I am a Castaway on the moon !!!!!!

Well not in real life I am not, but this delightful little Korean movie might just make me seek to reconsider that !! I mean hey, what could indeed be better then living on the moon right ??? Hmmm definitely something to investigate I feel.    Just need to raise the cash first hehehe.

You know what though team ? Its actually ironic that I wasn't on the ground when I saw this movie.   I was most likely somewhere over the China/Taiwan region in a Malaysian airlines jet on route from Seoul, Korea; to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.   I guess its not quite the moon but its indeed as close as most of us will actually get in our lives lol.

I must say though that if a movie could actually take you to the moon, then this one would be it.    I simply found this movie delightful, quirky, amusing, Kookie, simple, intellectually stimulating, and just a fun movie all round.    Thats quite a pleasant recollection yes !!?? Good !! Lets find out why. 

" Castaway on the moon " centres around the quirky adventures of the two main characters,  Kim Seung-keun, ( played by Jeong Jae-Yeong ) and Kim Jeong-Yeon, ( played by Jeong Ryeo-Won ).   These two characters really do a great job in carrying the movie forward, and really do keep the movie very simple and pleasing indeed.

Jae-Yeongs character sets the ball rolling on this quirky little number.    Seung-keun starts as a young man in a crisis.  He is not happy in life, he is despondent in his job, and well.. everything seems to be going wrong.    Oh yes, debt, a common trigger for woe, also emerges as a huge problem for Seung-Keun, and this is the final straw for him.   His residence in dark mental place in his life is confirmed when he recieves a phone call one day that says he has racked up a huuuuuuuuuge debt and sets him for the worst.   It also directs him to a bridge crossing over the Han River in Seoul, which in his ideal plan and plot, is now the last bridge he will ever cross, stand on, and walk across ... ever.    Period.   Yep, suicide seems to be his way out, so he ...well... duly follows through with this ideal, with the end of it all in mind, jumping into the waters of the Han River........

..........and duly managing to get himself onto a deserted little Island in the middle of the Han River.

Seung-Keun is duly unamused by this situation.    He feels that he can not live, yet is now compounded by the reality that death obviously doesn't want to come easily to him also.   He truely is a clutz yes !!! He just simply can not seem to get things right lol.    Ah the complexities of it all.   Thankfully though for him, life actually gets quirky, amusing and simplier from here.

Especially with the introduction of Kim Jeong-Yeon.

To say that Seung-Keun and Jeong-Yeon are 2 vastly different characters is quite an understatement indeed.  They are at vastly opposite ends of the scale.    Seung-Keun, on the surface, has potential to succeed.  He was working in a big company and well.... if he had his life together ... maybe could have gone on to bigger and better things.    A real case of inner turmoil killing off outer potential you could indeed say.   Jeong-Yeon, on the other hand, is a completely visible alternate and, in the eyes of society, a total and utter reclusive nut so to speak.  

Yet it is not her outside look and appearance that sets her up in this movie.   Her outer lack of conformity hides an inside that has a strong concern, care and curiousity about things.    Yes, she ie reclusive and struggles with the outside world, but its the outside world that helps her develop an inate sense of curiousity about life.     Particularly her life when Seung-Keun enters it.    Even if it is unintentional, inadvertent and purely circumstantial.

Lets look at Jeong-Yeon a little more for the minute.   Jeong-Yeon lives in clutter.    Seriously.   She basically hoards a lot, and one of those things hoarded is a telescope, which she regularly uses to look out of her room and gaze into the outside world.   She is quite curious about the outside world and seems to show interest in many of the things in it.

As this is going on, Seung-Keun is gradually settling into his new life on the desserted little island.    He is fending for himself, enjoying his freedom, and rediscovering a zest for life.   Jeong-Yeon is spending much more time behind the computer, looking out of her binoculars more, and really getting curious about the world.    Seung-keun is starting to wish to connect with others again.   Jeong-Yeon is getting more curious about the world.    Seung-Keun tries to communicate with the world through various means.    Jeong-Yeon seeks something interesting in the world.

And then she finds Seung-Keun.

Seriously.   Yep.   Her telescope spent so much time looking for something and yes it found Seung-Keun.    And so the connection between the two began.

Jeong-Yeon was completely intrigued by Seung-Keun, and so they begin communicating.   Seriously.    One in a cluttery bedroom.   The other on a desserted island.    Communicating via messages in the sand and in bottles.    Establishing a very unlikely connection indeed.  
 
Seung-Keun and his life on the island becomes an all consuming thought for Jeong-Yeon.   She takes photos of him also.    She puts him up in her room.    Seung-Keun begins to really love a solitary life on the island, and this really does intrigue Jeong-Yeon.    She is especially interested in how he cooks and gets food for himself.   So much so that she if even sends him home delivery noodles !!!!!Seriously !!! She sends a little noodle delivery man on his scooter to the island to feed him !!!!


However, its here where things take a turn.    The police are eventually alerted to Seung-Keuns presence on the island and they go there to remove him.   Jeong-Yeon is alarmed by this and actually decides to leave her room and go looking for him.    Meeting him now becomes inevitable.   

And guess what team... I AINT GONNA TELL YA WHAT HAPPENS NEXT !!!!!!

You have to come and watch it !!!!

You can see it here with english subtitles..

www.DLAznMovies.com

You can also see the trailer here




Team, you really need to watch this movie.   Its truely a delightful take on how two people from completely different backgrounds, and on completely different levels, can connect on such a high level with each other.   Its a nice take on how communication takes place on not just a verbal level, but also a spiritual level also.  

I loved it and you will too team.    You owe it to yourself to see it.