So I rented The Lake House from redbox.
It's exactly the kind of movie that I would certainly never pay $3.99 to rent, and would probably catch for "free" on HBO, if I still had a subscription. But for $1.06 (including tax), I'm game.
During the opening credits, I noted that it was based on a Korean film called Il Mare.
And I was enjoying the movie, it being a self-indulgent, tear-inducing chick-flick.
But then as the movie progressed, I realized that I wasn't sure if this was going to be a City of Angels, or a Wings of Desire.
In Wings of Desire, an angel discovers a lovely trapeze artist, literally falls, sells his gear, finds her, and lives happily ever after.
In City of Angels, an angel stalks an unhappy female surgeon, falls, gets mugged, finds her after many trials and tribulations, loves her for one night, watches her die horribly in a bike v. logging truck accident, and then lives happily never after as a mortal who has tasted love for one brief moment.
To be honest, it's really all just a matter of how relatively Hollywood-ized and tainted the story becomes in the telling.
And despite either eventuality, I still ended up snuffling and weeping at the end.
Now, I'm going to go watch Failure to Launch, also a $1.06 pick.
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I watched Failure to Launch on the plane. I liked it, but I'm a sucker for romantic comedy. (And the memories for that specific movie intertwines with How to Lose a Man in 10 Days.)
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