4 Romantics

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2008)

A typical tragic, poignant love story that is augmented by a very well thought out story and technical and cinematic expertise in directing, editing and cinematography.
If the audience did not read the book they might feel it is about a doomed love and how the lovers' would attempt to find each other after being forcefully parted, however, the story evolves, into a tale about the guilt and remorse of the one who disrupted the lovers' love and happiness. Her own naivety, immaturity, fear, and disappointment with her own attempts and wishes for passion, lead her to doom the happiness of the lovers and eventually severely regret her own actions.
The progressive timeline is not straightforward. Futures occurrences happen before the past, a flipping back and forth, sometimes with a difference of several years other times only several minutes. This gave the movie an interesting texture and made it more artistically enjoyable yet clear since flipping back and showing what lead up to the crucial occurrence clarified the plot.
Being a little slow, epic, and overly sentimental it may arouse romantics and annoy pragmatics The ending is heartfelt and sentimental as she does what she can (incorporating into her lifestyle) to atone for her past act of indiscretion