A Moment to Remember

A Moment to Remember (내 머리 속의 지우개, Eraser in My Head)
Korean Movie
Running time: 144 minutes
Year: 2004
Director: John H. Lee
Starring: Jung Woo-sung, Son Ye-jin

This movie begins as what seems like a romantic comedy. Su-Jin is 27 years old, and is moving home after having an affair with a married man. She is rather forgetful.

One day she goes into a convenience store and buys a coke. However, she leaves the store without her drink. She returns to the store, and coming out the door is a man with a coke. She looks inside and drink is gone. Thinking the man had taken hers, she grabs his soda and gulps it all down, then burps in his face. She turns and leaves.

On her way home, she realizes that her wallet is gone as well, so she goes to the store again. The man behind the counter gives her her wallet and coke. She gets embaressed over taking the other man's drink, but he is long gone.

Su-Jin's father is the owner of a construction company, and she is going somewhere with him when he has to stop on a job sight where a foreman is causing a fuss over an unstable building. Who should the worker be but the man she stole the drink from.
His name is Chul-Soo. And thus begins their romance.

They get married and are so very sweet together! Su-Jin loves Chul-Soo very much, and, though Chul-Soo won't say so, he loves her too. They are a perfect couple. Su-Jin is still so forgetful, so she goes to the doctor to see what the deal is. It's Alzheimers.

I'm not going to tell the rest of the story, because I don't want to give it away. This movie coaxed my heart out of it's guarded home, deceived it, threw it to the ground, stabbed it, then proceeded to tap dance on it in stilletto heels. I have never flat out BAWLED at a movie before. But I did in this one. It is such a good love story, and, even though my eyes were puffy for about four hours after watching it, and I was sad every time it crossed my mind for the next three days, it is one of my favorites. Amazing. Five out of five stars.



(This video made me cry all over again!)

Mulan

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.


I hate to start off my blog with a negative review, but this was the last movie I watched and want to write about it while it is still on my mind.

I had decided to bite the bullet. I can't stand listening to Chinese. But I love the story of Mulan. This movie is about that legendery girl, who most of us Americans know from the 1998 Disney film. The plot is basically the same, except take out the awesome Mushu, the cool fat dude, and add about eleven years.

The movie started off weird for me. First off, there is Vitas, all dressed in white, on a battlefield, with this look on his face that says, 'oh, I shouldn't have eaten those hot wings,' and this music playing in the background that is so high it's unreal.

There is no real telling of Mulan's life; ten minutes into the movie and she is at the army camp. You never get to really know her or her life. Then there is Wentai.

And WHAT THE HECK is with that?! Ok, he and Mulan become generals twenty minutes into the movie, and like four years go by. Then he pretends to die for like five years, but still manages to hide within the camp. And I mean, come ON. He's a fricking PRINCE. How is he hiding from his father? And wouldn't his father know if his son wasn't a general? And how did he go about hiding in the first place? And the thing he did with his blood for Mulan was kinda sweet, but also creepy.

I found out towards the end of the movie that the film took place over twelve years. GAH. And after waiting two hours for a nice ending, I DON'T GET ONE. Usually I am fine with unhappy endings. Heck, some of my favorite movies have the main character's die or one dies and the other is left alone. But this...a good ending would have been this movie's only redeeming quality.

Half a star out of five. Watchable, but blek.