Just like

Melany 2021-12-12 08:01:14


A woman who has no personal life other than work. The hospital is her battlefield, her paradise, everything she has. In contrast to her lonely life, she has nothing to call her life of life. The hospital is her paradise—Just like heaven.
A bachelor with a dead wife, looking for a new apartment just to bury himself in a comfortable sofa and drink cans after cans of beer. Looking at the old video, he can paralyze himself in his thoughts and it is his heaven-Just like heaven.
These two people were supposed to go on a blind date. Or they are destined to have a blind date, but a car accident makes the way they meet is a little strange.
Elizabeth, who had been in a car accident, was in a coma in the hospital, but her soul floated in front of Mike from time to time after he moved into the apartment, as if by fate.
He had no choice but to find someone back to "exorcise ghosts", but he evolved to help her find herself.
In the hospital, he held the hand of Elizabeth who was sleeping on the bed and would not croak in people's ears, and she looked at her palm in surprise. Even if it is just a touch of soul that can be penetrated, he can still feel his temperature.
She decided to stay in the hospital with her body, while he went home alone. In the ward, parting seemed reluctant to leave.
He opened the refrigerator, it turned out to be a beer. But after a brief hesitation, the camera switched to a scene of sizzling fried eggs.
After a while, he was sitting alone at the square dining table, and neon lights flashed outside the window behind him.
He picked up the cup to drink water, and stopped suddenly when he was about to put it down. There was no voice-over. He just stopped for a moment, looked at the tabletop under the cup, then got up, took a coaster and put it down.
When the soul of Elizabeth, whom he intimately called Liz, first met Mike, it was like a shrew yelling at him why he put the cup directly on the table instead of using a coaster.
As for him at the dinner table, his unannotated movements brought out a bit of nostalgia, revealing a scent of love that can be smelled.
It's always like this, this movie is always like this. I just noticed that there was a touch in the lens, but it disappeared in the next second. That kind of touch can never linger forever, giving you an enjoyable completeness.
Especially at the end. Perhaps it was to behave differently, so she robbed Elizabeth's memory abruptly after waking up. She looked at him as if she was looking at a stranger, but she didn't remember him at all. If, it ends like this, if they become strangers again, or can become another classic. Reality of helplessness can best seduce people's obsessive mindset, right? If the loneliness in the crowd is one of the themes or themes to be written in this film, then ending with reality in a fairy tale should be a more moving ending.
And it still carries the myth to the end-a handshake evokes all memories. Hugs, kisses, just like this announcing the end of the film. It can only be said to be a story, a story that can be entertained but cannot be remembered.

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Extended Reading
  • Jamir 2022-04-23 07:02:16

    Destined to meet, there is no escape

  • Brandt 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    2008.8.23 wonderful movie

Just Like Heaven quotes

  • Elizabeth Masterson: [after remembering that she was a doctor] I may have been a lonely home-wrecking whore, but I saved lives!

  • Jack Houriskey: God made alcohol as a social lubricant. To make men brave, and to make women loose.