Never Forever

I admit I watch this because of Vera Farmiga, but then while im watching it, its getting good , i like the story its one my fave movie of Vera now

This heartbreaking drama stars Vera Farmiga as Sophie Lee, a woman utterly devoted to her upper-crust Korean Catholic husband Andrew(David McInnis)that finds herself in a depressive situation; when she finds she's unable to get pregnant. This predicament seems to cause dishonor toward her husband and Sophie feels her marriage is in grave danger. She decides to entertain an affair with a Korean immigrant(Jung-woo Ha). She is willing to pay the young man for his services; with even a bigger payday upon her pregnancy. This fateful decision soon threatens to bring about emotional and mental anxiety nearing total despair. The story line is touching, but I was not so happy with Farmiga's hairstyle and wardrobe. Why make such a beautiful woman appear so bland? Other players include: Marceline Hugot, Kari Swenson Riley, Joseph Y. Kim and Shirley Roeca.

First of all I hate Vera Farmiga. She is so ugly it is creepy. It begins with a funeral then the very hot husband tries to commit suicide. The fool of a wife Vera decides to fix all their problems by sleeping with a poor man she stalked to get pregnant so she can pass the kid off as her husbands. Selfish disgusting and stupid. That is exactly what this poor husband needs is to be supporting another mans kid. The film has very little dialoge just sad sex scenes between her and the not so hot dude. She doesnt even tell her name till the third encounter. The best part is when she tries to shame him for her paying $300 a pop and $30k when she gets pregnant. I am sorry. You dont have a leg to stand on lady. Then she tells him her husband wants to die which is why she is cheating. I am a woman but God women are disgusting. Women who this far to have children should never be allowed around kids ever. Sick. I hope she can afford this kids therapy. I need it after this movie

While the romance genre is something I'm new to, I'd have to say this was one of the best ones I've seen (please remember, I've only watched about 5 romance movies in my 32 years of life). A love that develops between people of two different races and cultures is something that I find very fascinating. It proves that we all want the same thing, no matter what creed, culture, race, nation, religion, whatever we come from. That being said, Vera Farmiga puts on her best "desperate woman" role (I believe she won the Emmy for Bates Motel for playing a character I'd describe as such). Desperate to please her Korean-American husband and his family, she goes to a sperm clinic alone and witnesses a Korean man with an expired visa getting rejected as a donor. Intrigued by the possibility of covertly and unmaliciously fooling her husband by having sex with a Korean man simply for the sake of having a baby she can at least pretend belongs to her and her husband, she follows the rejected sperm donor and eventually gives him a business proposal. What follows is story of inner conflict, the desire (and simultaneous torment) to live up to societal and cultural expectations (and how they can get in the way of true love), as well as how other things out of our control can get in the way of being with the one we want. While the epilogue left me a little confused, I was for the most part enraptured by the film. I think it'd be appealing to anyone having trouble finding true happiness and love. Also, did Vera break the 4th wall at the end?

Never Forever was a great movie. I was not sure what to expect since I do not recall the film ever being promoted even as an Indie; and I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this film. I really love Vera Farmiga's acting and I truly enjoyed the diversity of the actors. I have started to really appreciate more diversity in the sex appeal Asian actors in general. This is the second film I have seen in the last month with Korean and other Asian actors and I find the quality of their acting superb and I find the actors very sexy, attractive and appealing. I am somewhat shock that more people have not seen this movie or appreciated what this movie bring to the table. Sophie was desperate to help her husband fight his "demons" and attempted to give him something to hold on to. This movie is a must watch. I truly loved this film!

Long story short: Sophie and her husband Andrew can't have children so Sophie, on her own and without saying anything to her husband, decides to start banging Jihah, a Korean man who looks somewhat similar to her husband. It's an interesting concept, and the film was rolling along -- right up to the point that Sophie announces she's pregnant. That's when things began to head south. And I REALLY started hating this film the minute pregnant Sophie goes back to have sex with her surrogate turkey baster. I was actually yelling at the screen: "Don't do it, Sophie. Don't do it". (Needless to say, she didn't listen, and went ahead and did it.) That in and of itself might not have been so bad, if she at least had had the integrity to be honest with her husband. (You know...the person she was SUPPOSEDLY doing all this for in the first place.) But no...she lied. And cheated. And continued to lie and cheat throughout the rest of the film -- all the while telling her surrogate turkey baster how much she loved her husband. She even goes so far as to demand from her surrogate turkey baster that he tell her that: "This baby is his (her husband's). Please tell me this baby is his." It's an interesting film. The acting was excellent, especially Vera Farmiga as Sophie. But the message is all wrong. Sophie is not any sort of a victim or a hero; she's just a plain old fashioned run of the mill ho. So when it comes to the end, which focuses exclusively on whether or not Sophie is now happy, the only emotional response I felt at that point was disdain.

I thought Never Forever despite it's kooky title was pretty effective in it's main drive of the story - Romance. To call it predictable would be putting it mildly. Early on, the story corners itself into a very well-trodden seen before aspect. But that doesn't mean it's dull. I quite enjoyed especially Verma Farmiga and Jung-Woo Ha in their romance - one more out of loneliness. They both looked lost, but came together well. The conflict and circumstances involved unfortunately feels forced and contrived - luckily the actors generally lift up the material. I especially enjoyed the nuances of the sexuality of the affair - starting as a business but becoming something more primal when emotions begin to overcome rationality. The director does a good job of implicating this and giving us plenty of evidence to convince us. We can see, understand, and feel their raw emotions. Pretty good entertainment for the romance and affair itself.

