This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

the audience applauded

Dreadfully Boring

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Please don't expect something dramatic or exotic from this movie. You'll get disappointed. This movie is not a fairy tale.But, if you're serious about life, you may like this movie as I do. I saw it two years ago, and the image is still vivid, because it got me to think about my life and lives of so many friends of mine, not limited to the actors in the movie. After all, 70% of high school graduates don't go to college in Korea. It is not fair that nobody in movie industry cares just because the story is not fancy enough.I agree with the other reviewer in that the ending does not go anywhere. However, I would say the ending suggests a direction, and I believe that was intended. There is a background. A couple of years before this movie, younger generations of Korean started making their voice heard. Now, just after 10 years or so, a lot of cultural figures and opinion leaders are from non-mainstream careers, which used to be very rare in Korea. This movie is part of the shift, encouraging people to think of alternative paths.

Korea is well known by koreans for their "drama's" "take care of my cat" gives americans an insight not only in the lives of modern korean girls but the cultural issues that are embedded into the korean culture. This Movie Greatly portrays how korean's cherish friendship (that being what americans would consider a "best friend) Being half korean i may have taken a greater liking to it since i can relate but i highly suggest you should give "take care of my cat" a chance...

Goyangileul butaghae aka Take Care of my Cat (JEONG Jae-eun, 2001)"Cat" tells the story of five young women, one year after their high school graduation. It focuses particularly on three of them: Tae-hee (played by BAE Doo-na -- an upper middle-clas girl, who feels trapped by her rather philistine family -- who works for free for the family business and as a volunteer typist for a young poet afflicted with severe cerebral palsy), Hae-joo (played by LEE Yo-won -- a somewhat lower middle-class girl, who has a job as a trainee in a brokerage firm, and has dreams of unencumbered upwards mobility, with all the attendant opportunities for conspicuous consumption) and Ji-young (played by OK Ji-young -- an orphan who lives with her impoverished grandparents in a rather squalid slum dwelling, who wants to study textile design, but currently can't find any work at all to help supplement the meager family income). The other two girls are the twins Bi-ryu and Ohn-jo (played by LEE Eun-shil and Eun-joo, currently working as street vendors selling home-made jewelry "all strung with the highest grade fishing line").Like Ozu's films this movie SEEMS virtually plotless -- but beyond describing the overall situation (which I did above), I find it impossible to say much about the plot content that couldn't spoil a new viewer's enjoyment of the many little twists and turns of the story. Let it suffice to say that all three of our key characters suffer a number of vicissitudes during the relatively short time span covered by the film.After watching this a second (and third) time, I noted something that had not registered at the time of my first viewing. The film very much reminds me (in a number of ways) of recent Aki Kaurismaki films, especially "Drifting Clouds" and "Man Without a Past" (which was released AFTER "Cat"). JEONG and her cinematographer CHOI Yeong-kwan (also a relative beginner) show the same ability to present what OUGHT to be ugly urban settings in a way that gives them an unexpected sense of beauty (with no trace of artificial prettification). The humor is JEONG's script is mostly rather dead-pan, passing by with no attempt to "play it up". And she shows a deep affection and respect for her characters (even for Hae-joo, who can test the patience of both her friends and the viewers of the film with her arrogant self-centeredness). Finally, the finale of the film is rather reminiscent of that of the Kaurismaki films I mentioned already (saying more would definitely be a spoiler -- if this vague circumlocution is a spoiler in itself -- accept my regrets).One final word, the five young actresses featured here are absolutely splendid, one and all. And, if there is any justice is the cinematic world, at least one of them BAE Doo-na should be destined for "greatness".

I really liked the film. Kind of reminded me of a foreign "Ghost World". Had the same kind of chemistry between the girls. It is good to see that female friendship is the same all over. This is a fun movie and gives us a peak of what it is like to grow up in modern Korea. I highly recommend it!