The Beauty Inside is a wholesome story about a relationship and the struggles of falling in love. Woo-jin is a furniture designer who wakes up as a different person every day. It ranges from age, race, and gender. His character is played by around 30 different people, which adds a level of respect to how well they manage to portray the same character with different actors and actresses. Even though he wakes up looking different on the outside, he’s the same person on the inside. Only two people in his life know about his “condition”, and his friend is one who helps him run a business. Eventually Woo-jin falls in love with a girl called Yi-soo, played by Han Hyo-joo, but can’t find the courage to approach her. One day, he wakes up as someone who he deems handsome enough, played by Park Seo-joon, and ends up approaching her. Instead of falling back asleep and continuing the cycle of changing faces, he forces himself to stay awake to not change. For the next three days, he manages to keep himself awake and go on dates with Yi-soo, taking her places like his storage section of the furniture store as well as buying string rings together. Once they part, Woo-jin ends up falling asleep on the subway train, changing his face and ruining his plans for the next day. Feeling guilty for canceling plans, he approaches Yi-soo again, but this time as a girl, and invites her back to his place by mentioning the version of himself she met. Yi-soo, reasonably, reactions to this with shock and leaves, but it was too late, since Yi-soo had fallen for Woo-jin. Yi-soo then insists on staying over-night so she can witness the change. The night they spend bring the pair closer together, and once he changes, Yi-soo decides to stay with him. Throughout the rest of the film, it shows the growth in their relationship, the struggle of having to get used to a different face every day, and eventually overcoming it all and learning that it only really matters what is on the inside.
It’s a fairly overused idea, that it’s only what’s on the inside that matters, but the way this film executes it is original and shows a purely emotional relationship. By adding realism towards a relationship, and showing that both Woo-jin and Yi-soo work together to get through, it’s not only a healthy relationship, but a strong one. The Beauty Inside deals with a few controversial views, like how not every relationship has to be specifically boy-girl, as well as the idea of people feeling like one gender, when on the outside is the other. It’s a fairly recognized movie in the LGBTQ+ community, being used as a film that both Pansexuals (those who don’t care about gender) and transgender people can relate to. Sure, the amount of actors and actresses pulled in for five second cameos as Woo-jin might have been an attempt at pulling in a wide range of viewers, the movie’s core theme holds strong and is portrayed in it’s own ways throughout the film. The forming of the relationship between Woo-jin and Yi-soo is smooth and slow paced. While the movie got negative reviews for it being too slow, or about it’s controversial messages, the overall meaning of it gives it a good-good rating.
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