Will you believe?

Just watch the Lakehouse by Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Enjoyed it alot.

Can't comment about the acting cos I don't really have an eye for such things. I thought it was good.

What I liked about it is the concept of the whole movie and the warm atmosphere that is smeared lightly with bitterness it creates. I was truly captivated.

Time, an insurmountable barrier that no one can touch and see but everyone believes in it. What if, just what if, you can reach out and touch someone that you can never see or touch. Climb over the wall that all your life you thought that would never be climbed?

The fates of the protagonists were intertwined even before they met, before they know they will meet maybe even before time itself. From the start they were not meant to be, not meant to meet and definitely not meant to fall so deeply in love. But somehow they did. By the magical workings of a mailbox outside the Lakehouse where the paths of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock inevitably crossed each other.

It started as an innocent letter to the new tenant of the Lakehouse which ended up in the hands of the old owner, not in present time but 2 years before. These 2 people found support and understanding in each other. Perhaps it is behind the mask of time and letters that they freely allow themselves to open up to each other. Perhaps only by this way is it "meant to be".

The movie is filled with scenes where Keanu Reeves from 2 years before tried to make his presence known to Sandra Bullock. But she did not know who he was. While in the present time, love has always been there for Sandra Bullock even though she did not know it.

Maybe that happens to us all the time. Although not in such an exagerated manner, perhaps what we are looking for has been there all the while. Quite a comforting thing to know isn't it? To be able to tell yourself that maybe, just maybe, around the next corner is the love of your life. （That's why I always walk so fast! Haha!)

But I am sure that at this point, you guys have picked up on the problem of such a relationship. Time and space. The fact is that they don't really know each other in their own time. How are they to meet? How are they to physically feel each other's presence? How are you to love a person who "isn't there"?

In order for them to each other, they would have to "know" each other for 2 years then wait for each other for 2 years. It's a time thing. Some of you might ask why don't they just wait? Simple enough.

Actually, they "met" each other right at the start of the movie. Keanu Reeves died in an accident and Sandra Bullock was the doctor on the scene. So in fact, Sandra Bullock was talking to a man who is supposed to be dead. If that's the case, how are they to ever meet?

Moreover, given that the thing they had between them might never work out, does it make sense to wait? Would an average person wait? They could not have seen what was coming even though they were given the extraordinary gift to transcend time to reach each other.

I won't tell you the ending or anymore about the movie cos I think I have said more than enough. For those intending to watch the movie perhaps you could think more about what is behind the apparent plot.

I've heard people tell me how the plot does not make sense and how the story is too lovey dovey, etc. Actually in hindsight, I do agree that the plot does not make much physical sense. (hey gimme a break! I'm a physicist!) Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Frankyly speaking, the loopholes of the plot don't matter to me at all. It does not change what the movie said to me.

When what you have in front of you is an impossibility, will you continue to take another step forward? Will you throw out your logic? Will you step out of your comfort zone? Will you wait? Will you believe?