Tune In For Love (2019)
It's been a while. A long long while.
I haven't written a review in quite some time so, for me, this is a big deal. I started writing these way back when I was in my second year of university as a little project. A review a day (oh how naive I was). But I trailed off somewhere along the line; films just stopped interesting me and nothing new was grabbing my attention like it once had. Where I had once been able to spot a diamond in the rough, now I saw nothing, nothing special, unique or worthwhile.
As I get older, I become more and more reflective; I think about the time I've spent, the time I will spend; I think about my past and future with more and more scrutiny and longing; I think about all the loss in my life, the failures, the struggles, and long for the day I finally succeed. So, with all this swimming in my mind, turning on a movie I may have enjoyed way back when is just not something I am as capable of doing.
I'm not going to sit here and say that Tune In For Love (Ji-woo Jung, Heart Blackened) changed my life, because it didn't; there's very little media that's truly accomplished that. What I will say is that this film, watched spot on the hour Britain left the EU, (a highly emotional time for myself), left an impression on me unlike anything else in these past few months. As I sat there considering the impending future and the additional struggles it would bring with it, Tune In For Love offered me a heartwarming story that I could, for its 2-hour run-time, fully immerse myself in.
Korea has a knack for making media that makes me cry. Live (Hee-Kyung No, The Most Beautiful Goodbye In The World), a show I've toyed with reviewing, is by far my favourite piece of media of all time, and something that genuinely brought me to tears. It's hard to explain, for their plots are, for the most part, just like the west's. Tune In For Love is When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, Shock And Awe), Live is just like any other procedural drama you've seen before. What sets them aside from just being cookie cutter remakes is a human element that's completely lacking from the west. Korean media, or that which I have seen, offers an insight into genuine human relationships unlike anyone else. It feels raw, real and more often than not, sweet. We get the sentimentality, the cheesy romance, but through it all, it feels believable. Tune In For Love offers this feeling, this sense of a beautiful blossoming romance, with all the movie trimmings, but it manages to make you feel as if it could happen to you.
I loved Tune In For Love, and that honestly came as a surprise. Yesterday, for no good reason, I watched 2019's Hellboy (Neil Marshall, Lost In Space), and it was a farce and a half. I thought to myself that anything I put on would be drivel, and even Korea's knack for cinema couldn't save my dwindling love for the medium. But, as I have hoped for for so long, I was sucked back in. There's so many films sat in my Netflix watch list that I want to review and maybe, just maybe, Tune In For Love will be the push to do that.
I know I haven't really reviewed Tune In For Love, but for me this is the perfect way of conveying what's so good about it. Standard reviews bore me, just saying what plot points work, whether or not the cinematography was nice, the score, acting all that. Sure, they're the fundamental components of a film, but for me what's important is not the ingredients, but how it tastes (weird analogy I know... but hopefully you get what I mean). I like films that make me feel something when I finish them, even if it wasn't the next Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, The Other Side Of The Wind). If a film can make me cry, feel nostalgic, long for another life, or just feel an emotion I'm not usually privy to, then I'd consider that a good film. Tune In For Love made me feel all of those things, so I'd say that makes it a pretty great film. Wouldn't you?
9/10
I haven't written a review in quite some time so, for me, this is a big deal. I started writing these way back when I was in my second year of university as a little project. A review a day (oh how naive I was). But I trailed off somewhere along the line; films just stopped interesting me and nothing new was grabbing my attention like it once had. Where I had once been able to spot a diamond in the rough, now I saw nothing, nothing special, unique or worthwhile.
As I get older, I become more and more reflective; I think about the time I've spent, the time I will spend; I think about my past and future with more and more scrutiny and longing; I think about all the loss in my life, the failures, the struggles, and long for the day I finally succeed. So, with all this swimming in my mind, turning on a movie I may have enjoyed way back when is just not something I am as capable of doing.
I'm not going to sit here and say that Tune In For Love (Ji-woo Jung, Heart Blackened) changed my life, because it didn't; there's very little media that's truly accomplished that. What I will say is that this film, watched spot on the hour Britain left the EU, (a highly emotional time for myself), left an impression on me unlike anything else in these past few months. As I sat there considering the impending future and the additional struggles it would bring with it, Tune In For Love offered me a heartwarming story that I could, for its 2-hour run-time, fully immerse myself in.
Korea has a knack for making media that makes me cry. Live (Hee-Kyung No, The Most Beautiful Goodbye In The World), a show I've toyed with reviewing, is by far my favourite piece of media of all time, and something that genuinely brought me to tears. It's hard to explain, for their plots are, for the most part, just like the west's. Tune In For Love is When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, Shock And Awe), Live is just like any other procedural drama you've seen before. What sets them aside from just being cookie cutter remakes is a human element that's completely lacking from the west. Korean media, or that which I have seen, offers an insight into genuine human relationships unlike anyone else. It feels raw, real and more often than not, sweet. We get the sentimentality, the cheesy romance, but through it all, it feels believable. Tune In For Love offers this feeling, this sense of a beautiful blossoming romance, with all the movie trimmings, but it manages to make you feel as if it could happen to you.
I loved Tune In For Love, and that honestly came as a surprise. Yesterday, for no good reason, I watched 2019's Hellboy (Neil Marshall, Lost In Space), and it was a farce and a half. I thought to myself that anything I put on would be drivel, and even Korea's knack for cinema couldn't save my dwindling love for the medium. But, as I have hoped for for so long, I was sucked back in. There's so many films sat in my Netflix watch list that I want to review and maybe, just maybe, Tune In For Love will be the push to do that.
I know I haven't really reviewed Tune In For Love, but for me this is the perfect way of conveying what's so good about it. Standard reviews bore me, just saying what plot points work, whether or not the cinematography was nice, the score, acting all that. Sure, they're the fundamental components of a film, but for me what's important is not the ingredients, but how it tastes (weird analogy I know... but hopefully you get what I mean). I like films that make me feel something when I finish them, even if it wasn't the next Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, The Other Side Of The Wind). If a film can make me cry, feel nostalgic, long for another life, or just feel an emotion I'm not usually privy to, then I'd consider that a good film. Tune In For Love made me feel all of those things, so I'd say that makes it a pretty great film. Wouldn't you?
9/10
De absoluta conformidad.
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