Loving TA is Making Him Happier: On "If Love Has Providence"
Huang Zihong
"Sudden Rain" is a famous young adult emotional novel in South Korea, which has been interpreted and interpreted by countless versions of film and television works since its publication. Even in the 2000 youth comedy "My Savage Girlfriend", which was popular throughout Asia, the male protagonist had a wonderful section of being parodied in "Rainstorm" in his imagination. If it is a film that truly expands and extends the emotion and essence of the original work, then "If Love Has Providence" is an absolutely unmissable one.
In fact, the music of "If Love Has Providence" has long been familiar to us, and the earliest Chinese version is the song of the same name from Luo Zhixiang's "Gray Space", and later kicked the "Singer" program, which was a mess and Li Jian filled in the lyrics.
In the movie "If Love Has Providence", by means of interpolation, it tells the pure and elegant and simple love of mother and daughter, which belongs to the film of psychological healing. The film was released in 2003 and starred young actors Sun Yizhen, Cao Chengyou and Zhao Yincheng.
It is particularly worth mentioning that Cao Seung-woo, a single-eyelid boy who seems to be plain-looking, has contracted the male number one of the previous Korean classic romance films "Chunxiang Biography" and later "Lizard", and his meticulous acting skills are the best candidates for literary and artistic romance films.
The scene of the film begins to switch from the daughter in the play cleaning the room, inadvertently discovering a box of old things from her mother's year, from photos and letters, gradually igniting her mother's emotional career in her youth and being reborn...
It is derived from the classic bridge section in the original "Sudden Rain", the mother and daughter are in love, and they have the experience of raining and sheltering with their lovers, but the details are different.
The details of the rural scenery before the industrial age, catching fireflies, writing letters instead of old iron, live piano performances, dance parties, drama performances and other details in the film seem ordinary and easy to come by, but they test the director's ability and the actor's acting skills in minutes. Although the whole film is long, there is no sense of verbosity.
At the moment of sublimation of feelings, the scene of the lover who tearfully bid farewell to the battlefield at the railway station has some remnants of the classic war love literary and artistic film "Soul Breaking Blue Bridge", which is also deeply touched and lamentable, which is the first tear point in the film.
The second tear point in the film is the scene where the male protagonist is blind, but he behaves very relaxed and free in front of the female protagonist, and carefully prepares a set of lines that he thinks is seamless, until he is recognized by the heroine, and he instantly understands the good intentions of the male protagonist: loving someone is not necessarily to have TA, but to make TA happier.
The third tear point in the film is at the end of the whole film, the heroine with the young girl, tears in the landscape and the remembrance of the male protagonist.
It may be that in the Korean dramas we usually contact, soap operas are mostly soap operas, and the actors' acting skills are very exaggerated, but it has to be said that in many Korean literary and art films, especially in romance films, the acting skills of young actors are very delicate and mature, and they are very clean and pure love films, "If Love Has Providence" and "Lizard" belong to this style.