The Contact (1997)
10/10
Much more better than 'You've got Mail!'
6 August 2004
Warning: Spoilers
** Spoiler alert ** This movie was made when Korea was hit by the Internet-boom. Many of those who used email and chat rooms were decent enough than the sleezeballs you meet nowadays. And I think this movie is quite believable if you can remember those years. It's not one of those lalala happy Hollywood type films where there everything goes unbelievably smooth (even the conflicts, ironically) and smoochy smoochy in the end. OK, so there IS smoochy in the and in this film too, but it just feels really different. Jeon is cute and innocent in this film, and makes the character adorable. Han who was 'pre-shiri' was a likable-enough character but sometimes you would think he is such a dick for some reason. Especially in the near end when he doesn't show himself in front of Jeon and keeps here waiting, making her sooooo sad. I just can't see the meaning of this...what are you looking for?? Just go after her you idiot!!...(which of course he did in the end) Overall, I give this 10/10 because even though it doesn't look that much nowadays, it was a sensational film and a true potential to many other films in Korea.
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