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.
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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.
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