![]() Which is to say, Seungmin’s movies are soul-suckingly bleak and without an ounce of romance. His body of work is a little too pretentious and arthaus and right out of a Criterion lover’s wet dream for an Average Joe like Hyunjin to be familiar with, being someone who needs a character he can root for rather than cardboard cutouts being used to examine the human condition. Hyunjin didn’t know Seungmin was an actor at the time. Since this is real life, the first time Hwang Hyunjin meets Kim Seungmin, the actor’s lips are notably pressed in the straightest of lines as he thumbs through the ending of The Anatomist in the back stacks of Hyunjin’s (failing, according to Jisung’s unsolicited opinion once again) bookstore. Men in romance novels always seem to have crooked mouths and crooked smiles and a slightly crooked view on dating and relationships that the main character will inevitably come to fix through the transformative power of love (“and also dick!” according to his worst and only employee, Han Jisung).
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