Love
Romance
Amore

BG: 취중진담 - 김동률 / Drunken Truth by Kim Dong-ryul

all the possible lines and plots have been done to death!
recycled, re-shuffled, re-vamped....

I personally will not tolerate
any more predictability in the realm of romantic movies!

Which is why I felt a good romantic comedy works best.

But you know what, sometimes.
It's about the simplest things.
And focusing on the simplest facts and bits and pieces
works WONDERS

The latest spin from K-town... Hallyu-wood...
offers a very satisfying ride to actually, surprisingly two very segmented sides.

Those who yearn for a dose of romance.
Those who have gone past that stage,
and somewhat have become numb or immune
to all the formulae and plots and twists movie magic throws at us.

It's called "Architecture 101"
directed by Lee Yong-joo
살인의 추억, Memories of Murder (2003)
As the title suggests,
the core element that brings our lovers together
is an introductory class to architecture in college.

Starring Uhm Tae-woong and Han Ga-in
two 30somethings who knew each other in college.

Now they have their own lives.
own partners, success and failures.

and they get together on a home-remodelling project.

The long forgotten past episodes of
what could have been between them
are revisited once again.... one by one.

And those days are the early 90s.
here's a plucky little love tune from that era
played during one of their flashbacks

SONG BREAK:
칵테일 사랑 - 마로니에 / Cocktail Love by Maronie Friends

The story shifts into a different gear when
we go back to their college freshmen years
the younger duo is played by
이제훈 and 배수지 of MISS A

조정석

BG 신인류의 사랑 - 015B / Love of New Mankind by 015B

What's beautiful about young, very young love
is that they don't know what love is.
and they'd like to know.

they don't know why
but they want to be with each other.

Everyone can relate to
how the two youths grow
into what they didn't know was love

ironically, they are so new at it,

slightest wrong timing,
the wrong thing said at a bad time,
bad things done at a wrong time.
can have adverse effects.

And as grown ups,
after years passed,
and all the pain and hurt from their first love
buried....

they trail back,
and have the void that caused misunderstandings
filled in by the other...

And they realize
how important each other was.
but more importantly...

what they had in the past,
and what they have now
and what they can have

THey wonder, and you wonder... if we met at a different time in our lives,
if I was a different person at that time... could things have been better....
the story suggests.... perhaps it is what it is. beautiful, painful, perfect.
because the memory is yours and who you are

you look back
at your puppy love... or the first love
and you are ashamed at how vulnerable you were

you find solice knowing
you know you won't let anyone hurt you like
that person did that time

BUT You look back and smile
realizing how pure and innocent love was

and how you may never feel that way
be as in love without thinking,
without calculating
without logic
without prior experience or encounters to compare and measure

just you heart and the being that makes you feel this way

Here's the song that seem
to sum up everything the movie wants to say

Song Break
기억의 습작 by 전람회 Practice work of memories by Exhibition