White Valentine

1999
White Valentine
6| 1h41m| en| More Info
Released: 13 February 1999 Released
Producted By: Tae Chang Enterprises
Country: South Korea
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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A girl named Jung-min writes to a young man named Hyun-jun, who is serving in the army. She lies about her age and claims to be a teacher. As Jung-min turns twenty, a 30-year-old man, who has eyes filled with sadness moves into her village. Every night, he sends letters through a pigeon to a deceased woman he loved dearly. He sends them high up in the sky, knowing that he will never get a reply. Then one day, like magic, he receives a letter. The letters sent through pigeons reveal someone's loneliness and sadness. And the two people meet each other by sheer chance..

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floratang33-892-771589 I love this movie, when I first watch it, I did not like it at all, but when I rethink about it, watch it again, it is touch me very much. This movie, it is not about how much good at its plot, it is good at emotion it want express. It will make me think about first love. I love actress way to deal her feeling for the actor. She know he is the man she write all these years, she know how much she love him, but she did not tell him, because she did not want disturb him, so she choice accompany him quietly. and she painting, the painting place her love,her missing, all her feeling for him. many years later, she published all her painting, coincidentally, he see that book and know she is the girl who accompany him before, at that moment, he finally acknowledge her feeling all these years, it already very beautiful, love is just oneself thing, you ever did not need to tell the person you love, even you just let all the feeling stay in you heart, it still be very beautiful. because love someone feeling will always stays in you mind, many years later, both of them think about it, I think they will still have beautiful memories stay in their heart,it is enough. They are together or not is not so important, most important is we all remember or we all ever have this kind feeling, beside I think painting your love for someone, and published as a book, and he could pick it in the bookstore, and watch it and acknowledge all the painting is you saying you love him, it is quite impossible romantic. nowadays most of people are lack of this feeling, maybe we could replay in here.
Desertman84 White Valentine is a love story between two people that communicated through letters with a white pigeon as a carrier. The film has great promise considering that both leads have a lot of things in common like pain and loneliness. Also, both characters, Kim Jung-min and Park Hyun- jun, have issues in their lives that could probably be resolved by being in romantic relationship together. Unfortunately, the movie ended with more questions to be asked rather than answered as the ending left the entire story with more questions to be answered. The movie had solid leads in both Park Sin-Yang and Gianna Jun. They are known in South Korea as very talented performers.Aside from that, the supporting cast were also commendable. It could have been a great movie with the talented cast involved in it. Unfortunately,they instead saved the movie from being a horrible one as writers left story the fate of the lead characters to chance literally and figuratively. Sad but true.Only people who like traditional love stories and fans of Gianna Jun would probably like this movie.
colcam White Valentine is strongly "cultural based storytelling" instead of canned and stale boy-girl meet/part/reconcile structure storytelling.Many Americans only think of a romance or love story as having one format, one way of progressing, while the rest of the world might be very familiar with the "American" format, Americans tend to miss the nuances of other cultures.In this case the lack of money-- not poverty, just a lack of money, the cross generational bonding and emotional ties, the way the characters need to balance their family ties with cultural norms as they try to move toward goals that they personally choose, this set of culture based guidelines makes the story more difficult to understand, and, on top of the simple cultural difference, the story is a story that is less romance that the personal journey story for the two leads as each heads toward their personal destination.The question of what happens to "the two" is less important to the movie than the question of what happens "to each" of the characters. Not for everyone, be it in Korea, China, Japan, or the USA, this is a story of two personal tales, two personal stories, each bouncing off the other, each providing the other story the dynamic to stay in motion..
jjhfan (I won't say any spoilers here, so you can read it freely)White Valentine is a really traditional love story. Not only this, it's also a somewhat confusing movie. I don't know if it was because of the subs, but it got confusing in some parts.This movie isn't very great since it really didn't have any climax. It's one of those movies you watch and when it ends, it makes you think "What? It's over already?". Yeah, and it has some unnecessary scenes, which makes its pace really slow...It's strange because it doesn't really have a "main" story. I mean, there's a lot of short stories (by story, I mean the character's personal problems) gathered altogether, which really doesn't matter in the movie. This is why it's confusing, because it gets like this: The movie shows you about a little particular problem that one of the two main characters is having. And, even though it gets resolved, in the end this really didn't matter in the movie's main story!! These little problems are just there to confuse you!And here's the most strange part: the movie's main story is actually all these "little personal problems" gathered together.Well, but overall it's a good movie, thanks to the good acting of the main characters."Ok, so should I watch it or not?" I'd say, watch it only if you're a Jeon Ji Hyun fan, or if you're really a fan of traditional love stories. Even though I like both JJH and traditional love stories, it didn't really satisfy me. I'd still recommend Il Mare over this one. (for people who likes just love stories)If you're going to watch this movie, the tip is: pay a lot of attention in the plot and the subs (or dubs, if it's your case).