Whether to go straight or not has some dramatic, even comic, possibilities in it for a movie if you're talking about sexuality. But if you're talking about hair (like should it be straight or not), the potential for being interesting drops exponentially. In the high school soap opera Love Untangled, the curly hair that curses the ingenue Shin Eun-soo (Park Se-ri) doesn't really seem to matter to anyone. It doesn't prevent the new-boy-in-town Han Yun-seok (Gong Myoung) from developing a crush on her. It doesn't mean the most popular boy in school Kim Hyeon (Cha Woo-min). And she's got a cadre of friends. So where's the obstacle?
When Eun-soo invites Yun-seok into her dad's storage facility does anyone not predict that the sharing of comic books and the folding of origami eggs is going to bind these two together in perpetuity? So what's the point? And yet, as one character says, "Does it have to be useful to mean something?" With movies, sometimes the escape is enough. And Sun Namkoong's Love Untangled isn't a total wash. The homeroom teacher — as played by Jo Bok-rae — could have been given an entire movie all his own, what with his strangely slow delivery and unexplained vibe of light menace. This is the kind of performance that would've fit right in for a Richard Foreman play. Instead we get a dodge ball game, a field trip, an abused mom, and the realization that the cutest boy might not be the ideal boyfriend and the nice boy needs your help.
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