Turn Left, Turn Right: A Twisted Fate

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       Another great movie! This movie "Turn left turn right" is actually based on a famous novel of Jimmy Liao. Yes, you're right, I know the story isn't that original but it is told and created with heart and humor which the audience would really look up to. This is a movie about fate and the unpredictable paths it takes. We get introduced to the life of the two main protagonists namely Takeshi Kaneshiro as John Liu and Gigi Leung as Eve Choi. The two go  to do their daily lives and as they meet, they pretty soon discovered that they actually already met each other when they were kids. Everything seems perfect, but after some unexpected circumstances, John and Eve exchange numbers and resolve to meet again for another date soon. Yet again, a cruel twist means that both of them lose contact because the paper where they wrote their numbers was and are frustrated that they have no obvious means of meeting again. This is where the movie starts to get interesting and intriguing. 

      John Liu is a fantastic violinist. Liu is actually very popular with women because of his looks. In the first part of the movie, he was actually being chased by a girl and he keeps hiding from her. Next is Eve Choi who is a professional literature translator and she have to translate the newest german horror-novel in which at the first part of the movie was a little bit funny because she's a little bit paranoid to her surrounding. Instead she so much more would like to translate polish love poems, but her boss doesn't give her the opportunity and just keep pressuring her to do her job properly. 

       In search of the two lovers, it was really irritating and it is really unbearable because despite of living only a few feet apart from each other, the couple never seems to cross paths. When he leaves his building he turns right, and when she leaves her building, she turns left.Their lives is basically like parallel lines. I also like the part when they introduced Terri Kwan and Dr. Wu. Kwan is a noodle shop waitress, who when making deliveries, she discovered soon that the two are searching for one another. However, she doesn't approve that they should be together because she wants John for herself. With Dr. Wu, it's exactly the same. The doctor went to college with her and he secretly admired her. Eve didn’t like him then, and still doesn’t. In the end, Kwan and Dr. Wu became a couple and they decided to help John and Eve to finally meet each other again. The story ended in an earthquake where the wall between them was destroyed and they finally meet each other again. As the film’s tagline says, "Even parallel lines might cross paths some day."

       All in all, after watching this movie, I was a little bit disappointed because the ending was a cliffhanger to everyone. I was hoping for a part two of the movie but I think they will change the title because the couple would definitely make sure that they will never be separated again nor they will not go to an opposite direction ever again. So I guess if this move had a part 2, it will definitely focus on the relationship of the two.