Synopsis
What would remain for us to talk about if we restrain talking about Oedipal relationship and marriage? Once they are gone, the popular art would undergo abrupt changes from head to toe. - Roland Barte - One of the most familiar themes in life and fiction has been to meet a lovable opposite sex and share life with him or her. This Czech film deals with this old, yet always enchanting theme. In this film, the lovers do not tie the knots as in the usual romantic fables. Rather, the story evolves after the lovers make their marriage vows before everybody. It is a sad story how a loving relationship goes through unfavorable changes and toward the end. It thus reminds the Spanish saying that goes like: Those whose relationship starts with love and is bound in marriage will have to live in pain. The film, through varied techniques of animation, sketches the complexities of the relationship effectively and discreetly. It also throws a question into the face of the audience. Is a genuine sense of solidarity a real thing? (HONG Sung-Nam)