Proximity Love. Perhaps the most beautiful feeling ever created by anyone in our world. The feeling that not only brings a person suffering and anguish of anticipation, but also makes him truly happy. Not only raising it to the level of heaven, but doing better than it was before. How many films about such a beautiful feeling were not filmed, not everyone managed to fully reveal the whole concept of love and its emotional power. There were author's tapes, there were commercial tapes and everywhere the same situation. So expecting to see in the face of this film director Kim Jong Kwan another romantic melodrama, I suddenly found something more. Kim Jung Kwan not only does not follow the usual techniques of both the genre of romantic films and melodramas, but completely ignores them throughout the film.
Forming its unique style, this film Kim Jung Kwan and very much knocked out of the gray mass of its fellow genre. Since unlike visual beauties reflecting this feeling, Kim Jong Kwang relies on emotions. Hence, it is not surprising that watching this film you literally feel how strongly and tightly you are enveloped by something warm, pleasant, light and at heart becomes insanely easy and pleasant. It is as if you rise with the characters of the picture to the heavens and share with them all the suffering and joy with which their love has bestowed.
The film is incredibly beautiful. Without any fashionable clip manner of shooting, but literally creating an example of truly magnificent fine art. Not only going through the magnificent scenery frames, but also not disdaining perfectly selected visual filters. As if representing a revived series of truly powerful works by certain users of the now popular Instagram network. At the same time, it is the image itself and the emotional component that so much reveal the main topic that the need for dialogue disappears immediately. The film is perfectly revealed as a silent film and a real work of art, which passes not at all visual perception, but literally permeates the soul.
The creators of the picture are not trying to invent a bicycle. They use what has been there for a long time. Something that each of us has faced and will face that everyone will face as well. It's love. Using the example of five different pairs, the creators of the picture from and to explore the theme of love in different household conditions. Someone realizes that he is no longer interested in men and he fell in love with a charming girl, who is the same as his friendship with a friend has long grown into something more. There is only one thing that unites the heroes.
They want love, but without realizing it ignore it and do not see around. Thus suffering and realizing it is only closer to the climax. The creators of the picture are trying to clearly hint that beauty surrounds us in everything. Including love. You just have to reach out and take risks. After all, each of us wants to be happy and for this it is worth trying ourselves. The creators of the picture bypass the usual understanding of the film almanac with an abundance of characters and stories in one picture, but they manage to create a truly integral cinematic canvas. Where each of the characters is revealed as magnificently as possible, and the story itself is obvious without any words.
The creators of the picture achieve that the very relationship between the characters and they themselves are obvious even with almost a minimum number of dialogues in the tape. As if once again reflecting what ruins the relationship is the abundance of words that have nothing behind them. It doesn’t matter how you talk or how much. What matters is what you love, how you love and what you do to show your care and love to someone so close to you. This is not propaganda of anything or a personal lesson of the creators of the picture. This is just another push to reconsider your life and look back, but whether we look back is another question.
Very rarely, the acting team works so hard and whole that you do not want to single out anyone separately. This is the situation that is reflected here as well. Each of the actors and actresses played their roles above all praise. Thus, no one draws attention to themselves and all this creates a very integral image of a truly united team.
The musical component of the picture deserves special attention. Reducing dialogues to a minimum, and visual images of love to a maximum, it is the music of the tape that creates an absolutely integral image of both the director’s idea and a truly strong canvas. The music is very beautiful, pleasant, lyrical and warm, does not try to break out in the first rows and does not try to dominate everything. It is a magnificent musical background, which only gives the picture an even greater emotional expression and allows you to admire the work done by the creators even more.
10 out of 10
Come closer - this is a unique example of a truly perfect picture of love. Devoid of title characters and an abundance of balabolistic dialogues, the picture literally permeates the viewer with a magnificent picture, stunning music, personal stories and an indescribable emotional charge that discourages the desire that the film would end at all.