The place where the story takes place is "IL MARE", "IL MARE" means "sea" in Italian. The beginning of the camera is the boundless, gray-blue sea, and as the screen slowly overflows to you, the tone of the whole story has been established: romantic, sad, and out of bounds.
This is also the charm of the movie, it can abandon all conventional thinking, take you to any place, any time and space, and encounter any person.
The creator of "IL MARE" - Xingxian, male, lives in the time and space of 1998; the tenant of "IL MARE" - Enshu, female, lives in the time and space of 2000. But the letterbox on the seaside in winter brings two lives living in different spaces together.
For a long time when I was a child, I firmly believed that there must be a secret passage hidden in a certain corner of the temple, which can connect you with the dead. It's just that the channel in the film is changed to a small mailbox.
Xingxian doesn't believe that Eunshu exists in the future, so she thinks she is a psychic after the puppy steps on the paw print and Hezhen catches a cold. Eun Shu couldn't believe that Xing Xian really stayed in 1998, but she thought he wasn't joking. Time must have been warped somewhere, because there's no way that puppy named Coke could be in two places at the same time. They exchange details of their lives and revel in such sharing.
In different New Years, they experience the same time period: when they each taste the taste of noodles, but they seem to be sitting opposite each other at the same table, looking at each other; when they feel lonely in the "sea", they drink a A can of beer, running frantically, and then having fun on the Viking, they seem to be holding hands with each other and frantically having fun; under the tree-lined avenues of Mumo, they walk alone, like two people walking back and forth, when they are tired, they walk together. coffee shop drinking the same bottle of wine) went through the same thing and was fortunate enough to know each other through correspondence. Just like in the picture book of Jimmy, maybe they have fed the same cat, the same pigeon, or even the same baby. This little touch makes them happy,
But she still can't forget her old boyfriend. "I thought I had forgotten him, but I broke down when I heard his voice." When she repeatedly said sorry to Xingxian and begged him to help her stop her boyfriend from leaving, although Xingxian fell in love with Eunshu , in such a time stagger, but they can never meet.
In the movie, Xingxian in 1998 came to the subway station under the prompt of Enshu in 2000. Facing the passing and expressionless Enshu, Xingxian said to himself: In your heart, I am A meaningless stranger? We outside the screen are also regretful at this moment that "the old people meet and don't know each other".
Yeouido, March 25, 1998, Morning Cafe. Enshu's boyfriend is going to leave for three years, and Enshu is restless. Xingxian walked across the road from outside the window.
Enshu's drink cup suddenly fell to the ground and shattered, and outside the window, Xingxian was flying in the sky, and then fell heavily on the ground, blood running down his head on the ground. His last glance had complicated connotations, and was the last tear a helplessness for this untouchable love? His last outstretched hand still didn't touch anything.
Enshu wanted to run to the old mailbox as soon as possible, so on the tie they communicated in the suburbs, they had to tell Xingxian not to go to the place where she was rescued. And that morning, Xingxian came out and passed the mailbox without opening it.
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