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By Chance japanese movie review
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By Chance
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by michelleoc
Jan 11, 2021
Completed
Overall 4.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 2.0
This review may contain spoilers

Completely Implausible

Oh my goodness, where do I begin? The concept of this sounded like it might be good, but it went wrong in so many ways. Town that she visited was beautiful, but the film quality was lacking.

So, the male lead loses his fiance and finds her doppelganger and convinces her to come and have some pictures taken as the dead fiance. He doesn't have any pictures of her? If you were so in love with her, wouldn't you have photos of things that you've done together?

The dissertation she wrote was rejected and so, being depressed, she agrees to go to another country, meet strange people and have pictures taken wearing the dead woman's clothes. Creepy much? The whole dissertation thing could have been left out completely, it added nothing to the story.

The dead fiance cheated with an employee of the fiance. This was never discovered by the fiance and handled. So, the co-worker is creepy, too and likes the doppelganger.

The main couple only had a couple of encounters - he saved her from a lizard (that was WAY over the top!), they spent the afternoon sightseeing. They speak different languages and can't understand one another. So, how in the world could they determine that they were in love with one another?!?! For his part, he liked her because she looked like the fiance. For her part, who knows?

If a story is told well, all can be explained in a two-hour movie. This movie MIGHT have been better had it been episodic and there would have been more time to actually develop a relationship.
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