Daisy review: they all guarded the girl as a daisy, but buried her life

First things first, this movie must be seen in the original! The Mandarin dub really pulls down the feel.
I've seen a lot of Korean films and to their credit they do a great job of realism, but the glassy heart in me has always been too far away from films like Suwon and The Melting Pot to watch them in detail. It's not that it's not good, but it's just too realistic and the subject matter is too uncomfortable.
So this Korean film I recommend is a romance that is so beautiful but so sad that you don't know when to start the tears. It's called 'Daisy' and the film is not well known and even a little cold, but the 8.0 Douban rating tells you that it's definitely a film that you won't regret watching.
The film is directed by Hong Kong director Lau Wai-keung and stars Jung Yu-sung, Lee Sung-jae and Jeon Ji-hyun.
Jun Ji-hyun plays Hui-ying, a romantic and talented girl by nature, who accidentally drops her bag containing paintbrushes into a small river when she goes back to the countryside for a picnic.
When she returns to the creek a few days later, she finds that the original one-wooden bridge has been transformed into a small wooden bridge, and her bag is hanging on the edge of it. A happy Hye Young leaves a painting of a daisy on the bridge as a reward for this mysterious kind-hearted person.
Back in the city, Hye Young continues to go to the square to paint for others, but unlike usual, she starts to receive a bouquet of daisies every day. Hye Young, who has never been in love before, feels a sense of loss that she wants to fall in love but can't find anyone, and this feeling is finally broken by a policeman named Jung Woo as she suffers day after day.
Jung-woo is just trying to use Hye Young as a smoke screen so that he can sit in the square and watch for hidden suspects. In return, Jung-woo brings a pot of daisies for Hye Young, but coincidentally, Hye Young takes it for the mystery man.
Without incident, the two fall in love, only to be deeply stung by the mysterious man not far away who watches over Hye Young every day.
It's the most common love triangle trope in Korean dramas, but it runs into all sorts of coincidences because the one Jung-woo is looking for is the mysterious man who guards Hye Young every day with a sniper rifle.
The mystery man tries to pull the trigger on Jung-woo several times, but out of professionalism as a bounty hunter, he cannot kill anyone outside of his mission. Finally one day a melee broke out in the square and the mystery man saved Hye Young's life, but Hye Young was still hit by a stray bullet, causing damage to his vocal cords and never being able to speak again. And Jung-woo was sent back to recuperate from his gunshot wound.
When he finally stops seeing this eyesore, the mystery man finds the courage to go up to Hye Young and ask her to draw a picture, only to find that she has drawn the mystery man as Jung Woo. He is heartbroken, but he pretends not to care.
In the days when Jung-woo was away, the mystery man slowly came into Hye Young's life. He stayed with Hye Young, watching her describe the man who sent her flowers, watching her smile as she remembered the little bridge, and wanting to tell her many times that he was the man, but never daring to say so because of his status, he could not put such a pure girl in danger.
When Jung-woo returns again, it is with the news of a break-up, because he feels that it is his fault that Hye Young has lost her voice and wants to take all the possible danger away from her. Unable to speak, Hye Young can only bang on the door, desperately trying to stay.
Both men want to protect her, like a delicate, beautiful daisy.
Jung-woo dies at the hands of another bounty hunter, and Hye Young finally learns that Park Yi is the one who built the bridge, but the film doesn't end as well as I thought it would. The painting of the daisy, used to prove first love, is stained with blood and falls to the ground.
The whole film has a romantic to the point of bone-chilling sadness. Had it not been for Jung-woo's sudden intrusion, they would have had a memory of their first love with no ending. It is not complete but not fatal either.
It's not clear whether Hye Young is in love with Jung Woo or Park Yi, or if it's just the rosy feeling of her first love that she falls in love with, the daisy that makes her fall for Jung Woo, and the fact that she finds out that it's Park Yi who's fixing the flowers on the bridge and goes out of her way to take the bullet for him.
Many people think that the female lead's relationship line is a bit implausible, but when you think back, who doesn't feel the uncertainty of falling in love for the first time?
Everyone has gone through such an emotional journey, but the difference is that Hye Young's is a bit more dramatic, as the two opposing sides become the crossroads of her emotions.
Two men really fall in love with her, while she falls in love with perhaps just the daisy.