The love of memory and the love of amnesia

Norwood 2022-03-21 09:02:53

I have to admit one thing first. Japan and South Korea have unique aesthetic viewpoints in the production of love dramas. They will not give up if they do not make love beautiful and touching (of course, on the other hand, they also show violence and coercive repression), Whether your tears are swirling in your eyes or silently flowing in your heart, in short, this purpose seems to be the only way for them to express the beauty of love.

The West pays attention to the bold and enthusiastic "Romantic", while the East's "Romantic" is implicitly slow and open.

two movies. One "Eraser in My Mind" is from South Korea; one "Calling Love in the Center of the World" is from Japan.

Is love only eternal and short-lived in people's eyes? Is love a cessation before amnesia, or a deep wound in memory? Is love real or fictional? This may increasingly seem like a philosophical question.

"I want to leave you before I forget our love." ---"Eraser in My Mind"

"The fraction of the time spent with you is the most precious in my life.… .Imagine you growing up, graduating, working, getting married in the days to come, thinking that you will continue to live every day in the future, and I can sleep peacefully tonight." - "In the World" The lines in the love drama "The Center Calls for Love"

sometimes don't pay attention to flamboyance, but more to make people feel the sincere beauty of love in plain words. Every word seems to be plain from the heart. In the love drama, Shanmeng vows will make this love wear a clichéd coat, and sometimes the appropriate appearance will make up for the flood of falsehood.

Love is a part of real life. Don't worry too much about how great or romantic it is, the bland duo sometimes only have some episodic stories in specific scenes. Don't pile on too many defenses in love. People who love you will naturally cherish every point you give. What people who don't love pay is a repeated waste, repeated meaningless actions. Love is to be spoken, and words are a very necessary premise, but it is precisely for me that sometimes I love the expression of silence. When I think of Mo Ran in "The Empty Room", they are almost speechless, but their hearts can be drawn. so close.


"Eraser in My Mind" is a bottle of Coke that drives the development of the plot, and the camera always properly shows the warm eyes of the hero and heroine.
"Calling for Love in the Center of the World" is a tape that controls the slowness and rapidity of the plot, and the repeated flashbacks are the traces of youthful love.

Walking slowly along a clue, every object in the romantic drama may cause the plot to have another branch extension.



Both romance dramas have questioned memory, whether memory brings love or memory takes love away.

"The Eraser in My Mind" slowly revealed the truth of the heroine's amnesia as the plot deepened, and the climax also followed. In order to maintain this beautiful emotional time, the heroine accidentally happened to When he regained his memory, he resolutely left the hero, just to leave when he still remembered this time so as to avoid facing the hero in a strange way when he lost his memory.

"Calling Love in the Center of the World" happens to be about the memory of indelible love in the depths of memory. When the typhoon came, the hero returned to his hometown because of the sudden departure of his current girlfriend. So the memory appeared appropriately, and the love time that was once young but engraved in the heart was rewinded again. Boxes of tapes told the pure love of youth and youth, hitting the depths of the protagonist's soul, and the typhoon came again. gone, the memory also scattered.



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Memory

Where is my love ?
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In the end, the former ends with the retrieval of memories, the latter ends with the scattering of memories. Is it all over, no. When the sun shines down, love slows down. Who knows when the next love will start. The city is pale and dull. This kind of love drama is used to reflect these things.

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A Moment to Remember quotes

  • Cheol-su: [subtitles] If you forget everything, I'll pop up out of nowhere. Like now. And I'll hit on you. You won't be able to turn me down. We'll start anew every day. Like permanent dating. Awesome, isn't it?

  • Cheol-su: [subtitles] When a memory is gone, so is the soul, they say.