Sarang-eul nochida (2006) User Reviews

Girl secretly loves her friend, they meet years later and develop feelings towards each other

[beefnoodleno1 · 5/10 · 18 October 2006]

Mediocre. This is a melodrama about a girl who secretly loves her friend but never tells him. They both lose touch with each other for a few years and then meet by chance again and it goes from there. This movie is slow at the beginning, almost boring. But even when things should pick up pace it remains slow. The movie is flawed because it makes the lives of the characters seem extremely dull. Even though it was a melodrama it fails to invoke any emotion. And the male lead's indecisiveness is a big annoyance. It has the typical lover's time gap seen a lot in Korean films and doesn't have any originality. The ending was also very typical. This movie seemed like it was a small idea that movie producers decided to buff up and run with. Usually stuff like this would sell if they put a few pretty faces in there but the cast isn't all too great either. It lacks detail and was overlooked, watch it to watch it but don't expect much.

Animated view of love that's sliding through your hands

[novaj5 · 9/10 · 24 February 2008]

'Lost in love' is not a very good translation of the movie title. Literally, the title translates to 'Letting the love slip away'. I see that even critics give this movie a wide variance of ratings, and I think that one's view of the movie will depend on 2 things: 1) Your view of love and your experiences of love, and 2) Your acceptance of the 'animated' expressions. Characters are somewhat 'characterised' and the movie depends a lot in the viewer's own imagination rather than explicitly showing and telling all this and that. That would make the movie too emotional and childish. The movie is about indecisiveness so don't expect the movie itself to be decisive. This movie is not perfect. I see actors struggling to sync perfectly with the animatedness of the movie and the first part of the movie (before WooJae goes to the army) is restless, trying to establish the movie by packing in all the emotions. Overall, I don't think this movie provides a good example of how the senses of reality and animatedness could be matched, but there aren't really many movies - may be none - out there which has tried the combine things this way, and while the movie is not stylistically polished, I personally found it to be quite involving.