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SOMEONE SPECIAL springs its schmaltz in the first couple of minutes: Dong Chi-seong (Jeong Jae-Yeong) is a baseball player who has never fallen in love, and now he's been diagnosed with cancer and told he has two months to live. Cue the violins. But this flick is a send-up of the conventions of Korean romantic comedy. Dong wanders around asking everyone he meets what love is (their answers are uniformly ridiculous), he goes out to get drunk but he has no tolerance, he meets a young bartender (Lee Na-Yeong) but passes out before they can talk. When he wakes up he discovers that she's a withdrawn shut-in who can't muster much more than a sub-verbal mumble. Intensely lonely, the two team up like some kind of loser Batman and Robin, but once they're together they don't know what to do: go on a date? Move in together? They're clueless. Ridiculing sports movies, romantic comedies (one of the highlights of the movie is when our leads go to watch one of the worst romantic comedies ever made) and Korean melodrama, SOMEONE SPECIAL is the least-fuzzy, least-optimistic, least-insulting romantic comedy to come out of Korea in a long time.

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