Il Mare

What would you do when the one you love lives in a different time zone? Would you still be happy if she lives 2 years ahead? Would you feel the same if he lives 2 years behind your present time? This is the uniqueness in this movie. You can neither laugh nor cry, but it’s the twist of time that made me want to watch it through. It is a sad story without having a sad ending. (o´∀｀o)

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Title: Il Mare (時越愛 / 시월애)

Cast:

◕ Jun Ji Hyun as Kim Eun Joo

◕ Lee Jung Jae as Sung Hyun

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Il Mare, which means “sea”, was the name of the house. Before Kim Eun Joo moved to another place, she left one mail telling the next occupant to send to her new address the mails that will still be sent to Il Mare. At the end of the mail, she indicated the date, December of 1999. Then she placed it in the mail box of Il Mare.

Sung Hyun, the “new” occupant of the house read the letter. He replied to Eun Joo’s letter dated December of 1997. When Eun Joo noticed the date, she told him about it, and Sung Hyun answered that he really was living in the year 1997.

While they exchanged letters through the mail box in Il Mare, Eun Joo noticed that it was the mail box. It was the one that connected them to their different time zones. They continued exchanging letters and gradually fell for one another.

Eun Joo told him about the things that will happen at that time of the year in his time zone, such as the heavy snow fall and when influenza was prevalent. Sung Hyun told her that he wanted to see her. So she arranged a date that they would meet at one beach, where she planned to live her whole life, on the 11th of March (I think : )) 2000, Saturday. Sung Hyun must wait for 2 years to go there. When Eun Joo went to the beach, she saw that there was a house under construction. She saw the design of the house and asked who would live there and the one assigned answered that it was designed by her upper classmate for the one whom he loved. Without any clue, Eun Joo went ahead to the beach and waited for some time.

Then she told him about her ex-boyfriend who left her. She told him the last time where she and her ex-boyfriend met. It was in Yuoido. Definitely, Sung Hyun would go there. ( =̴̶̷̤̄ .̫ =̴̶̷̤̄ )

In Eun Joo’s time, she visited the architectural institution where Sung Hyun worked (I think). Then she saw the design that was in the beach. She was told that Blah Sung Hyun designed it for Kim Eun Joo. Then added that Sung Hyun  when he went to Yuoido to meet with someone, he was hit by a car. “It was a car accident.”

In a hurry, Eun Joo sent a letter to Sung Hyun not to go in Yuoido, crying and telling herself it was her fault.

Then the accident was showed, and Sung Hyun died. I was really sad. But that was not what happened. Sung Hyun received the letter and was still alive. (Yeay!)

At the end of the movie, the first scene was flashed back. When Eun Joo was about to move from Il Mare, Sung Hyun showed up and said, “I am going to tell you a very long story.”

The end. Yeay, he did not die, and they really met! Hahahaha. Much better. ( ¤̴̶̷̤́ ‧̫̮ ¤̴̶̷̤̀ )

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♥ Jun Ji Hyun also starred in the famous Korean movie, My Sassy Girl.

♥ This film was remade by Warner Brothers in 2006 as The Lake House starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.

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