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Title: If you thought this was good you really need to watch the original!
Review: There's a Korean movie I saw several years ago (2000) which left a lasting impression on me. It was called "Il Mare" and was about a man and a woman who are both living at the same lake house but in different times. Sound familiar? "Il Mare" was restrained, romantic, tragic, really beautiful, with a bittersweet ending that lingered in the mind long after the movie was over. Despite knowing full well that Hollywood is great at taking brilliant foreign movies and remaking mediocre dumbed down versions of them for American audiences, I still went to see "The Lake House." As expected they ruined it. I guess they figured the original Korean ending was not "happy enough" for US audiences! Whatever. Anyway, don't take my word for it, go see the original.
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