love to not love

Monserrat 2022-04-22 07:01:48

Zhiyu and Shixi have been deeply in love for two years. Shixi always thinks that Zhiyu's love for her will be cold. Because of such worries, he becomes neurotic and regards women all over the world as rivals. Because of such a fanatical love, she was worried that Ji Woo would become bored with her appearance and body over time, so she decided to have plastic surgery after disappearing from Ji Woo's world. Appeared by the person he loved deeply; half a year later, he reunited with Zhiyu and fell in love with the flow, but he was struggling in his heart, neither wanting Zhiyu to forget her before, nor to be cold to himself because of her before, finally. The split personalities reunite again, and Ji Woo understands everything, can't accept it, is overwhelmed, and runs for plastic surgery. Se Hee, who lost Ji Woo, frantically searches for every man on the road, shakes the hand of every stranger in the cafe where they once dated to see if it is the right size. When a man who might be Ji Woo shows up, but his face is bloodied after being hit by a car, Se Hee collapses and walks into the plastic surgery hospital again.

Time, plastic surgery, love, and identity, the four elements shuttle in the movie. Time destroys everything, including love. Plastic surgery is to change the identity. If the identity is changed, it is a new love, and it has its shelf life. The separation of appearance and identity, and the separation of love in time, this is the source of the director's desire to make us uncomfortable. There is a cycle at the beginning and the end. This is not a weird story, but modern feelings have tended to be so weird, and the director exaggerated it. What I admire most is that what I think should be described more is that when a man falls in love with a body with a strange face and a familiar face, a woman's personality is split. It should be that she hopes that a man can love her for a long time, and she also wants her new face. It can keep love fresh, but this struggle is only manifested when a woman slaps a sleeping man after having sex with a man.
Hold the hour hand, time will not stop, and changing your identity will not keep love. The life of a white horse. Everything, including love, will eventually return to calm. The passage of time and the stagnation of the past are constantly expressed in the film. The scenes cross over and over again in the sculpture park where they once left beautiful memories. Eternal love is not built on the basis of lust, but the time flowing between the hands. The ebb and flow is showing such a passage and something that can be solidified. The elapsed time can never be recovered. If you try to use artificial means to keep it, it will only bring tragedy. Love to the point of not being able to love. Love to the point where only irretrievable memories remain.

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  • Ji-woo: [Having been rudely awakened] Did... did you just slap me? Why did you do that?

    See-hee: Because I love you.