When in school, we often learn about the hand-in-hand relationship between distance and time. But can distance ever be a function of time? The parallel universe concept, of your past running side-by-side with the present in sync, with the separation of penetrable wormholes, is something that has been explored by many a book/film (Timeline, Sliding Doors).
But, what's interesting is the way "Lakehouse" blends it into a heartfelt love story, and effortlessly capturing an emotion that is rather rare in modern cinema: sheer helplessness.
Other than the fact that everyone seems to take the "issue" in the movie, rather comfortably - i guess that can be covered well by the fact that everyone reads Dostoevsky and other unconventional literature that was ahead of its time - and it is supposed to be 2006, where people have come to terms with so much more - but that does still appear to be a minor directorial overlook.
Also, the scene where Sandra meets Keanu at her birthday party, couldve been handled with a little more finesse. It was brushed away like lint on your best suit. But the scene where they dance in the courtyard, and hold each other, was carried out, astoundingly well.
Although they did cheezify the ending, to make it more of a chick flick than it deserved to be, Lakehouse strikes a reverberating chord. All in all, plotholes and issues aside, Lakehouse is a movie that really makes you wish that Time Travel was possible, and generating that emotion in the audience is creditworthy. How will it do at the box office? Time will tell.
Moreover, The Break-Up - LOVED the ending. That's probably the best part of the flick - in an overall broken-up screenplay, with a lot of patchwork.
In other news, lot of globe-trotting cuz of work this week. may not be able to write. but will update you all soon.
Peace out, world!
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