Lee Gun used to be a promising tennis player, but he was injured. After that, he lost all of his self-esteem, and his life completely changed. With the use of a memory eraser, his memory is erased, and he is reborn with maximum self-esteem and presence. His first manipulated love is Kyung Ju Yeon, a psychiatrist at the brain research center. Other people around him include his younger brother Lee Sin, who is ranked the world’s no.1 ranked tennis player. Meanwhile, Jeon Sae Yan is Lee Sin’s translator.
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.
All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
Both movies are about a girl who is detached from the world and doesn't really give much for anything but herself and her possessions (or so it may seem). They have a chance-encounter and things take a turn, for Lui it being stuck in a weird love-triangle, for Rio it might just be the strange relationship she got herself into not knowing if this is 'it'. They're both kind of indie movies, not your everyday cookies, with a good dash of psychology in them. You shouldn't shy away from some adult themes in both movies.
I dunno why but these movies feel similar to me. So much feels watching the two. The feeling of falling in love and wanting to be happy but because of the situation, it felt impossible. It's kind of sad, and not in a depressing way, but in a way where your heart feels warm and you just can't help but cry... I can't explain exactly, just watch!
