Once In A Summer is that love story.
It is your normal love story, with no outstanding storyline and twisting plots. The movie is done old school with the tried and tested story of the city boy who falls in love with the village girl but are kept apart because of differences. Even the setting is way back in the 60s, where zebra striped tight pants were all the rage - as you'll see (and burst out laugh about) in the movie.
And yet, the move was obviously created by a modern director who knows and appreciates the times gone past. Because for all its traditional elements, this love story has wisps of the ingredients that make a successful rom com - the humor in the script was very natural and colloqiual, unlike the more word-reserved traditional 'soap operatic' lovey stories.
The movie's environment in old and rural Korea is serenely beautiful and subtly scenic, which keeps things modest and simplistic. The movie takes a few trips to and fro through time, and while this could sometimes have been done with a better transition, you won't find yourself disoriented enough to spoil the movie at all. The movie is shot in clean and clear pictures, and my boyfriend believes that some of the shots of old Korea were CGI, but we shan't debate that.
The Bittersweet Life actor displays aptitude in a different acting dimension from that in Bittersweet Life, and does so well at being boy and child-like. He is utterly lovable and heartbreakingly charming in all his boyhood. The lead actress is portrayed consistently throughout the movie, such that nothing she does or feels would be doubted as unrealistic or dramatic. The film is so wholistic in its execution that I believed everything; laughing along when the two lovers joked, feeling their nervousness on their first date, and withholding tears when they were robbed of their being together.
Anyone who ever loved, is loved and loves should take this journey Once In A Summer.
8 / 10
It is your normal love story, with no outstanding storyline and twisting plots. The movie is done old school with the tried and tested story of the city boy who falls in love with the village girl but are kept apart because of differences. Even the setting is way back in the 60s, where zebra striped tight pants were all the rage - as you'll see (and burst out laugh about) in the movie.
And yet, the move was obviously created by a modern director who knows and appreciates the times gone past. Because for all its traditional elements, this love story has wisps of the ingredients that make a successful rom com - the humor in the script was very natural and colloqiual, unlike the more word-reserved traditional 'soap operatic' lovey stories.
The movie's environment in old and rural Korea is serenely beautiful and subtly scenic, which keeps things modest and simplistic. The movie takes a few trips to and fro through time, and while this could sometimes have been done with a better transition, you won't find yourself disoriented enough to spoil the movie at all. The movie is shot in clean and clear pictures, and my boyfriend believes that some of the shots of old Korea were CGI, but we shan't debate that.
The Bittersweet Life actor displays aptitude in a different acting dimension from that in Bittersweet Life, and does so well at being boy and child-like. He is utterly lovable and heartbreakingly charming in all his boyhood. The lead actress is portrayed consistently throughout the movie, such that nothing she does or feels would be doubted as unrealistic or dramatic. The film is so wholistic in its execution that I believed everything; laughing along when the two lovers joked, feeling their nervousness on their first date, and withholding tears when they were robbed of their being together.
Anyone who ever loved, is loved and loves should take this journey Once In A Summer.
8 / 10
Oh, and the poster is definitely worth getting - it's so well-compositioned and cheery, and just plain sweet!
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