Always (2011)

Wonderful character development!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

My first time to make a review here. I just register to rate it 10/10 and invite everyone to watch this movie. I've watched several Korean movies this month land i just love how Koreans make a movie that gives an impact emotionally and how they make a wonderful story, not to mention their superb acting. This move is one of the best, it just stirs your emotion and the movie will linger on your thoughts for some time. Love and sacrifice is what it is. When you love someone, you will go into the depths of sacrifices if needed. Highly recommended. You will not regret watching it!

I love the movie. I have seen it several times and still like it.The best in the movie is character structure. The characters are well made. They are believable and make sense during their dramatic decisions in loyalty, fight, love and sacrifice.Here are the characters:The guy has a damaged soul resulted to his seclusion from society, deep guilt and feeling worthless because of his dark past and a special crime; his last one. Here is the point that a blind girl comes into his life accidentally. She has many problems in her work, her financial status and even her day-to-day things; however, she is easygoing, spirited and dealing with problems having a smile on his face. She turned on his dark life by music, laugh, deep passion and care for each other. Here is the point that their path revealed. The guy understand how he was engaged in making her blind above all his crimes. He went into huge sacrifice to pay for her eye operation costs. The operation went successful and she paid him back by her loyalty towards him though they lost each other. Actually the boy left her to avoid disturbing her.The story has extreme points a bit unbelievable to me. Like how the boy was the one who distract her from her driving and caused her blindness and her parents death. None of them knew this before meeting each other. Or how she traced him by chance and good guess. Besides from that, I applaud for the way these two characters are developed in the movie. The orphanage, lonely and guilty boy find passion, forgiveness and comfort in arms of a woman with great issues who care about people, animals and life beauties against her serious issues.The acting works well. I felt tears at the end of the movie, when his voice cracked in his chest since he cannot cry due to huge pain he experienced. However, we feel hopeful that he can overcome his problems by being help by his lovable woman. Isn't it inspiring? :) It really inspires you to feel life. And to believe that such pure loves are possible. And you can make it! It is how the magic of a good drama should work; I think.

This is a alright romance movie but nothing spectacular that doesn't pull anything all that new. Maybe near the end and the revealing of both sides tragic past. But even that isn't all that original. The two protagonist in this love story is between a ex-boxer by the name of Cheol-Min(So Ji-Sub) who works as a parking attendant. And the other is a blind girl by the name of Jung-Hwa(Han Hyo-Joo). Both fit the roles well, especially So Ji-Sub who isn't just a face in the movie industry but fits the tough exterior. Han Hyo-Joo is believable as a blind girl and her exterior and everything works. The beginning starts off promising but afterwards it goes in a pretty narrow direction where it becomes predictable. But the revelations of both characters is when the story starts to pick up. The thing about the plot of this flick though is that after coming up with the two protagonist, just about anyone could have written the script for this movie. There is no humor in this but it's a straightforward romance movie. And the premise like this one has been done before, "My Dear Desperado" comes to mind which I thought was a better movie.6/10

So here goes my very first ever Review in the entire world! I had to register to IMDb in order to express my emotion and share to All my profound feeling after having watched this film.I have in the many years watched various Korean movies and TV series from Swordplay, Action & Drama. When I came across this film, I did not know what to expect or how this film would be. I just wanted to watch it, and at the end of the movie; I felt content, happy and invigorated.For those of you who have not watched many Korean movies. Know this, they are a very passionate people, funny and even cute in their mannerism. Very different from your Hollywood or European movies. Please watch this movie with an open heart and let Chul-min and Junghwa take you on a journey of life through their eyes, through co-incidences, the affects the decisions we make. The trials we go through and the sacrifices we make in the name of love.I hope my dear friend that after having watched this movie through the end, that like myself you find yourself thinking of someone who you would like to share this movie with. Then go forth and spread the love.