Rumah Tasik

Just came back from watching the movie The Lake House. Starring KeaNEO Reeves and Sandra Bulldog, the show is a remake of a year-2000 Korean movie entitled Il Mare.

Premise of the plot is basically about two individuals who can correspond to each other through a house on a lake (or more specifically, its mailbox) while living 2 years apart. Something like instant messaging but through time and snail mail. Then they fall in love, I’ll wait for you, you wait for me, yada yada yada, that sort of thing.

The show started out ok by slowing building up the characters as they interact with each other. The important back-story of the lead female (Bulldog) is mostly flashed out through KeaNEO’s point of view (as he is the one living 2 years in the past from her, the viewers get to see her back-story unfolding through his eyes). I find that to be a rather refreshing way of communicating a character’s historical background. There were also scenes where they are like sitting in the same park next to each other. The screen is then split between his and her ‘time’ as they are directly talking to each other. That was kinda cool.

It whole “talking-through-time” theme reminds me a lot like the year 2000 movie Frequency, which is in my opinion, a bloody good show. Instead of mushy romance, Frequency is an action/mystery flick where both father and son are trying to save each other and everyone they love through an old CB radio. However, although their intentions are good, each of their actions causes a butterfly effect in the timeline. It really grabs you by the balls all the way until the end. Now, THAT movie had a proper ending.

*slight spoiler*
The ending of The Lake House is however, sadly disappointing. They had the opportunity to flash out a more powerful (and tear-jerking) ending but instead, the audiences will just go “hey, if she told him that then why didn’t he show up when they agreed on the date instead of waiting ANOTHER 2 more years yet however if he did show up then she would not have found out about the incident in the first place and thus unable to… uggg!"
Temporal Mechanics gives me a headache.

Basically, a very “huh?” ending. An ok movie to watch especially with a female companion. Wait… actually everything goes better with a female companion. :)

The origianl ending from the Korean version sound much more better than this one.

On a bright note, the soundtrack for the movie has an old-school, romantically jazz-like feel to it. Suitable for the show’s slow pace.

“Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.”