Opening Day: 9 Feb 2006

Synopsis:

A SEASON FOR LOVE chronicles the lives of four very different couples as they deal with love, loss and life in romantic, loosely interconnected stories -- A 30-year-old fire-fighter looking for just the right ring for his fiancée; A long-term relationship between a guy who cannot find a job and a wonderful and long suffering woman who is beginning to tire of their relationship; An 8-year-old boy who desperately misses his career-minded mother; A deaf girl with a terrible burn on her face falls in love with a painter, dreaming of a perfect love. All of these situations are filled with heartache and sometimes despair, but like love, it comes in many forms. In many ways, love must end for it to begin again.

Movie Review:


Sin Min-ah, previously seen in “A Bittersweet Life”, had outperformed herself as a deaf girl, who had a liking for a painter/artist at her workplace. She worked in Everland amusement park as a moving marcot, keeping her handicap in disguise and safely unknown from him. Till that final day she has summoned the courage to face and reveal her to him truthfully. Those scenes with her were usually peppered with lightness and humor, bringing in the laughter.

Im Soo-jung, who starred in the movie as her elder beloved sister, shared a few well-crafted scenes. Audience can sense their sisterly closeness and be touched by the speechless affection.

Jung Woo-sung, as her future brother-in-law, was not expertise in sign language, so his attempts to decipher them and relay back with his own sign gestures were absolutely hilarious. Bet most might find Jung unfamiliar. Surprise fact. He was none other than that quiet, longhaired slave-who-turned-out to be a valiant fighter in “Musa”, protecting Zhang Ziyi’s character then. Here he still fights, not with people but the vicious blazes. A competent fire-fighter at work, however, at love frontline, he is as much as his girlfriend, learning to be more verbally expressive towards each other. Would the day she has been waiting for him to propose to her eventually come?

Simultaneously, there is a pitiful chap, who has been unemployed for a period of time, earns a paltry amount by being a temporary human sandbag. His relationship with her girlfriend is inevitably affected. Cha Tae-hyun, far from his usual roles with carefree spirit and slapstick humor, impressed us with this serious tough-luck guy. He comes up with an unusual solution for anyone who wants to initiate a break up. Guess?

We witnessed the power and the various facades of love through the characters in the movie. Love also exists and is quintessential in a child-parent relationship. To be more wholesome, the 4th couple is actually about a young boy and his mother. Love is renewed only upon understanding and the realization of the little time left. This Korean child actor, like his other peers, did it again by successfully touching the audience dearly. Get your tissues ready.

With our beloved ones, may we Cherish every moment, Live each day. Follow resoundingly through this principle in the daily briskness of life. Nothing is to be taken granted.

Had there not been any unintentional misses of chances in the forerun, regrets won’t follow suit at the heels. Follow your heartstrings.

Movie Rating:

(To live is to love, so as to live no regrets)

Review by Alicia Tee