This was, predictably, a huge miss. Cheese in the Trap has four loooooooong volumes, the drama was already too limited to tell the story, so a film? oof, so much was rushed, and so much got excluded.

Everything was underdeveloped, the characters, their relationships, their history with one another. Seol's academic life is non-existent, we just see her attending class, but we don't see how much her college education means to her, her money issues are also not discussed, her family was not even introduced, so you miss out on the complicated and interesting relationship she has with them, she really only exists as a love interest.

The Baek siblings were also a huge victim of the script. In-ho's passion for the piano was barely discussed, and the psychological struggle he's faced since graduating from high school was cut, In-ha's goals and how she was stifled by her family was also excluded, really the siblings had no depth here, just one or two flashbacks and a bunch of scenes of them being violent. And the relationship between In-ho and Seol? There's nothing there, you would never guess this story is supposed to have a love triangle subplot.

And then there's the cast... one thing I can't complain about the drama was how well-casted it was, truly perfect, from the leads to the supporting characters. The film's cast was missing a lot, from charisma to chemistry, it was completely devoid of emotion.

(I also truly disliked the editing and score choices, it was so chirpy and quirky at times, it threw me off).