‘Youth man’ like the bright sunlight on a summer day… Movie ‘Made in Rooftop’

Director Kim Jo Gwang-soo’s new feature film ‘Made in Rooftop’ tells the story of a ‘young man’ love story as brightly and cheerfully as the fresh love between young men and women.

The movie begins with Ha-neul (Lee Hong-nae), a trainee who was kicked out of her home after giving a fake breakup to her boyfriend, Jeong-min (Kang Jeong-woo), whom she had been dating for three years, looking for the rooftop room where her BJ friend Bong-sik (Jung-hwi) lives.

The sky doesn’t want to part with Jung-min, but she doesn’t want to reach out to reconciliation in the first place. I want to respond coolly to the ‘push and pull’ (push and pull) to take the initiative between lovers, but I think I’ll cry soon if Jung-min pushes me away. When Jeongmin tells him to come back home, even if he pretends to be upset, he can’t hide the twitching corners of his lips.

Bong-sik, who says, “I’ll live until forty,” and spends money as soon as he has it, lives freely as if he’s not tied to anything. However, in reality, Minho’s active interest keeps stepping backwards. Bong-sik acts like the coolest person in the world, but he’s afraid he’ll get hurt.

As director Kim Jo wanted to escape from the dark atmosphere of queer films with the protagonists struggling with their gender identity, the film radiates pleasant energy with the freshness of young people who are not good at love and the romance of calling rooftop rooms a rooftop. Watching the movie makes you want to sit on the bench in front of the rooftop room on a summer day with a blue sky and blue sky, drink a glass of daytime drink, and then lie down and throw it away.

The love fight between lovers quarrels with each other realistically depicts the emotional ups and downs of a roller coaster, earning sympathy. Haneul and Jung-min, old lovers who fight and reconcile repeatedly, and Bong-sik and Minho, who are just starting their relationship, but are cautious. They blow away the preconceived notion that their love affair, which is no different from others, is not common because it is the story of a gay couple.

However, the hardships they face, such as the reality of not being able to introduce a boyfriend to their parents because they can’t tell their parents that they’re gay, are also melted lightly. Friendship also makes people laugh softly by handing an ice pack to a friend who is crying to the point that their eyes are swollen. The screenplay was written by Yeom Mun-kyung, who worked as the main writer of ‘Giant Peng TV’, which gained a storm of sympathy with its straight-forward lines.

The acting of the actors also enhances the perfection of the film. Lee Hong-nae, who played the villain Ji Cheong-shin in the drama ‘Wonderful Rumor’ with fierce eyes, perfectly transforms into a bright and lovely sky. Jeonghwi perfectly digests colorfully patterned clothes and persuasively plays Bongsik, who is bright on the outside but soft on the inside. Kwak Min-gyu, who plays Min-ho, a lover who sincerely conveys his feelings for Bong-sik, and Lee Jung-eun, who plays Soon-ja, a professional meddler who lives downstairs in the rooftop room, also hold the center of gravity of the play with stable acting.

Opens on the 23rd. Running time 87 minutes. Audience over 15 years old.

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