I’m so angry at this film, it is so light and happy for, like, 3/4 of it, and then it’s all tears and tears. Why, what was the point? There was no reason to end it like this, now it’s ruined and it’s like so many others with the same ‘switch’, it was uncalled for here. I understood it in Pavane, but not here.
Edit, reading this now - not watching the film again, once was enough - I can see it being a good finale in a sort of artistic way, but the thing is, I don’t really care about that, the whole thing was so light that I never wanted or expected a tragic ending, and never wanted it.
Na Bo-ra is best friends with Kim Yeon-doo who has a weak heart and must leave for America to undergo surgery. Bora promises she’ll write often and tell her all about the boy she likes. For a long time Bora keeps following and watching Baek Hyun-jin, so much that they get to know each other and he asks her out. This is so wrong, she strongly refuses, but she can’t explain the reason for all her interest. Watching Hyun-jin also makes her know Poong Woon-ho, his best friend, and they start working together in the school’s ‘news’, and they start liking each other. She even tells him so during a school trip after she drinks too much but she won’t remember it. Still, they spend time together and they like each other, but then Yeon-doo comes back, finally, and they’re so happy to be together again. Bora has always been protective, and now that Yeon-doo is here it comes out that there was a mistake, Yeon-doo never heard the name of the boy she liked, she read it on his jacket, which was borrowed. Yeon-doo likes Woon-ho, not Hyun-hin, he wore his friend’s jacket because he had just arrived, he was in New Zealand. Bora is sad, but because of her protectiveness she keeps her feelings from her friend, and tells Woon-ho they won’t be together. Bora helps her friend see him, meet him, until Hyun-jin tells Yeon-doo that “they like each other”. Yeon-doo is angry that Bora lied to her, but she won’t stay angry forever. They’re best friends and love each other above everything. So when it’s time for Woon-ho to go back to New Zealand, where he still has a mom and little brother, Yeon-doo tells her to hurry, to not let him leave like this, and Hyun-jin is waiting for her on his bike to take her to the train station, where she confesses to Woon-ho that she does like him, very much, and they promise to exchange emails often, and he promises to come back to her as soon as he can. This all happened in 1999, and they exchange email through Christmas and New Year, but all of a sudden he stops writing, doesn’t answer his phone, totally disappeared. She’s hurt, it hurts very much; she attends college, moves on, starts working, and then years later her father receives a package. Bora is invited to an art exhibition, and finally learns the truth. Joseph invited her, and he’s Poon Jun-jo, Woon-ho’s younger brother, who is no more 5, he’s an adult and he tells her that Woon-ho died in an accident, so she can now stop being angry at him and can go back to remember the good times together.
Bora is Kim You-jung
Woon-ho is Byeon Woo-seok
Hyun-jin is Park Jung-woo
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