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Zero character development....zero point

posted 3 months ago by SurferWilly (7)
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I feel that there's a lack of character development in both the man and woman. I don't feel I know enough of these two to care for them.

*spoiler*

Also lack of story between the two together. Okay, we see them play together in the park as kids "the date"...okaaay.
Then they walked together in the streets... hmmm.
Thats it?

Quite disappointed, especially when I saw this amongst a list amongst some of my favorite Korean movies of alltime.
I just find this movie ...too "light". Might aswell be in the Hallmark channel.

[–] capuchin (2715) 3 months ago

Also lack of story between the two together.

I don't think the point is the story between them. If we take it literally, then we probably would think 'You were twelve. Get over it.'

There are two ways of reading the connection between them: 1) it's 'in-yun' and / or 2) it's the connection to memory, to homeland, to a potentially alternative personal history had she stayed in South Korea. The title of the film is ambiguous, but not accidental. It's a film about the immigration experience more than it's a love story about two dopey children.

[–] jlam888 (582) 3 months ago

Yeah it is an impressive movie to a point but I agree that emotional connection is a bit over dramatized. It is hard to buy that the husband would worry so much over her relationship to a guy she has not even seen in person in 24 years.