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Because I Love You
Movie

Because I Love You

2017 • Unknown

Woke Score
1
out of 10

Plot

Lee Hyeong is a talented songwriter. He happens to connect people who are not good with love. Those include Hyeong-Gyeong who wants to become a singer, but she suffers from stage fright. Scully is a high school student. She helps Lee Hyeong's spirit. Chan-Young is a colleague of Lee Hyeong and he likes Hyeong-Gyeong, but in vain.

Overall Series Review

The film centers on a songwriter's spirit who, after an accident, acts as a supernatural cupid by temporarily possessing the bodies of various people struggling with love. These vignettes explore universal human themes across different life stages, including a shy singer, a failing marriage, a high school pregnancy, and an elderly couple dealing with dementia. The narrative repeatedly emphasizes the enduring power of love, commitment, and mending broken connections. The core emotional structure is heartwarming, focusing on improving the lives and relationships of all characters through self-discovery and relational vitality.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The movie is a South Korean production featuring an entirely East Asian cast, focusing on universal, colorblind themes of human connection and love. Characters are judged solely on their personal struggles and actions related to their relationships and character development. The narrative does not contain any vilification of a specific race or focus on an intersectional hierarchy; it is a story of shared human experience.

Oikophobia1/10

The plot celebrates core societal institutions like marriage, family, and communal life by showing the protagonist's spirit actively working to repair relationships within his home culture. The film is a tribute to a famous Korean songwriter and promotes positive values like devotion and enduring love. There is no hostility toward Korean or Western civilization, nor is there a framing of the culture as fundamentally corrupt.

Feminism2/10

The main action is driven by a male spirit acting as a matchmaker, which frames male energy as protective and helpful in the romantic sphere. The plot features strong female characters, such as the spunky high school student Scully and the aspiring singer Hyeong-Gyeong, but they are not 'perfect' Mary Sues; they face real-world struggles like stage fright and family challenges. One story specifically addresses a teenage pregnancy, focusing on the positive resolution of a new family unit rather than presenting motherhood as a prison or career as the only fulfillment.

LGBTQ+1/10

The movie exclusively centers on traditional, heterosexual pairings and the nuclear family unit across various age groups, from young couples with a crush to an older married couple. The narrative’s goal is to repair and strengthen these normative structures. There is no presence of alternative sexual ideologies, deconstruction of the family, or lecturing on gender theory.

Anti-Theism2/10

The film utilizes a fantasy trope of a benevolent spirit acting as a cupid to help people in love. This supernatural element serves a narrative function to promote human love and morality, not to attack organized religion. The underlying message is one of transcendent morality, emphasizing the objective truth of love and devotion as a source of strength, which stands in direct contrast to moral relativism.