American subtlety

Lon 2022-03-21 09:01:45

Maybe it's because I've always instinctively rejected everything in Korea. I didn't know that "The Lake House" was a remake of South Korea's "Untouchable Lovers". Downloaded it on the school BT, and the person who made the seed wrote 06 Keanu Reeves' moving and tear-jerking blockbuster very provocatively. He was right though, because at the end, the moment Kate was kneeling in the snow and crying, I really wanted to cry and felt a tear that had stopped on the edge of my eyelid.

I was almost ready to "die in your arms" at the last minute. But tragedy turns into comedy at the end, and nothing escapes Jane Austen's Persuasion. wait and meet again.

Even so I still like it. Perhaps there is still an instinctive dislike of Korean films, thinking that it makes everything so hypocritical and illusory, and that it is too far away from me to indulge in the so-called aesthetics. But the Americans made it so real, as if at that moment, the man gently rubbing the tip of my nose was me.

Some netizens say that Americans will never be able to capture the subtlety of the East. But I think Reeves has done it perfectly. A quiet love, like slowly yellowing paper, the handwriting faded in the years, read it again, still so clear.

In addition, the question of space-time dimension seems to be open to discussion. If Alex hadn't died in Kate's arms two years ago, Kate wouldn't have gone to that hut, then he and she wouldn't have known each other. Seems like a circular paradox, but needs no further exploration.

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The Lake House quotes

  • Alex: [after he saw her at the subway station in 2004] I don't know if you remember but, we saw each other. That is, I saw you. You never told me... how beautiful you were.

    Kate: Well, maybe you saw someone else. That was a bad hair year for me.

    Alex: Long brown hair, gentle unguarded eyes...

    Kate: OK, OK. You saw me. But I still don't know what you look like.

  • Kate: It was you. Why didn't you tell me?

    Alex: You would've thought I was crazy or drunk. Or both.