"If Love Has Destiny" is a South Korean film, filmed in 2003, starring Sun Yezhen and Cao Chengyou. The Chinese name of the film has many translations, and it is also called "Don't Believe Fate" and "Love Has Destiny". I still like the translation if love has heaven's will, a hypothetical tone, which gives the audience unlimited space to answer questions. If love has the providence, do you choose to work hard to get it, or choose to wait for love to come; if love has the providence, you are ready to have it and have nothing else to ask for, or is it not for everlasting, just for having it? Every audience has its own story, so every audience has its own answer, and every answer is a standard answer. The answer given in the film is: if love has the providence, let it shuttle between the two worlds, cleverly continue, and make people have to believe in fate.
In the 130-minute movie, the director tried his best to describe the storyline and show the relationship between the characters in the first 80 minutes. It looks like an ordinary love movie without any special features. But in the next 50 minutes, the film took a turn, pushing emotions to a climax step by step. From Cao Seungwoo’s resolute participation, Sun Yezhen’s moving cry on the train station, Cao Seungwoo’s lifeless recovery of the necklace on the battlefield, and the reunion of the two in the restaurant many years later, Sun Yezhen finally scattered Cao Seungwoo’s ashes to them when they were young. The river that used to be frolicking, these five fragments continue to flood the audience like a flood, preventing the audience from having a chance to catch their breath. But we are not tired, because the director tried his best to pave the way for the first 80 minutes. At this time, the emotions of the audience are like a flood of digging a bank, and it is not cleared. I don't know how many girls burst into tears when watching the film. As a boy, I had tears in my eyes in the second half of the film.
I think the reason why the film is touching is that it can be particularly quiet but not dull, so that every audience is slowly integrated into the film, so in the second half of the film, the audience naturally follows the protagonist. She sighed and shed tears of fate. In terms of content, there are no fierce conflicts in the film, no exciting plot arrangements, and even the heroes and heroines are silently fighting when facing where the love is going. In terms of picture style, it is not particularly beautiful compared with other big movies, but it looks very clean and comfortable. The small bridges, rivers, bushes, and country roads all seemed so familiar, just like the villages where we were playing in our childhood, it seemed particularly close. And the set of scenes where the heroine and heroine catch fireflies by the bridge brings our thoughts back to the innocent age when we were young. Once upon a time, we also came here like this, but the atmosphere in the film is a little more romantic. In the performance, the heroes and heroines are simple and natural, especially Son Yejin, who play two roles, one is lively and beautiful, and the other is graceful and pleasant. She is not the kind of person who is particularly dazzling, but she has the fresh temperament of the girl next door. When she comes slowly in the ox cart in the film, you will definitely feel that she is so pure and kind, and when it is her At the train station, crying to the male protagonist "When you want to come back alive", you must also cry with the cry of following her.
The theme song of the film and several interludes add to the film a lot. A lot of time in the film is filled with background music, and even shots of the male protagonist on the battlefield, followed by the theme song of "If Love Has Providence". When the fast song "Relative Silent" appeared, the film was filled with a relaxed and happy atmosphere, while the slow song "If Love Has Providence" made the film full of romantic sadness when it appeared. Other episodes also appropriately catered to the needs of the plot. If there were no songs such as "If Love Has Providence", the film would definitely be eclipsed, but with these few such classic songs, the whole film is full of moving. The tear-jerking love story is rendered so classic and touching with the background of music.
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