Lake House
I read Ebert’s review of The Lake House, which he gave a 3.5-star rating, which means he thinks the movie is pretty decent. Trouble is it is hard to believe he actually like the movie.
He said the movie works on two paradoxes, yet he mocked the two paradoxes that he said made the movie work. It is all very strange.
So I read on. I wanted to know.
The story is about a woman living in a lake house built on stilts. She is moving out and leaves a note for the next tenant. Then a series of correspondence ensues between the woman and the tenant. They write and come to love each other, except he thinks it is 2004 and she thinks it is 2006.
The woman and the tenant also share the same dog, besides living in the same lake house, just in two different times.
``Never mind. They also have the same dog. Never mind. I tell you, never mind!!’’ Ebert wrote.
So what is it Ebert? What is it that is in the movie that kept you watching and evoke a tenderness in you that had you rate it 3.5 stars even when you are obviously disturbed by the temporal disparity that violates your sensibility? Why, Ebert?
He finally offered – the romantic impulse. ``It makes us hope that the two people will somehow meet.’’ Never mind that he is in 2004 and that she is 2006. It is only two years apart. They have to meet, maybe in 2007, and ease our poor hearts.
The same impulse that is the origin of our indulgences of living out our romantic past and our secret hope that all that happened is just to build a stronger future so that when we meet again, all mistakes will be erased, and not remain as basis of my pensive thoughts. And we’ll meet again in 2007, never mind he is in 1999, and I am already in 2006.
The same impulse that had me wistfully watch the guy fell to his death after being hit by a car in a music video of the Korean version of Lake House, while the woman runs to write him a letter too late. Lake House is a remake of a Korean movie where the Sassy Girl is the woman. Lake House’s Keanu Reeves, the tenant, probably wouldn’t die. I wouldn’t know. But I will know soon. The romantic impulse will have me before the big screen, hoping the two will be able to work out the complicated time loop problem and meet!
He said the movie works on two paradoxes, yet he mocked the two paradoxes that he said made the movie work. It is all very strange.
So I read on. I wanted to know.
The story is about a woman living in a lake house built on stilts. She is moving out and leaves a note for the next tenant. Then a series of correspondence ensues between the woman and the tenant. They write and come to love each other, except he thinks it is 2004 and she thinks it is 2006.
The woman and the tenant also share the same dog, besides living in the same lake house, just in two different times.
``Never mind. They also have the same dog. Never mind. I tell you, never mind!!’’ Ebert wrote.
So what is it Ebert? What is it that is in the movie that kept you watching and evoke a tenderness in you that had you rate it 3.5 stars even when you are obviously disturbed by the temporal disparity that violates your sensibility? Why, Ebert?
He finally offered – the romantic impulse. ``It makes us hope that the two people will somehow meet.’’ Never mind that he is in 2004 and that she is 2006. It is only two years apart. They have to meet, maybe in 2007, and ease our poor hearts.
The same impulse that is the origin of our indulgences of living out our romantic past and our secret hope that all that happened is just to build a stronger future so that when we meet again, all mistakes will be erased, and not remain as basis of my pensive thoughts. And we’ll meet again in 2007, never mind he is in 1999, and I am already in 2006.
The same impulse that had me wistfully watch the guy fell to his death after being hit by a car in a music video of the Korean version of Lake House, while the woman runs to write him a letter too late. Lake House is a remake of a Korean movie where the Sassy Girl is the woman. Lake House’s Keanu Reeves, the tenant, probably wouldn’t die. I wouldn’t know. But I will know soon. The romantic impulse will have me before the big screen, hoping the two will be able to work out the complicated time loop problem and meet!
posted by eternal bough at 12:53 AM
5 Comments:
I watched the Korean version. It was quite good. And I thot the korean version was an adaptation of a french one? is it ah?
I don't know. I have not the Korean one. has been searching for the DVD. you know where to get that.
A friend of mine have the DVD, I can ask her if you'd like to borrow. For this particular fan of Korean dramas, I've found it excruciatingly slow and boring (to my disappointment!)
Still planning to catch the English version, wanna watch together? In Singapore end July!
sure. end July? will the movie still be showing?
It only opens on screens 27th Jul I think.
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