Thousand Leaves 2.0

I should have watched this movie first before I watched the Hollywood version, The Lake House. Well.

The original idea of, having two persons communicating between two different time only through a post box isn’t new, but the arrangement is refreshing. From the Korean version, it seems to me Korean or Asian, there is a kind of naive or pureness thinking to have a way of expressing loneniness. Only focus the hero/ine. I don’t know, it makes the movie sort of boring sometimes. That’s the culture, may be.

The Lake House gives better entertainment elements, for a movie goer. Oh, the marketing imperial! Never mind, never mind. That’s how hollywood movie is like. There is no good or bad, but preference.

Hard to compare though, for story line and the loneliness — as the standalone house means —, I would prefer the original one, especially the ending. It doesn’t end there, rather it keeps the audience with a continuity of the tales. This feeling reminds me like I am reading a novel. Whether a movie should be this way or not, it doesn’t matter here.

Whereas for The Lake House, I don’t know why, it seems to give me a feeling that it wants the audience to feel secured to fall back on reality before leaving the cinema. Letting audience go doesn’t mean the story ends though, tale ends perfectly. Life goes on.

First of all to Dave, it was yesterday, 2nd June, huh? Happy belated birthday!

And to Miho, yours is today, right? Sorry for not having time to even to go over for a while.

I am busy, as usual. Surviving. Life goes on.