram ID of Kong Hyo-jin is @rovvxhyo.