If you are a Korean movie lover then this is the best well for me it is. I just loved it every bit of it. It's been awhile that I have started watching Korean movie and loved them so many but this is the only one which made me write in IMDb. The story is well plotted and the film itself is so well made that you don't know where it is leading you to until you reach around the end and will be shocked to know the end. I bought this movie just for time pass and had thought it would be like any other Korean movie and while at the beginning I had started predicting the end but obviously the characters where so good that kept me going and then couldn't keep my eyes off it when the story started unfolding. I wouldn't like to ruin the excitement by telling the story I just want to compliment the movie for it was just too good in every way possible way. The actors are good too including the supporting casts. I don't know where the Koreans get such wonderful stories from though the ending is almost the same in almost all the movies it is how wonderfully crafted these movie are and have its own identity. This surely is one of the best romantic Korean movie I have watched. The lead actors are so perfect for their role and have truly given justice to their roles. Especially the lead actor his innocence could kill any girl and make them want to fall in love and the lead actress like other Korean movies she hasn't tried to be overly cute but she is simple innocent and cute too but at times only. This one will surely make your heartache and make you think about it even after you have watched it. The characters are also not very over hyped or things they are just too simple their talks their looks and their cloths too. Like every Korean movie it is too sad but it doesn't include too much crying and sobbing and still make you hurt somewhere and eventually makes you cry. Though a simple love story its strength lies in how it makes you rethink the whole movie again, unpredictable storyline and gives importance to every scene in the movie and also makes you realize that there is too much love around even the one which we do not know about or are just overlooking them. I think the movie plot is original well I haven't seen such a plot in any movie before so it is original for me and the soundtracks included in the movie are good too . I just loved this movie and would recommend everyone who loves Korean movie to watch it. After watching movies like ditto, my sassy girl, my tutor friend and this one there is no doubt in saying that Korean movie industry is the only one to give the best love story movies ever.
4 Reviews
two for one
tieu_yeu_nu_1238 November 2009
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having watched many Korean tearjerkers, I've become quite immune to them, and although i could not say i cried for this film but i felt like crying, which is good enough.
the plot follows two stories, on of the present between young mi and the young librarian who is quite possibly the nicest guy you'll ever meet without being a wimp and the story of a one sided love from a person who is no longer in the story, not dead just not there.
the director was brilliant in allowing the viewers to watch each story from the eyes of the female (meaning some males will find this quite boring), Yong Mi's story follows that of a typical romance where she meets the librarian and they start a relationship, not yet of undying love but more of a puppy love feeling. while the other character (that i can not recall the name off) expresses her one sided love for a male classmate that she never seems to work up the courage to confess too and when she does, life becomes to complicated to take that step.
when we finally reach the middle point and starts to suspect if the librarian is the male classmate the poor girl was in love with, we feel like what Young Mi would feel, will we continue on with this relationship, knowing there is someone out there who loved him for so long (10 years) and is suffering because of it.
the twist in the story became almost like a blessing before we remind ourselves what that really means and feel as helpless as Young Mi is feeling.
a truly worthy film for viewing, please do not miss it.
the plot follows two stories, on of the present between young mi and the young librarian who is quite possibly the nicest guy you'll ever meet without being a wimp and the story of a one sided love from a person who is no longer in the story, not dead just not there.
the director was brilliant in allowing the viewers to watch each story from the eyes of the female (meaning some males will find this quite boring), Yong Mi's story follows that of a typical romance where she meets the librarian and they start a relationship, not yet of undying love but more of a puppy love feeling. while the other character (that i can not recall the name off) expresses her one sided love for a male classmate that she never seems to work up the courage to confess too and when she does, life becomes to complicated to take that step.
when we finally reach the middle point and starts to suspect if the librarian is the male classmate the poor girl was in love with, we feel like what Young Mi would feel, will we continue on with this relationship, knowing there is someone out there who loved him for so long (10 years) and is suffering because of it.
the twist in the story became almost like a blessing before we remind ourselves what that really means and feel as helpless as Young Mi is feeling.
a truly worthy film for viewing, please do not miss it.
a lovely, romantic movie
MuLoan4614 June 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Young-Mi Cha is orphaned at a young age, but she doesn't let her misfortune get to her. She is sweet, smart, and hardworking. Without parents, she graduated high school and college, and eventually got a job as a writer at a radio station in Seoul. But, during this time, she has a secret guardian she calls her "Daddy Long Legs" that help her financially and cheers her up with gifts when life becomes tough for her. The movie follows Young-Mi as she struggles in her job until she unexpectedly, encounter and read emails just sent to a computer she's using in a borrowed apartment. The emails were written by the apartment owner a year ago about their unrequited love. Young-Mi searches to find out who the email writer is and who their love was, which also work at the same radio station she does. Soon those emails help her find out who her "Daddy Long Legs" is.
Chick flick turns into a stunning romance ride!
UglyToesPete9 March 2006
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A gem of a movie. To have the right to complain about viewing a foreign language movie with subtitles, you have to earn your stripes on complaining.
Earn your stripes here private. If (especially if your a General in subtitles) your heart isn't yet a compressed lump of coal by thrillers, war, horror and violence flicks, and a great love story can still warm your heart, then you'll be well served here.
Young-Mi (from what I gathered from the subtitles) is the name of the young woman that has a great love from her high school days to this very day. But the guy in question is not even aware of her. She has been "shadowing" him for the last few years and never has managed to approach him although her heart yearns for it.
Don't know why I can't remember the name of the charming male lead .
From there, you will go on a roller-coaster ride of charming anecdotes, funny scenes, totally beautiful young love blossoming and more.
If you miss this, you don't qualify for the human race any longer .hah ha.
I was dazzled by the end, and confused. This WAS a cookie cutter/chick flick and fluttered into a true love classic movie. From South-Korea no less. With a girl that has virtually no breasts, is demure yet bright as a button, polite yet independent, shy yet capable, therefore the exact opposite of what we live with here in the Americas, the silver screen I mean and TV.
The love story ends surprisingly, with one of the couple being sick and in critical condition. True love is then declared on a hospital bed while one is sleeping (perhaps?) and the other steps forward and declares unconditional love.
My pants are on the floor.
They were charmed away!
Smiley
:)
Earn your stripes here private. If (especially if your a General in subtitles) your heart isn't yet a compressed lump of coal by thrillers, war, horror and violence flicks, and a great love story can still warm your heart, then you'll be well served here.
Young-Mi (from what I gathered from the subtitles) is the name of the young woman that has a great love from her high school days to this very day. But the guy in question is not even aware of her. She has been "shadowing" him for the last few years and never has managed to approach him although her heart yearns for it.
Don't know why I can't remember the name of the charming male lead .
From there, you will go on a roller-coaster ride of charming anecdotes, funny scenes, totally beautiful young love blossoming and more.
If you miss this, you don't qualify for the human race any longer .hah ha.
I was dazzled by the end, and confused. This WAS a cookie cutter/chick flick and fluttered into a true love classic movie. From South-Korea no less. With a girl that has virtually no breasts, is demure yet bright as a button, polite yet independent, shy yet capable, therefore the exact opposite of what we live with here in the Americas, the silver screen I mean and TV.
The love story ends surprisingly, with one of the couple being sick and in critical condition. True love is then declared on a hospital bed while one is sleeping (perhaps?) and the other steps forward and declares unconditional love.
My pants are on the floor.
They were charmed away!
Smiley
:)
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