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Pierce Conran

This article contains spoilers.
Lead cast: Namgoong Min, Jeon Yeo-been, Lee Seol, Seo Hyun-woo
Latest Nielsen rating: 3.3 per cent
To paraphrase Lee Je-ha, the film director portrayed by Namgoong Min (Hot Stove League) in the melodrama Our Movie, true love means loving someone even if you know that it will all end.


For Je-ha, this is not merely a wistful remark about the nature of love – it is a reality that he is quietly trying to grapple with in his day-to-day life.
Years after his critically and commercially successful debut, Je-ha is finally mounting a follow-up. He has opted for the most personal project he could – a remake of Love in White, the classic romance directed by his late father, with whose legacy he has a complicated relationship.
To aid him with the film’s theme of terminal illness, he engages the services of Lee Da-eum (Jeon Yeo-been, Vincenzo), a young terminally ill woman, as a consultant.
Da-eum is a struggling actress whose screen aspirations were put on hold following her devastating diagnosis. But she finds the confidence to audition for the lead role in Je-ha’s film and, against the odds, she winds up being cast in the role.

This happens over the objections of Je-ha’s producer Boo Seung-won (Seo Hyun-woo, Uncle Samsik), who intended to cast Chae Seo-young (Lee Seol, One Ordinary Day), an actress who shot to stardom after appearing in Je-ha’s first film.
It takes some time for Da-eum to convince Je-ha that she can be trusted with the role, not because she has never had a major one before, but because her remaining time is limited and she could collapse on set at any moment.
This means that beyond Je-ha and a handful of other people, no one can know about her condition, especially the film’s investors, its staff and Da-eum’s co-stars, including Seo-young, who, to everyone’s surprise, takes on a supporting role in the film.
Je-ha does what he can to reduce the burden on Da-eum and to alleviate the fears of her doctor father Lee Jung-hyo (Kwon Hae-hyo, Parasyte: The Grey).

He makes sure that all of her filming locations are within a 10-minute drive of a good hospital, and he even makes his assistant director organise the film’s schedule in such a way that Da-eum’s scenes will all shoot first.
None of this changes the fact that Da-eum will never act again after the film. This adds poignancy to her casting, as her one and only major performance is happening just in time for her to be eternalised on screen before shuffling off her mortal coil.
But this becomes more complicated for Je-ha, who is steadily developing feelings for his leading lady, knowing full well that the deeper he falls for her, the harder her impending death will be to handle.
As Je-ha falls for her, he even promises to Jung-hyo that even if he has to give up on his movie, he will bring Da-eum to the hospital.

It is in moments like these that the show’s wistful melodrama comes into stark conflict with reality. Je-ha’s intentions towards Da-eum seem pure, but what about the hundreds of other people involved in this film?
There is a reason that her condition has to be kept secret: it is sheer madness to hang a major project on Da-eum’s shoulders and it is not fair on her co-stars, the film’s staff and the investor putting up millions of dollars.
Jung-hyo mentions how his daughter always smiles the most when she is suffering the most. She won’t show her pain to anyone. But is it really putting on a brave face when the truth you hide is putting everyone around you at risk?
Of course, this is a show called Our Movie, emphasis on the “our”. As such, the lines between life and art gradually align until they reach a point where the mechanics of the actual production of the film all but disappear.

Da-eum is essentially playing a different version of herself in the film and her romantic interludes with Je-ha take place against cinematic backdrops – a stolen kiss under an umbrella on a glistening rainy night, another in front of a lighthouse as the sun sets.
With location production in full swing and Je-ha and Da-eum’s feelings for one another out in the open, we can be sure that the penny is just about to drop. What remains to be seen is whether it does so before it is a wrap on Da-eum’s role in the film.
Our Movie is streaming on Disney+.


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As the lead characters’ feelings for each other come out, will they finish shooting their film in time for terminally ill actress Lee Da-eum?


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As the lead characters’ feelings for each other come out, will they finish shooting their film in time for terminally ill actress Lee Da-eum?