WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (with Sandra Bullock)

What's special about that movie WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: What I especially like about that movie is that it often talks without speaking.

Of course the instrumental parts (issit orchestra ?) belong to this, above average music orchestra painting at timelines in the movie that would feel naked otherwise. And the first interesting thing about the music score is that the empty road is not filled with JUST music but with a music landscape of hills and valleys, i.e. changing emotions.

And then there is also the second interesting means of emotion paiting in this movie and that is the face of Lucy (and also the faces of other people in the movie): Lucy (Sandra Bullock) arrives at the house of Peter's family and at first you neither see the car nor see Lucy. However you hear the music painting, painting a balanced landscape but as the car gets closer to the house the music rises its emotions and paints some nervousness into the landsacpe. Lucy's face exactly matches this nervousness, these mixed emotions, but it also shows her inner balance at the same time.

Before the taxi came into view, the music painting had already started on just the empty road. I actually wondered then why there was emotion in the music when there was just an empty road visible. But then I understood as the taxi came into view: The music had described Lucy's emotions even though she was not yet visible.

Very sophisticated music painting - or more exactly - skillful timing. Such skillful painting can not be found every day.

And also funny: Lucy's feelings are like layers: There is the basic calm layer of her character shining through and then there is the HOW-TO-DEAL-WITH-THIS-SITUATION layer of emotions on top that shows her doubts and nervouseness.

Her face talks and the music paints a supporting landsacpe and no words are necessary to make the audience understand what's going on. That's what I mean when I say this movie is talking without speaking.

There are many other examples in this movie where there are no words wasted. It's so great that the silence, the music and the faces (Lucy's face) are speaking so nicely in this movie.

Making "THE LAKE HOUSE" work

I like that movie THE LAKE HOUSE from 2006 with Keanu Reaves and Sandra Bullock.

I like it more than the original Korean movie from 2000 - see IMDB.COM for that plot: http://imdb.com/title/tt0282599/plotsummary , entitled Il Mare (International: English title), Si Wall Ae (South Korean title).

However, the timeline does not seem to work. So, I now wonna try to make things work and since pictures = actions overrule words in real life, the movie picture frames shall reign before the spoken text, too. What I mean by this will probably become clearer later on.

My date selection appears in green.
Essential must-be-correct movie chosen dates appear in red.
Wrong movie dates appear in light grey.

Explanations are given to justify the chosen date.

********************************

2002-01-05 (2004-04-14 Wrong movie date in trailer)
Alex gets to know Kate through the mail box

Explanation: Alex moves into the lake house in winter. It can not be in April of that year ! It snows again in April but that's not the time when Alex moves into the lake house. Alex and Kate exchange mails already when Kate warns him to beware of the upcomming April snow fall of that year.

2002-02-14 Valentine's day
2002-04-05 Second snow fall of the year, return of winter, red scarf

2003-02-13 Alex asks Kate to have a date in two years' time in 2005 on Valentine's day.
2003-02-14 Valentine's day

2004-01-05 Time span two years: Kate gets to know Alex through the mail box

2004-02-14 Valentine's day

2005-02-14 Valentine's day: Alex asks his brother about the date of the day (wrong answer in movie is: 2006-02-14). Alex dies on this day.
Kate waits for Alex in the restaurant in the evening but he doesn't show up (since he died that afternoon).

2006-02-14 Kate visits Visonary Vanguard (the company of Alex and his brother) together with her fiancée to talk about the interior design of their new apartment. During their talk she learns that Alex died (wrong time span: two years ago - one year ago - in the afternoon).

She then drives to the lake house and warns Alex through the mail box. Alex receives the warning in 2004 (one year before his actual death). He has enough time to avoid the accident. He receives the warning in 2004 because two years is the time span that their messages are seperated by.

It is neither necessary nor logical to also apply the two years' time span to Alex' date of death: The two year time span just applies to the time span of the messages.

***********************************

The movie came out in 2006, so 2006-02-14 sounds plausible. The above timeline is preliminary and subject to improvment.-