House of Harmony

Saturday was a movie marathon day for me. After watching "You Are My Sunshine". I took a dinner break before continuing a 2nd movie, "House of Harmony"

The story involves the lives of 2 Asian women, mother and daughter, during the early years of 1920s to 1950s. The story starts on the familiar island of Singapore.

Mother, Mei-ling, as played by Fann Wong was a learned and cultured daughter of a well known doctor. She met a charming Mr Barclay who was unfortunate attacked and subsequently had amnesia. While nursing him back to health, she fell for him. A twist of an unfinished love story as she became pregnant and gave birth to Harmony, played by Maggie Q.

Pretty as she is, Maggie Q acting is lacking in depth and emotional portrayal. She too suffered the same fate as her mother as she fell madly in love with this real father's stepson Gideon. Will she learn from her mother's lesson or will she create her own path where inter-racial marriage was a taboo during that period of time?

It is a long movie. I wonder if the book might actually be more interested to read as the movie seem to have jump at different spots, loosely linking up certain scenes and plots. Story gets old and predictable and annoying as the main female leads tried to fight weakly (quite literally) with the society expectation.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 fairy clouds.

You Are My Sunshine

I watched a very touching Korean movie, "You Are My Sunshine".

The story starts with life of a beautiful girl who works are at coffee shop (ahem, with extra services) and the simpleton farmer. It was love at first sight for our male lead, Suk-jung while Eun-ha is just a skeptic that has been through a tough time in life and doesn't believe in love. Don't blame her when she sees the most awful things in all men.

As the love devoted Suk-jung proposed to Eun-ha, you see our female lead slowly opening up her heart to the sincerity of true simple love. Of course with any Korean movie, their love was tested as her past catches up with her while he discovered she was HIV-positive.

Plot twisted and turned as with any other Korean movies. And at the end, you feel how true love battles and wins against all odd. Quite touching movie. Except that in real life, this is really a tragedy to go through.

Rating: 3 out of 5 fairy clouds. A nice movie if you have nothing else to do and want to get a little sobbie.

A Heartful of Love

Don't we all have regrets? What if one of them is so significant that it can affected your life so much?

The plot of A Heartful of Love started with characters who have regrets in their lives which they would want to change if given a 2nd chance. This chance came in the form of them taking a flight to the town, Moji and experienced time travel to the same place 20 years ago.

The plot thickens as the characters started to unravel the truth behind their regrets. What they are actually missing out in their lives and how they realise what they need to do.

Instead of a simple time travel, they are actually transported back into the past to undo or change their lives before they could pass over. These characters were actually dead but were given a final chance to work on that one thing in their lives which they would change.

It is an amazing and touching story as you follow the characters into the personal journey of their past and how they deal with the situation; grow, let go and made peace. The storyline is very well done.

Rating: 5 out of 5 fairy clouds. This is really a MUST-SEE movie.