IMDb plot summary: A South Korean has a different person's body, changing every morning to a body "borrowed" for a day - man, woman, old, child and sometimes a foreigner. "He" works as furniture designer. He loves a girl. She loves him for the beauty inside.
Directed by Jong-Yeol Baek. Starring Hyo-joo Han, Dong-hwi Lee, Suk Mun, and Seo-joon Park.
This movie is about a young man with a strange curse in which every day he wakes up and he has a different body. Old, young, male, female, Korean, some other ethnicity, there's no rhyme or reason to what body he gets on any given day. He's learned to adapt, since in the digital age you hardly ever have to show your face, and has a thriving furniture design business, but this movie picks up when he decides he wants to try a real relationship. Not only does this movie have a great premise, it also really delves into this person's world - what it might be like to live in that space, what that would keep you from doing. One morning he wakes up after a one-night stand as an old man with poor eyesight and can barely see well enough to get himself home. It also does an amazing job of examining what might be difficult about being in a relationship with someone like this. The two leads are likable and their affection for each other makes sense, as do the conflicts that come up with his condition. It's ultimately a very beautifully crafted movie that feels unlike any fantasy romance I've ever seen.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Beauty Inside > The Road
The Beauty Inside > The Thing
The Beauty Inside < Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
The Beauty Inside < The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Beauty Inside < Bruce Almighty
The Beauty Inside > Finian's Rainbow
The Beauty Inside > This Boy's Life
The Beauty Inside < Coco
The Beauty Inside < Big Man Japan
The Beauty Inside < Nebraska
The Beauty Inside > Identity
The Beauty Inside > The Man Who Wasn't There
Final spot: #720 out of 3191, or 77%.
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