More Than Blue (2009) poster

2009 · drama · romance · music

More Than Blue

Directed by Won Tae-yeon1h 45m2009

A terminally ill man tries to find a suitable husband for the friend he has loved since childhood.

Our read: More Than Blue (2009) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.

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Cast

Kwon Sang-woo Lee Bo-young Lee Beom-soo Jung Ae-yeun Lee Han-wi

Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.

ElsewhereIMDb7.53k

sombre

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Where the cast leads

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actor path

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DNA · twelve axes

How More Than Blue feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy

PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic

IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme

WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal

HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive

StakesIntimate ↔ Epic

HumourNone ↔ Broad

RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical

DensitySparse ↔ Twisty

WarmthCold ↔ Tender

AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

“You want a heartbreaking Korean melodrama about unspoken lifelong love and sacrifice.”

ends devastatingit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full

Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — Skip tonight if you are not prepared for an extremely sad and emotional tearjerker.

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