(Spoilers !!) This is an annoying film.. as it insults the intelligence of its' audience for the sake of a storyline. As no intelligent individual who is committed to, and in love with their partner would enter into such a secretive, illicit, sexual affair in order to produce a child. They simply would do what tens of thousands of other couples do, and sign on to an in-vitro program. And from there this irrational story goes even further down the rabbit hole, when they abandon their spouse because the infidelity (and a previously undisclosed abortion) is uncovered, and the spouse (not surprisingly) refuses to enter into such a situation. The whole mess ends with her smiling, happily frolicking somewhere on a beach (maybe outside the country?) with her deported immigrant lover's kid.. and she is once again pregnant with another of his children. The ex left well behind, for no reason other than he shoots blanks..and she wanted a baby not from a tube, but the hot & steamy fashion. Usually like Farmiga a lot.. she was not bad here, but should have taken a pass on this contrived B- time waster.

Vera Farmiga plays an affluent woman whose life and marriage is unraveling. She and her Korean husband have been trying without success to get pregnant. Her suicidal husband has given up on the idea, but it's become an obsession with her, the one thing that will fix everything that's broken. She makes a proposition to a young Korean immigrant -- she will pay him $300 in cash every time they have sex, with an additional $30,000 in cash if she conceives. I had my doubts before watching this film that the screenplay would be able to make this premise plausible, but it does. It sets things up in such a way that they play out honestly, without feeling overly manipulated by the hands of a screenwriter or director. It helps tremendously that Farmiga gives such a good performance -- you have to really understand her character if the movie is going to make any sense, and we do, thanks to Farmiga's commitment to the role. Though ambiguous, the ending suggests a happy ending that DID feel implausible to me. But the rest of the movie is such a downer that I actually didn't mind it, because I just wanted something positive to happen to this poor woman. Grade: B+

"Never Forever" is a deeply flawed movie replete with missed opportunities that whiz right past like rush hour buses in front of a motionless commuter. It is also well worth seeing, for a riveting performance by Vera Farmiga, a suggestive plot, and its treatment of unusual topics. Sophie (Vera Farmiga), a beautiful, blonde, trophy wife, is determined to give Andrew (David McGinnis) her "master-of-the-universe," very wealthy and successful husband, the child he cannot father himself. He is infertile. Her husband is Korean, so she chases down Jihah, (Jung-Woo Ha) an illegal Korean immigrant, and offers him three hundred dollars for every time he has sex with her, and thirty thousand dollars once she gets pregnant. The two perform the act with complete alienation, but eventually develop feelings for each other. The plot, is, of course, implausible. It reaches its height of silliness when Sophie tells Jihah she will pay him the bonus of $30,000 if she gets pregnant. Why the bonus? Would he really not have sex with this beautiful woman for three hundred dollars if he did not get the bonus? Are there other beautiful women out there offering bonuses of $25,000, and does Sophie need to remain competitive? Further, Sophie reveals no knowledge that a woman is fertile for a short window every month. Is she having sex with Jihah outside of that window of opportunity? Apparently so, because no seasons pass; all the action seems to take place during the same month. Finally, why not just go to a sperm bank, or use a turkey baster? Indeed, why does Sophie remove every stitch of clothing? You really don't need to remove everything you've got on in order to perform the act necessary for pregnancy. The film's marketers show a healthy respect for the market appeal of * Vera Farmiga. Most of the action takes place in Sophie and Andrew's rich, cold, white, empty house and Jihah's squalid, lurid, red-and-green walled tenement. The director did not create enough atmosphere with these two sets. I never get a sense of Jihah's room. In one scene, it rains. That scene should have been milked for all it was worth: two strangers, separated by race and class, united for a moment, in a tiny apartment, as rain falls outside. Sigh. Also, so much more could have been done with the sex scenes, which are rather flat and unimaginative. Sophie and Jihah connect, and transcend barriers of race and class, through this one act. I wish that they had been depicted with more eloquence. In spite of the criticisms, this movie is well worth seeing. It isn't prurient. It's really a fairy tale about connection in spite of distance. Like a fairy tale, the film suggests and evokes more than it depicts, and the viewer's imagination is left to fill in the blanks. "Never Forever" is also worth seeing because it is unusual. This is the only American film with a Korean-born Korean lead with a thick Korean accent that many viewers may ever see. Finally, the film is worth seeing for Vera Farmiga's riveting performance. She conveys volumes with a glance. Sophie is not very bright, and has limited strength. She sits around her gilded cage all day, while her maid cleans her house and her husband works. She's, simply, not very likable, but Farmiga makes Sophie very watchable. Jung-Woo Ha as Jihah is also fascinating. He's not particularly good looking. He makes for a convincing illegal immigrant. He is short, slight, and wears stained t-shirts. As the film draws closer to him and spends more time with him, though, the viewer can see what is special about him, and comes to care about him – this process parallels the experience of falling in love. At first the other may come across as not that special, but as two people get closer together, they see what is special about the other.