Shades of the Heart

It so boring, it bored me within 20mins. But I kept watching, thought something gonna pops up. Guess what I was wrong, totally wasted my time. Another reason of my watching this crap is for IU, but she were only in first 15 mins.

Talking about the what the movie really about?

After getting divorced , Chang-seok returns to Korea and readies to publish a novel based on his own life. Mi-young recollects her meeting him and their past together. Yoo-jin shares a leftover cigarette with him and thinks about her past. Sung-ha tries his best to nurse his dying wife. Ju-eun, a bartender who has lost her memories after a car accident, collects memories of her patrons... Chang-seok listens and hears stories of people around him and feels his heart changing and begins writing a new story.

That's all of it. Nothing else was in the movie.

Story went nowhere! Lee Ji-eun is only in this movie for less the 15 minutes!

This movie is ok. But, it very slow. The characters in the movie talk so slow that I played it on 1.5 speed, still at some part the characters are speaking painfully slow. But, it was interesting to hear the story of the different characters in the story.

Having watched only a few works of director Kim, I felt like the theme of loss and love always finds itself a special place in his mind evidently in his work. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is into slow burn and realistic movies. Although I love how director Kim managed his scene and let the characters serendipitously met each other, I think the dialogues' quality is not consistent. Honestly, there are some parts which are a bit too straightforward or some unnatural parts which made the watching experiences less enjoyable. However, such amazing performance from all these actors kinda made up for it. Overall, a good movie.

This is an introspective meditation on life, loss & loneliness. The film is a sequence of half-a-dozen conversations between the main character, Chang Seok, and the various people he encounters on his walks around Seoul. Each of them plays like a short film within a themed narrative. Each was poetic. Each was beautifully acted. Each was shot by an old soul... for old souls.