Realistic, cinematic and far too long . . .

A beautiful short story concept dragged over four hours. The plot, themes and characters are too paper thin to sustain the weight. I would have much preferred a one hour story, in a set of four (as the title 'soundtrack' implies).

Park Hyung-sik plays a familiar character who is boyishly and earnestly in love with the woman by his side and badly trying to hide it. The only one fooled being the woman herself. Unlike in Happiness or Strong Girl Bong Soon, however, that's all there is to him. Han So-Hee is new to me and does a great job encapsulating a head strong, brash girl who is more talk than action. Again, however, that's all there is to her.

The music is surprisingly not front and center and not particularly well-done. The actress doesn't have a guitar or a keyboard, she doesn't hum or sing, she doesn't go on long rants about song structures and the repetitive commercialism of modern pop music. She just scribbles in a notepad. (similarly Park Hyung-Sik fails to convince that he's a genius art photographer).

It has a beautiful, millennial cinematic vibe - a string of suspended in golden air moments. I appreciated the setting of cozy, snowy winter instead of the typical golden sunshine-y feeling of other shows that have tried similar ideas.