In layman's terms, it is a divorced woman who holds a high compensation, finds her first love as an architect, and asks him to help design and rebuild an old house in her hometown of Jeju Island, and in the process of building the house, she looks back on the past and re-acquaints herself with the other person. own old story. However, the director and screenwriter, who studied architecture by himself, based on a rigorous and pragmatic creative concept, presented us with a complete structure, seemingly old-fashioned, but endless aftertaste, and even everyone can integrate himself into the script of the movie role .
The whole film is fresh and simple, and the two lines between the student days and 15 years later are clear and clear. With the reunion of the hero and heroine 15 years later, the love that died in the student days was brought out. Fifteen years ago, Yang Ruiyan, the heroine of the music department, went to the class of Introduction to Architecture because she had a crush on the senior architecture student, and met Li Shengmin, the actor majoring in architecture. The two people who had a good impression of each other quickly became friends, but Yang Ruiyan, who was cheerful and sunny, and had a good family background, seemed too good, while Li Shengmin at that time was afraid of taking a step forward because of his inferiority and timidity. In the end, it broke up due to misunderstanding. Maybe young emotions are always progressing through mutual guessing and speculation. This feeling is good, but if there is a slight deviation, it will die prematurely. This is the embodiment of the so-called secret love. Fifteen years later, when Yang Ruiyan found Li Shengmin, Li Shengmin lost his mind for a moment and blurted out: Who are you? I think he still did not let go of his misunderstanding until 15 years later, so he pretended not to know. When we have something to hate in our hearts, when others ask, the answer that comes out of our mouths should be almost the same as Li Shengmin. In the process of remodeling the house, the two of them always travel back and forth between Seoul and Jeju Island, working alone and getting to know each other again. Like old friends, looking back and talking about family, when they can talk without any scruples, will happen at the airport quarrel about mother. And this quarrel is the driving point for the development of the film's plot, allowing them to truly understand the current situation and changes of the two sides in the past 15 years, and try to think from the perspective of the other side.
There are a few scenes that are well shot:
1 In order to thank Li Shengmin, Yang Ruiyan invited him to dinner. Because he had eliminated his rigid and monotonous tie before, he bought a tie for him as a gift. But I didn't know that Li Shengmin also brought Eun Cai, a female colleague from the studio. In the conversation, Yang Ruiyan was actually leading the conversation, asking if Li Shengmin was not in a relationship? Lee Seung Min smiled without saying a word, while Eun Chae next to him was smiling. While Lee Seung Min was walking away, he asked if Eun Chae had a boyfriend? Eun Chae obviously wanted to reveal her secret office romance in front of Seo Yeon and revealed the fact that she was about to get married. The momentary loss in Ruoyan's eyes revealed her loss. She clearly wanted to start over, but no one would stay in place for the rest of her life, even if she hoped so. Interestingly, Eun Chae also revealed to her that Seung Min said that his first love in college was a dead woman, and the expressions of Seo Yeon and Seung Min at this time are worth pondering.
2 Seungmin will marry Eun Chae and go to America after completing this work. When discussing this with Seo Yeon at the airport, Seo Yeon asked her mother what to do, and Seungmin got angry and said what else could be done. Did you just live with her mother here? On the meager wages that are only enough to live and rent. Shengmin, who came from a poor family, has ideals and ambitions. Knowing that when he leaves, only his elderly mother will be left to live alone, and he is also very reproachful in his heart. But the pressure of life, the poor family since childhood, he wants to change the status quo, and he will get angry with Rui Yan, and even point out that Rui Yan has money and time to live alone, so he will say these nasty things. Seo Yeon, who had been pretending to be living a good life, almost collapsed. What he said about having money and time was exactly what she thought was the least valuable. Bright on the outside, barren and boring on the inside. The same two people were tortured by life, but the way of torture was different.
3 Before going to America, Shengmin asked his mother, what if he stayed? His mother scolded him and took out the money she had saved all her life as a wedding gift. This is the money that a mother who usually splits a penny into two, and whose refrigerator is full of stale food, saves money for her son. Shengmin burst into tears when he saw his mother wearing the T-shirt he wanted to throw away 15 years ago because it was a pirated guess. At this time, I suddenly thought that I have been out alone for more than a year. Sometimes when I video chat with my mother, I see my mother wearing the clothes that I don't wear when I stay at home. It's not bad, just wear it at home. This is my mother, who always thinks about me and is willing to give me the best conditions to the best of her ability, but sometimes she always ignores herself. Any mother in the world is great, it's just a different way of expressing it. When I watch movies, I am rarely moved by love, but every time I describe family love, it always touches the deepest part of my heart. No matter how you repay in the future, it may not be possible to catch up with your parents' efforts.
4 In the end, Shengmin left. When he was looking out of the window on the plane, I thought he was saying goodbye, saying goodbye to the country he had lived in all his life, to his mother and first love, and to his old days. Before leaving, he returned the CD and CD player to Seo Yeon, as well as a song "Study of Memory" that they both liked. The past is gone, just like the door of Shengmin's mother's house, he kicked a bad corner 15 years ago, and it will be impossible for him to tie the game 15 years later, so before he leaves, he will be there. I cried bitterly in front of the door, for those days that I couldn't go back, and for my own lack of courage back then.
The ingenious thing about the movie is that there are intersections and intersections between them. 15 years ago, Seo Yeon left her father alone and went to university in Seoul, while Seung Min lived with her mother. After 15 years, Seungmin left South Korea and went to the United States to develop, and Seoyeon returned to Jeju Island to spend his last days with his father. The description of family affection in the movie is very bland but very moving, just because these are the normal conditions of life, we can't control our life, and we can't change the past, so let's do what we should do at the moment.
The director is a male science student studying architecture. The entire film is handled with both romance and rationality coexisting. This is also the reason why I like to watch plays by male directors. For the hero and heroine 15 years ago, there are regrets, and the hero even resents. After reuniting again, they expressed their intentions, but each walked away, went their own way, and started their own new lives. It is useless to make up for what has been missed. The only choice to make is to cherish the present! Therefore, the fact that the male and female protagonists are not together at the end is the biggest highlight of the film. The imperfect ending may make the audience sigh, but after sighing, they will feel, ah, this is how reality should be!
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