Synopsis:

A simple teenager Su-ho and the pretty and popular Su-Eun start dating. Their young love is the object of much jealousy from other students, but for Su-ho and Su-Eun, their love just seems splendid and eternal. However, Su-ho finds out something tragic about the girl he loves.

Review:

First of all I need to say that I was all excited to watch this movie, despite all the recent Bi-Kyo dating hints giving out in the public. I let you call me the jealous type, hey, at least I’m not in denial!

Anyways, as I was saying I was all damn excited about watching this movie, until my boats all sunk in at once by hearing in the first few lines the main girl of the story is so long dead and the story actually goes back in time. No need for a surprise? If that’s the only thing happening the whole time, you judge for yourself that how weak a story can be? ” The last thing I need to end my Holiday with, is a movie that lacks both Impact and substance,” I told myself.

From then on with a heart full of pain and a mind in automatic process of putting chips in place to find out the ending plots on its own, I found myself already bored in the first 10 min! Still kept on forcing my eyes to grasp all the details they could possibly get and to make a sensible meaning out of the dialogs, that I found myself already gave up from manic exhaustion on the min 34.

Trying not to make this review more melodramatic than the actual story plot, I should mention the amazing cinematography and picture in this movie. It was a genius attempt to advertise the country by taking the shots from so many stunning countryside locations along the southern coast of Korea. It Kind of added to my already awaken intense arousals for visiting the beautiful country of Korea. We’ll see how that goes ;)
Anyways, after good 10 withdrawal hours, I came back to the movie. Aaaaish this time the most pathetic Question-Answer I have ever heard in the Cinema history about the God and afterlife. Just an as advice, I’ve learned this in a hard way that whenever you hear in Korean movie/drama the lines goes like, ” let’s die together, or are you going to love someone after death too?” even those dead cells of my brain get this dizzy feeling to their stomach that oh yeah for sure the story ends up by the main character(s)’s death! *sniff*
Now the only question remaining is the process to the death or more importantly the place that the death occurs. Some of the already tested famous examples are in the snow, in ocean, under the tree on top of the hills,…while I was just thinking about the hills that finally the girl fell on to her knees on a cliff in beautiful Maemul Island.

This time around given all the above opportunities and even more the death occurred in the in the waiting room while she imagined herself on top of the same cliff she originally fainted and finally leukemia took her life away! (I tend to not mentions the names in my reviews firstly b/c not being Korean myself I assume not all my readers are Korean either, thus adding names that we cannot understand the meaning behind it or even relate to just makes us even more confused.)

Well, about the movie as a whole I personally don’t like it when the girls initiate the move, even thought I know the guys die for it.

Things I liked are firstly the Country accent! It was a nice try to pronounce the few proper phrases I knew now in country accent! I keep imagining The Face of the first Korean who would hear me trying it out for!

Aw, also cute Korean superstitions! Being the anthropology freak that I am, I loved it b/c it gave me so many hints. The beeper thing was so neat. Allowed them to leave a message on the same answering machine and didn’t need to be scolded by their parents. Gosh if I was a little smarter when I was in high school?!

Lastly, I agree with those people who though the love story of the guy’s grandpa was more interesting than the main characters. Also I kinda like the idea that the grandpa was selling coffins for a living, it made the story flew nicely around the concept of death. Since it happened to more than one or two people in the story it was nice cuz made you all in guard to accept the deaths one after another, so no need for elements of surprise!