love, four seasons, sound, video

Blanca 2022-10-26 21:30:22

I know very well that the feeling of love fades, just like old photos. But you will always stay in my heart, forever beautiful, until the last moment of my life. Thank you and see you again.
------ "August Photo Studio"


weekend nights were originally used for rest, because I had to go to work the next day. But I slept very late last night, and "August Photo Studio" was playing on TV. I bought the CD and watched it more than once, but I still burst into tears in front of the TV.

A detailed film, just like those beautiful Korean romance films.

Sad but not hurt, there is an endless connection between life and death.

Life and death are on the line.

Jung Won (Han Seok Gyu) is the young owner of a small photo studio. Policewoman Doreen (Shen Yinhe) likes to take photos in his photo studio, and the two fall in love. Zheng Yuan did not let Doreen know one of his secrets: he was suffering from an incurable disease, and his death was coming soon. She did not know that her sweetheart was hospitalized due to illness, and she still came to the closed photo studio to wait. In the end, both of them have to accept their destiny.

In Zheng Yuan's small shop, countless stories are slowly unfolding. The middle school students held group photos of the girls' school and clamored to enlarge the photos of their favorite female classmates. The whole photo studio was noisy and noisy; the woman with the big head made a joke when she took the photo; a middle-aged woman took the photo of her young The photo needs to be restored; an old grandmother came alone to take a photo of the posthumous body that was prepared to be placed in front of the spiritual seat...

Death was not scary at first, it was just the moment of touching it. He knew that death was approaching him, step by step. He doesn't hide or grieve, family, that's everything.
Doreen showed up. Girls in their 20s are the most youthful blooming. The afternoon sun shone into the small photo studio, and the girl muttered that it was too hot. They chatted like that, day in and day out.

Looking at these, Zheng Yuan felt the breath of life from Doreen again.

However, he finally left. He didn't want to die like that, white Christmas, not yet.

I don't know when the tears started. His last satisfied smile turned into a black and white portrait in an instant. At the moment when it was too late to be sad and sad, the natural ebb and flow of life, the rise and fall, was enough to make people reminisce for a long time. He didn't want to make her sad, he didn't want to make himself sad, he was satisfied and could leave.

The appearance of death was presented with a clear face from the very beginning, not sensational, not flamboyant, but the sadness that reached the top of the heart filled the ground. Even so, and because of this, ordinary pleasures make us rejoice.

Many things in life are beyond our grasp, such as staying and going, such as the wear and tear of love. At least, we tried hard to find, beauty can be eternal.

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Christmas in August quotes

  • Jung-won: [Sitting on a rubber tire in his old school playground] When I was a kid I always sat alone in the playground after the other boys had gone. Thinking about my late mother, it struck me that we'd all disappear in the end... my father, my sister, all my best friends.

  • [last lines]

    Jung-won: [narrating] I always knew that feelings of love would fade - just like old photographs. But for you... you will always remain in my heart, as you are in my last moment. Thank you, and goodbye.