Release date: January 2003
Ji-hae and Su-kyung attend the same university and have a
crush on the same man, Sang-min. At Su-kyung’s request, Ji-hae writes love
letters to Sang-min for her friend and, touched by the letters, he takes up
with Su-kyung, leaving Ji-hae unhappy and alone. Ji-hae stumbles upon a box of
old letters of her mother, Ju-hee’s, and discovers her mother had a first love
before marrying. Oddly enough, the mother’s secret love, Joon-ha wrote letters
to her on behalf of his friend, Tae-su, the boy her parents had arranged for
her to marry. Time and events intervene—student protests, the war in Viet Nam,
and Ju-hee’s and Joon-ha’s love is not to be … but it seems fate has something
else in store for Ji-hae and Sang-min.
The film is long (more than two hours) and the story is clichéd
and only mildly interesting. I got bored and kept thinking, "This scene could have been cut ..." Son Ye-jin's bleating her lines got on my nerves, too. It seems this film was wildly popular among Korean
men! Go figure. My take: D
Teenagers Ju-hee (Son Ye-jin) and
Joon-ha (Jo Seung-woo)
get caught in a downpour and take refuge in a won-du-mak
…
shades of “Sonagi”, anyone? Notice Ju-hee’s pink skirt!
(“Sonagi”, a classic
1953 short story by Hwang Soon-won).
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