Familiar Wife (2018)
10/10
What a beautiful story
4 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
We first meet Cha Joo Hyuk and his miserable Wife Woo-jin , as they bicker and argue about everything. On the face of it Woo-jin is a miserable character who flies off the handle at everything and makes Joo Hyuk miserable too . In a chance meeting with an Old flame Lee Hye-Won who he idolised at college . She tells him she quite liked him in college. A stranger give Joo hyuk a coin and this allow him to travel back to 2006, the point where his paths split, standing up for Woo_jin, on bus meant he missed the date with Hye-Won. He changes time and works up in the present with a different wife and the perfect life or so he thinks.

It's a story for anyone who has let their marriage go stale and has forgotten the excitement of dating and growing together, who's thoughts turn to an old romance and idealise it. Forgotten how your partner made your heart jump, how they were the centre of your Universe. That's why you married them.

It's a stunning performance from Han ji-min, who is just as believable as the Young 15 year old Woo jin cheeky school girl, who's aim in life is to marry Joo hyuk. As to when she plays the broken wife and mother, who spends her time shouting, and then we see the beautiful flower that she truly is.

Whilst HanJi-min for me is the star, it is Cha joo hyuk eyes we see the story through and it is his Journey of self realisation that we are on Seong Ji masters this beautifully and you find yourself wanting to either cheer him along or slap him for being so stupid.

Kang han-na has a hard roll to play and its Always difficult to play the Character that your supposed to dislike but her performance is excellent .

Seung-jo Jang character is pivotal to the plot and is a great anchor, but I think calling him one of the stars is done because of his standing rather the role he plays, but still well acted.

The support cast is strong and they help the plot along nicely even whilst their own mini sub plots of romances and dreams and the ins and out of bank life. Some characters such as Lee Jeong-eun as Woo jin mothers Hee bon Park as Cha Joo Eun, Joo-Huyk are pivotal to the plot and both play them brilliantly.
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