In fact, I prefer the original title of this film "Time and Love", which I understand as "love thoughts that transcend time and space", or that you need to transcend time and space to find your own love thoughts. Compared with the colorful "My Sassy Girlfriend", Shi Yue Ai feels like the picture style in this film, which is low-key and dim, sometimes warm, sometimes cold, but also has a timeless feeling. There are also comments that this film is a Korean version of a love letter, but in addition to the use of color in some shots in the film and the theme of the letter, the plot and core of the story are far different from the love letter.
On the surface, the film is about a pair of men and women in different time and space who magically establish a letter connection through the mailbox of a seaside hut and eventually develop mutual affection, but in essence, the film describes a kind of loneliness and distance belonging to modern urban people. feel. Here are a few typical scenes, including: Jun Ji-hyun greets the neighbor after moving to a new apartment, but the other party does not respond; Lee Jung-jae cooks his own food indoors; Lee Jung-jae mentions that those who drink red wine are loners; Football and more. The biggest scene that exaggerates the loneliness of urban people is the theme of the film itself, a hut by the sea, a House with a modern design, but it stands on the edge of the vast sea, and it is difficult to find neighbors next to it. The setting of this scene itself already implies that urban people are actually like isolated individuals in modern society, lacking real communication and connection. It is precisely because of this sense of emptiness that the hero and heroine established a connection with each other who did not belong to their own era through magical mailboxes, and found a kind of psychological comfort for each other. Many people are still commenting on the scientific and logical problems of the time travel in this film, but I think these are not the focus of this film at all.
In the most dramatic scene of the film, in order to restore the relationship between the heroine and her old boyfriend, the hero went to the cafe where they broke up and met an unfortunate car accident and died, but ironically, the heroine went to school at the end. When I was looking for the whereabouts of the male protagonist, I realized that the man who encountered the car accident outside the window was the pen pal that he had been in contact with through time and space. In fact, there was a small episode before the film. The male protagonist helped the female protagonist to pick up the missing Walkman at the subway station and sent it back to the female protagonist through the mailbox. However, in the end, the female protagonist was unfortunately lost again in a car accident. In Walkman, it has actually been hinted that the heroine will not end well for the hero to restore what he has lost in the past. On the one hand, these storylines add to the poignant feeling of the film, and on the other hand, they also serve as a warning to modern people to live in the present rather than indulge in the past.
Finally, a classic line in the film is quoted: "The three things that people can't hide: love, poverty, and coughing." Regarding poverty and coughing, we may still need to avoid it in some occasions based on the consideration of dignity and civilization, but For the expression of love, why should everyone be stingy? But perhaps this is a romantic and beautiful shyness or sullenness that belongs to us Orientals.
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