3 - WHERE'S MY SOULMATE?
12:42 AMdes·ti·ny
n. pl. des·ti·nies
1. The inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person or thing is destined; one's lot.
2. A predetermined course of events considered as something beyond human power or control: "Marriage and hanging go by destiny" (Robert Burton).
3. The power or agency thought to predetermine events: Destiny brought them together.
Turn Left, Turn Right is a Taiwanese movie in 2003. This is a movie about two people (Gigi Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro), who are destined to be together but by some twist of circumstances they never find each other.
At first I wasn't attracted to it, I was
easily getting bored watching it, that I almost fell asleep de to the story is
about two people who live in the same building right next to each other,
separated only by a wall, and they are always near each other but can't seem to
find one another. For short, they are soulmates. He turns left, she turns
right. They’re in love but they always miss each other. Because of that, I
never thought that I would be this curious in the story when I watched it.
Because I was always waiting for the time when the two of them will meet and
how will they react. Because normally in a romantic comedy stories, they
already kiss and hug and they will live together but this story is kind of
different. Because it is like a love at first sight, and didn't know that they
are also soulmates, and also cross to each other.
It's a pretty cruel film because Once they do meet, the forces of nature intervene, and along the way each acquires a nemesis. Each nemesis is over-the-top, extremely loud, profane, and more than anything else – exceedingly obnoxious. We see them crossing paths (almost) on a continuing basis. They ride bikes in the opposite directions on each side of the same street. Or they pass in a revolving door one coming, one going. Or on escalator – one goes up and the other goes down. Ditto the Metro station – one boarding one exiting.
But despite the obstacles they are still
willing to find each other in order to live happily ever after, light-hearted
drama, but conceptually quite strong and pure. it is what most
romantic-comedies are at their core. A fairy tale story for adults.
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