I just finished this movie and I wanted to quickly write my impressions about it while the emotions are still fresh. For starters, the movie has a quite interesting story and it attempts to go for the angsty, emotional, almost poetical type of romance between a normal girl and a what you could call a spirit. It's something that I found very catchy as a fan of these spirits-humans interactions and the line between their worlds, however when I started it my expectations slowly started to drop. The introduction is very short, the development is very fast. In other words, I wasn't really able to grasp the main setting or general idea of what I was watching right away to just manage to feel more involved during the middle point and through the later part. It was too fast for me to even start and feel attached to the two main characters so the emotional impact during the end was affected a lot as a consequence. But I couldn't bring myself to dislike it, maybe because I'm into these concepts, maybe because of Jaejoong or simply maybe out of my curiosity to understand what was going on. There IS something that makes you want to keep watching, so I give the story a 7 for originality (I didn't yet see a postman delivering letters to paradise xD...Though I hoped that part to have been more developed too...). Overall, I consider that it shouldn't have been a movie at all. 6 episodes maybe were enough to make it into a masterpiece, in my opinion, but definitely an almost 2 hours movie was just too short.
Acting wise, I have nothing to really complain about Jaejoong. He isn't the best out there, that's for sure, but he was good enough for what he was trying to bring out in Shin Jae Joon: mystery, angstiness, puppy faces. I wish that his past would have felt more as "a fact" rather than just an add, however. I didn't even once have the impression that he changed because of Ha Na, nor that he was ever the way he was portrayed in his flashbacks. I just didn't see this development he went through, maybe because of the time limit. I can't say. Now, I had a very big problem regarding Ha Na's actress and that's her acting. I felt that her reactions were very forced, her crying were just sounds with no tears and her laughing was simply unnatural. I don't know if that was for comedy purposes but it failed eitherway for me, I'm sorry to say...
I think that part of the OST was written by Jaejoong right? I felt like I could hear his voice during one particular song in the moments that mattered and I can say that it did a pretty good job.
I might rewatch it just to be able to understand more the things that happen in the second part of the movie, I guess it's adviced if you really like these type of stories. I'm sure that there is always something that we might have missed.
Overall, a 7 is what it deserves. I hear people say that it's overrated. Maybe a bit, but it's not horrible either. There is a certain sweet almost bittersweet feel that keeps lingering even after the ending. I hoped for it to have been a bit different, but as an incurable romantic, I can't say I disliked it.
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