The film follows the aesthetic route of Japanese and Korean pure love films: pleasing male and female protagonists, soft and fresh pictures, soothing and nostalgic atmosphere, coupled with vivid and delicate details, showing the feelings of first love, melancholy youth and helpless reality.
The most fundamental reason for the success of this film is to respect life itself. Although this work with the texture of the times has a cliché story, the director who majored in architecture did not overly glorify his first love, nor did he deliberately provocative. Build a bridge between "architecture" and "love", and finally restore a pure love fifteen years ago.
The film depicts the nostalgic feelings of the 30- to 40-year-old generation in South Korea, and uses interspersed narratives to review the youthful first love when they were young. The seemingly broken fragments completely piece together the truest appearance of love. When the time goes back to modern times, both Shengmin and Ruiying have grown up. They live in different environments and face different life stages, but their hearts are still throbbing with this first love, which appears many times in the film. The song "Etudes of Memory" released by "Exhibition" in 1994 not only runs through the entire film, but also aptly interprets that emotion.
