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Predictable
Cliched, predictable high school drama with some very beautiful young people. Bo Ra promises to look after her best friend's crush while she leaves the country. Predictable situations ensue, but you don't mind it too much since the main leads are so darned beautiful. I loved Bo Ra's relationship with her father the most. I wish they had given their banter a little more airtime. I was hoping the love triangle would give way to a close friendship--sort of like a three musketeers relationship, but the writers had other ideas. I hate to say it, but the unoriginal plot, and depthless supporting characters made this a bit disappointing. The acting was okay, but I think they could have gone a little further in raising the stakes. It general, a very sweet teenaged movie.Was this review helpful to you?
Great love story from student era.
It's a great movie. I love the story and the way we can see how their love story unfolds. It left an impact on me, and I didn't expect the ending. The acting was great, as was their chemistry. Definitely recommend.Was this review helpful to you?
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I knew the ending already thanks to Tik Tok, and I still started bawling my eyes out 45 minutes before the movie ended. This was such a sweet and pure depiction of first love, I wish I could have seen even more of the characters because they were so fun and likable the second the movie started. Oh to have such friends like this, to be in the broadcasting club, to eat plums straight from the tree, to have a school field trip at the ocean, to get drunk with your friends, to drunkenly confess your feelings, to have payphone conversations with your first love, to send emails back and forth with your best friend/crush... the list goes on. This broke my heart in a million pieces. To think Bo Ra never got to read Woon Ho's letter because he dropped it in the rain, or that it took so long for her to find out what happened after years of feeling disappointed. It'll take a while to recover from this one 💔 Was this review helpful to you?
Overall, a cute film about first loves with angst, drama and a few twists and turns thrown in.
Just finished this and true to form… the ending sucked 😂😂. I don’t know what it is about Korean films and dramas but they are so good… they just keep sucking you in until you get to the end and then 85-90% of the time, they just miss the mark. I mean like nose dive off a cliff miss. Not to mention the fact that I thought this was a drama and only realized it was a film when some one mentioned it and asked didn’t I wonder why I had been watching it so long.. I did not and after watching a certain scene, I was left wondering how the show would move forward for 9 more episodes😂😂 Good thing it was a film because I would have been pissed having watched 10 episodes of a drama only for it to end the way it did… 😡
The characters were likeable for the most part and a few got on my nerves at times but overall I enjoyed them and they played their roles perfectly. The story line was pretty good as well… made me reminisce on my first love and kept me interested.. until that nose dive of an ending. Overall it was a cute film about first loves with angst, drama anda few twists and turns thrown in.
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One of the Saddest Movie I Ever Watched.
When I Started it i thought It would a good movie with a happy ending, but in the end I was crying...................................................................................................................
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OMG.
WOW WOW WOW. PLEASE WATCH THIS. Watch this when you need a really really good cry. Truly GUT WRENCHING. So good, i would totally rewatch this again. The acting was incredible, the storyline was beautiful. Cannot recommend this movie enough. Please please watch it!!!!! I recommend keeping a box of tissues next you.Was this review helpful to you?
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A fun time before a fall, the a bandaid to heal the wound
After many K-dramas, this way my first K-movie and I love it. This won’t be a long post. But I have one issue.Even though the movie touches my fav kind of genre (cutesy,innocent,youth,slice of life with a hint of tragedy Lol) they really could have given us the cause of death. And the scripture is so well written, him being dead never crossed my mind! Not once. But the movie does show the fragility of life and essentially tell the ones you love that you love them before it’s too late 💔
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Killed me with kindness
It started with a harmless 90s aesthetic and Byeon Woo-Seok’s sweet smile, and it ended in the cold, minimalistic, soulless 21st-century days with me bawling my eyes out. This film perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being born in a hopeful era, only to have your innocence taken away by life’s unbearable weight of reality.If you’re an anxious person like me, you might want to look up the ending beforehand. I usually dislike spoilers, but somehow midway through this film I was like, “ok, I need to know if I’m gonna like the ending or else I won’t be able to keep going.” Then you can imagine my shock when I found out what happened. Thank goodness I learned of it before; otherwise, I would have been completely destroyed.
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Yeah, he dies at the end. Was it really necessary? I don’t think so. I think the film had already made its point clear enough with his moving away. Their love had all the lightness and the overdramatics of adolescence. And like all good things, it eventually had to end. In my view, it would have been enough to see them slowly drifting apart as life got in the way, but remembering their time together with fondness, as happens in real life. This doesn’t ruin the film, though. The last scene is beautiful, and I cried even though I knew what the ending was before I got there.
This is a coming-of-age story, a love story, a nostalgic story. And I enjoyed every minute of it.
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não assista se vc não quiser chorar ?
Eu amo esse filme com todas as minhas forças, pena que eu não posso ver ele sempre. Eu me acabo de chorar e não seria justo comigo mesma eu me torturar dessa forma 😭Eles são todos muito bem escritos e a estética dos anos 90 sempre funciona muito bem.
Eu não tava nem um pouco preparada pra isso tudo, pensava que no final ia ver eles casando, tendo dois filhos lindinhos e comemorando até as bodas de diamante 😭
Queria guardar os dois de todo mal existente e dizer que ia ficar tudo bem. Isso deixaria meu coração muito quentinho ☹️
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NOT a "lighthearted" coming of age story like Netflix described :( Pass if you don't want to cry
I was in a depressed mood and when I saw that this was listed as a "lighthearted" movie, I thought PERFECT! I'll watch of fun quick romance. When the Male lead didn't stopped replying to the female leads emails and then she didn't hear from him for years it never even crossed my mind that he was dead because, again, this is listed as a LIGHTHEARTED romance on Netflix! LIES. Towards the end when she go the invitation to the exhibition I was actually thinking she better kick his but to the middle of next year, because he has no good excuse for ghosting her like that (no pun intended). Then I saw the image of the plum tree and bench with his birth and death day, and in front of my husband and two toddlers I cried out so loud, it startled them and then burst into tears! Whoever considers that light hearted must have a heart than can bench press a house, because this movie placed about 10 tons of heartache on me. I stopped the movie right there and DNF'd it. Even writing this review makes me want to lower my rating. So just to be clear, this MAY be a great movie to some people, but I HATE these types of stories. Life is hard enough, I don't want to watch them on tv, which is the time I spend escaping some of the hard things I have to see and hear through my line of work.Was this review helpful to you?
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A bit sadder than my expectations
I've always wanted to watch this one but was reluctant due to its sad ending. Lovely Runner has boosted my motivation to watch it and i must say i had a gist of the ending but it had affected me more than i thought it would.The story is cliche but its execution was quite alright, the movie hits a very nice nostalgic note due to its setting which made me like this movie a lot especially with its beautiful visuals. It started so wholesomely with its romcom and silly 2nd hand embarrassment moments that i was surprised on how in its last few minutes it had shifted on a much sadder note. As pleasing as this drama has started and how smooth it was with its pacing id say that the fact that Poong woo ho's death was porely handled as it had been left unfairly unexplained despite its importance to the movie even during the conversation between bo-ra and his younger brother.
Overall this movie was good as long as i ignore the little things. I'm certain it might take awhile for me to recover from this one haha.
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