'A Day..'. Ironically Is About Love

The immorality of a sexual relationship outside marriage shouldn't be debated. But the new film "A Good Day to Have an Affair" asks, "Is it really immoral?"

The film revolves around two married women who seek and take lovers, deceiving their husbands. They seem to have good reasons.

In dealing with their secret love affairs, the film, promoted as "a sexy comedy", produces hilarious adult jokes through the bold dialogue.

The film's daring journey toward an answer to the question, however, ends at a somewhat cliched destination _ the two women are back where they started.

Directed by Jang Moon-il, the film centers on the lives of two married women, who are only identified by their online chat names, Dew (played by Kim Hye-soo) and Small Bird (by Yoon Jin-seo).

They have different personalities and tastes. But what they have in common is that they want to meet a man who can satisfy their unfulfilled desires.

Dew is a sexy and fashionable woman. She begins dating a much younger man, a college student, whom she meets in an online chat room. The first time they meet offline, they go to a motel and have sex.

Dew doesn't take the relationship seriously. It's just a hobby for her. Her excuse for meeting another man is to take revenge against her husband, who has long been in love with another woman.

Small Bird is the mother of a 9-year-old girl and the wife of a detective. Having married right after graduating high school, she is a naive woman who sometimes wonders whether she missed out on courtship and romance in the rush to marry her high school sweetheart.

Small Bird also meets a man in a chat room. The man sweet talks her and makes her happy, but he is a suave playboy whose foremost mission is just to sleep with her.

But she makes it hard for him. Sitting on a bed in a motel, she asks him to tell her funny stories.

These exciting detours from the two women's boring lives, however, end tragically.

Dew and her college boyfriend are walked in on in a motel room by Dew's husband, and Small Bird's secret lover leaves her as she tries to take their relationship to a more serious level.

What the two women try to find, ironically, is love, which doesn't exist in their marriage. But the serious aspects of their love affair are either barely examined or overshadowed by jokes.

The film could be interesting as a comedy, but it doesn't answer the question it posed.