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Information
- A.k.a.
- Ditto
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 110 min.
- Director
- Jeong-kwon Kim
- Genres
- Romance, Sci-Fi
- Rating *
- 7.2
- Votes *
- 1,319
- Checks
- 84
- Favs
- 3
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 3.6% (1:28)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
A cheeseball time travel romance out of Korea, Ditto sits at the crossroads of that same year's Il Mare (remade as The Lakehouse) and Frequency, as university students from 1979 and 2000 start to magically communicate across the years via ham radio. They have other romantic potentials in their lives so to call it a romance isn't exactly it, but that poetic ending does justify calling it that. I suppose it's about relationships one builds up in one's head, and how infatuation, even when reciprocated, doesn't necessarily mean one is fated to be with the person. There's definitely something there, but the movie takes a little too long to get the premise going, and therefore makes us wait for the more relatable characters in the year 2000, in favor of Kim Ha-neul's overacting of teenage emotions. I suppose if I find it cheesy, a lot of it down to the oppressive piano score (the strings, often used for the year 2000, are way better), but the soapy acting definitely plays a part. 2 years ago