24 Feb 2013

Movie: Architecture 101 (Interpretation)


Every movie has more than just the story if we look closely at the small details that makes the whole. Drama films tend to be articulate in this sense and worth dissecting. So let’s get on with it :)

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Remembering that decade



This movie is about nostalgia, innocence and unrequited love at different stages in life. Although this movie is reminiscent of a decade when I was still too young, I still found myself relating to the story which I’m sure most people much younger than me do too. This is because regardless of the time period, everyone has experienced first love. Everyone has their own memory of what it was like to have a crush, to have fallen in love or to have struggled against feelings. It is nostalgic of the times when innocence had impaired our rationalities, when we failed to see the whole picture and made decisions based on feelings leaving us vulnerable and hurt. This movie allowed us to look back and realize how much we’ve grown, how different we are now, how we have moved on and yet at times still feel those pangs of bittersweet memories that never seemed to have eased all these years.

22 Feb 2013

Movie: Architecture 101 Summary

Also known as: Introduction to Architecture; 건축학개론
Starring: Uhm Taewoong, Han Ga-in, Lee Je-hoon, Bae Suzy


Plot

This is simply a love story that could have been. The plot revolves around old college classmates who parted ways only to find each other again 15 years into the future. Now, one is divorced while the other is preparing for his wedding. Their history is dug up in a nostalgic story around architecture intertwined with events during their younger days. Will they finally find the answers to questions they have long held unanswered? Will he falter tying the knot with his fiancé and will she be able to bring him back to her? Or will they learn that fleeting moments in history will simply remain fleeting?