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When Han Sung-hyun (Jung-Jae Lee) moves into his new house, Il Mare (trans. Sea), he receives a Christmas card dated December 1999 from Kim Eun-ju (Ji-hyun Jun) requesting him to forward some letters to her new address. Sung-hyun assumes that this is a joke as it is 1997, and nobody has lived in his newly built house, which was designed by his father. As a laugh Sung-hyun writes back and points out the date and year to Eun-ju. This causes some suspicion between Eun-ju and Sung-hyun, but Eun-ju persists in writing as she is desperate for the letters that she is awaiting. This leads two of them to discover the puzzling time-traveling aspects of the mail-box that is outside of Il Mare. They begin to write more personal letters to one another which leads them to sharing large amounts of affection for each other. This then leads to a love story that defies both time and space, which is told through the subtle use of camerawork instead of the traditional use of dialogue. In addition, Il Mare uses the esthetics of architectural art which is the only art that can truly affect our space and receptive senses such as touch. This has a symbolic meaning as Eun-ju and Sung-hyun cannot touch each other, since they are displaced in time and space. In the end, Il Mare provides a truly brilliant cinematic experience as it touches all of the arts. |
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