Maybe, aka Rabbit & Lizard (Tokkiwa Rijeodeu)
Last night was a Korean movie night, and I decided to watch Maybe for no
other reason that it was available on Amazon Prime and I have enjoyed Korean movies in the past. What I saw was a slow-moving drama that focus on two tormented individuals. Maybe stars Seong Yoo-ri and Jang Hyeok.
May (Seong Yoo-ri) has been put up for adoption when she was four years old. Now, 23 years later, she returns to Korea in order to find her parents and uncover the source of her lizard-shaped scar on her back. However, the only person she finds his her aunt who tells her that her parents aren't alive anymore. Being a stranger and lost she wanders through the streets of Seoul and by chance runs into taxi driver Eun-seol (Jang Hyeok) for the second time, a man who suffers from a heart disease that makes his organ stop pumping blood for several seconds every now and then. Eun-seol has already met May at the airport and it seems as if he is following the girl. He tells her that he wants to give her a little city tour, but May actually doesn't want him to be near her. Eventually, he proposes to help her find her relatives, without knowing about her parents' fate, if she in return helps him find a red rabbit. Since his childhood days Eun-seol has nightmares and hopes to resolve the mystery surrounding them by finding the red rabbit. Despite her being unwilling to do so May spends some time with the taxi driver and the two realize that they are in fact connected by some kind of bond whose source they slowly start to uncover.
I can tell you that this is not a movie that is uplifting because, as I see it, Maybe is a film about the loneliness of the two main characters. I do not recommend this film because it is such a downer.