星期五, 9月 15, 2006

Facing Window

Facing Window is an emotionally complex story about a young wife who has two kids with 9-year marriage. She worked in the company which packed chickens as a bookkeeper. Actually, it is not what she would like to be for the mutual life. She would like to be a pastry chief, own her business, but pressure and bondage in the reality make her no chance to fulfill her dreams, because the man she married has a precarious job with irresolute personality. As time goes by, all of these trivial reasons accumulating caused her out of breath, and more and more frustrated and impatient for her graying marriage. She projected her ordinary lives onto another world which could lead her to find a way out of her boring and simple life.

She turned to a mysterious young man who lived across from her window. When the night is falling, she stayed in the kitchen alone, stared out of her window, and then wondered about her lives and the mysterious guy. The strange guy living in a block opposite her was peeping through the window to see and wonder about her as well. However, they didn't know they have feeling for each other until her husband brought an elderly guy who lost his memory with unknown past into their house as a catalyst.

At first, she couldn't understand why her husband did not send the old guy in the police station. They had big fights for this issue, but later she changed her mind and even tried to help the old guy evoke his memory while she had some interaction with him. From my viewpoint, her husband is full of sympathy with nice heart. He thought it is cruel to put an old, poor guy in the police station without any relatives. On the other hand, his wife wasn't wrong, because it is dangerous to take some strangers home. It is understandable because they have two young kids.

Anyway, the director used very skillful ways to link the fate of the old man, couples, and neighbor together. Besides, he mixed with humane weakness, fear, struggle, decision, and emotional confusion which normal people are afraid to touch in reality into the plot. Some audience will feel pity for the women what the decision she made in the end of movie, because she chose the family and to betray her true feeling. Others will think she did the right choice to keep her family.

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