Movie Review: "Turn Left, Turn Right"

Movie review: “Turn Left, Turn Right”

I, together with my block mates watched a movie in our school’s audio visual room. It was titled “Turn Left, Turn Right”. At first, I thought it was a horror movie because of the title, but thankfully it wasn’t.

“Turn Left, Turn Right” is a Taiwanese film aired in 2003 which was based on a book named “A Chance of Sunshine”.  The story follows a man and a woman who live in buildings right next to each other, though somehow, they never once met each other since they were separated only by a concrete wall.

The man, named John, was a violinist who works various jobs in hopes of getting lucky and become a famous master violinist. The woman, Eve, is a translator working for a book publishing company.

The two accidentally met by the fountain at the park. When Eve dropped her papers into the water, John offered to help which also caused his music sheets to fall into the fountain as well.

The two dried their papers out on the open area of the park and introduced themselves to one another. They soon found out that they met many years ago when their schools had a field trip. They decided to give other their numbers, but parted rather abruptly due to an oncoming storm.

They got back to their apartments, happily at first, but then became upset since both their papers became smudged and were unreadable due to rain water. They both spent days, and even weeks, trying to find one another by trying to decipher the numbers that were left and began calling random people in hopes of getting through each other.

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Long story short, they finally found each other after an earthquake which caused the concrete wall between their apartments to crumble into pieces.

Now after watching this wonderful movie, I have a much better respect for people who exert so much effort for the people they love.

Shoutout to the people who never give up on their loved ones, keep doing you.