review

Rating: 7/10 (16 November 2014)

Nothing to this film diverges from the expedient path of what is crafted to encounter a wide audience's expectation. When the man the woman will fall in love for first appears, who doesn't know that is the man the woman will fall in love for? And so forth, and so on. A series of well played clichÃ©s, each eliciting some cheering, some even stock tears.
And yet. And yet among the assorted humanity of this film, betwixt the sea, the mountain, trees, fire, thunder and storm, timid, as timid as a fallen fragment of inexplicable heaven by accident fell onto the Earth, lies a lost angel. The camera finds the strength to let us see the bottomless offense it takes when coming in touch with humankind: the contrast between inferno and heavens is ice that melts anything, demands for an undying tear, and stands as a genuine cinematic moment.