The Leap Years
March 21st, 2008 -- Posted in movies | No Comments »
It wasn’t a movie I’d pick to watch on my few evenings spent back home in Singapore, but it was still the reason why I watched it as well. We just got back from a long stay in Malaysia and a short visit to the factory in Indonesia. I wanted to spend some time with Annie so we made dinner plans and she suggested going for a movie. She chose this local movie ‘The Leap Years’. Since it also starred Ananda Everingham, who acted in (the Pang Brothers’) Shutter, Sunsun’s keen to watch it as well.
My first reaction during first 15 minutes of the movie… unrealistic. The plots are largely wrong and lots of things don’t make too much sense. Then I decided I should stop trying to make any sense of the movie. It’s a romantic story and romance isn’t supposed to make any sense. That helped.
I actually enjoyed it. It wasn’t a regular romance where the hero saved the day or the heroine finally declared to the man she loves. It’s a ‘feel-good’ movie… a simple love story that makes girls cry throughout the plots then smile at the end. Sounds cliche but overall still rather good with some twists toward the second half. Happy ending, nevertheless…
It wasn’t until the end of the movie when I found out… that it’s based on a Catherine Lim story “Leap of Love”. No wonder.
