Honestly, movies don't normally make me cry because I'm quite sarcastic and cynical...but at several points in this movie (the hospital scene, the train departure, the restaurant meeting, when the mother finds out he is dead) I was absolutely bawling like a baby. I mean, literally, tears streaming down my face. Did this happen to anyone else?
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Well, that's why they call it a 'tearjearker' you little baby. I was actually inured to all of the scenes you mentioned above, being the hardened cynic that I am, and because I was forewarned of the film's slushiness by others.
Throughout all the scenes you mentioned above, I was pretty proud of myself and the stoney demeanor that I maintained while watching this film. In fact, I believed I had one-upped all of my friends who swore by this movie. I also felt quite proud of myself that I was able to cut through all the sap and schmaltz that this movie swims in, especially by being able to detect the film's overt sentimentality and absurd mawkishness and all of its contrived implausibilitiies right from the beginning.
Basically, I felt pretty confident about my feelings toward this movie, i.e., until I witnessed the very last scene. This was the scene where Sangmin showed Ji-ae the necklace he had had all along at the river. I don't know what overcame me, but that scene completely dissolved me into a blubbering and sputtering mess. To this day, I cannot explain why or exactly why I responded that way.
you little baby? Takes one to know one, you seem to have bawled your eyes out too! It seems that for some reason you wanted to be rather cynical about the movie, watching it with the intention of not crying...i guess it's just that good a "tearjerker", eh.
shareThis was my exact sentiments, the entire way through...but like you that last scene, with the necklace reveal...broke whatever was holding back my emotions...and damn...i wept...i wept...and i wept!!!
Truthly great film but A Moment to Remember remains my Son Ye-Jin NUMBA 1....I practically cried myself to sleep and woke up crying....LOVE KOREAN FILMS
LOVE SON YE-JIN. she an angel <3
I also bawled my eyes out, of all the korean movies i've seen, I think this one made me cry the most...and although i'm quite a sucker for human drama, i also know a bad movie from a good one.
All the parts that I personally loved about this movie took place in the historical parts of this movie, between two fine actors, and their restrained love for each other.
The two scenes that really did it in for me, was the one at the train station, and then when we returns to meet her at the restaurant and pretends he's not blind. And of course, a third, the scene by the river when she learns of his death.
I still get a bit choked up when i think of that movie...she's a great actress, a very charming classical beauty if you will.
One of the best Korean films I have ever seen.
shareThe scene where the two lovers meet at the restaurant.... what a "classical" scene..
shareAnd the train scene... that one's a really "classical" scene.
The acting is done so well that it seems so real. Esp. in the hospital where Jo Seung-woo tries to resist from crying but does. Great acting: that's what makes this movie a "tearjerker.".
it's ragtime!
I agree with you.
Though I didn't "bawl" when I saw this film, it still remains as one of my favorite movies.
I cried soooo much during this movie. I seriously used up a box of tissues...it aired late at night and my mum was wondering where all the honking noises were coming from.
The train scene gets to me...and yeah the part where he's pretending he's not blind. I love this film sooooo much. Sigh.
Too much effort...why not just give him a wedgie?
Hey if you liked this movie and haven't seen 'Sad Movie' yet, I recommend you strongly.It is one of the best dramas I have seen and definitely in my top ten list. Tae-Soo (Ki-woo Lee) takes a role in that film too. You will cry much much more than this film. Yeah I loved this movie and I cried my eyes out too esp. at the lake scene but I am glad that at last somehow Jia-hae and Ju-ha's love met..
sharethe part where tae-soo tries to commit suicide... really sad...
by the way, sad movie was even sadder. the ending was so SAD!!!
I'm from NEPAL.
the restaurant scene was T___T
omg through the whole movie I was crying
it was SUCH a brilliant movie
touched me so much
This movie killed me. Bloody brilliant... I didn't know I could cry that much... felt like crap when it ended, I honestly didn't want it to end.
shareI would like to know what happened to that young couple. Also I would like to have seen the mom return from America to be with her daughter. Then the actress could have played her in the same room as both mom and daughter and they could have had split screens, like Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap. lol
shareI'm a girl who hates romantic comedies. You know the kind...the Meg Ryan/Jennifer Aniston kind of stupid chick flicks. I find them laughable.
And here is a movie,not just with 1 or 2 cliches.....but filled with every single cliche you can think of, exactly as its title implies..."the classic". And what an amazing movie it was!
It is very aparent to me that the director decided to take all these cliches on purpose and make a movie to PROVE that it's not the cliches that make romantic comedies stigmatised as "chick flicks" and generally "bad movies"....it's the bad screenplay and the bad acting that does!
Respect to both director and actors....AMAZING job indeed!
Plus the music is just perfect for this film. I just have to turn the DVD on and I start tearing up.
shareI just watched the movie (poor me, I just knew South Korea has good bussiness in film industry) and I could say.. eventhough this film has some predictable plots, idk why it has left very memorable impression in my mind. I will definitely rent & watch this again and over again, and it is definitely one great movie.
About the topic, I cannot say which scenes that suscessfully made me cried or bawled like a baby because there was none. But I can say, knowing Jo-hee and Joon-haa cannot unite at the end makes my heart felt very painful. So, here I am talking more about building the story as a whole.
Memorable movie for anyone who has same story, as well!
A moment to remember, Always, My sassy girl...Watch these with a lot of tissue boxes next to you.Also-but not so much-Windstruck(prequel to Sassy) and Daisy.There are some more, like Il mare, A millionaire's first love, More than blue, Oasis-but, haven't watched these yet...And when you are done with the romance genre, Oldboy, I saw the devil, Seom, Nameless gangster, Sympathy for mister & lady, New world, Tale of two sisters, Memories of murder, The chaser, Bittersweet life, The man from nowhere etc...
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