[/caption]Ever since I got my copy of Jay Chou’s movie Secret (2007) via Yesasia, I have watched it four times and still hunger for more. I have invited the preteen audience (my son and my cousin), a young adult (my sister), my best friend (an up and coming lawyer) and my mom.
The younger viewers highly enjoyed it. My sister said “’twas okay.” My best friend thought it was good with some forgivable loopholes. And my mom, that’s another story.
If anything, the movie Secret is too significant to be ignored. The movie launched an animated discussion on the movie as most movies on time travel do. Jay Chou’s obra maestra was deftly crafted that it had two twists that were indeed surprising.
My mom watched it after I had seen the movie four times. She was attracted to the idea that the characters, Jay and Rain, attended a music school. I excitedly awaited her verdict.
After watching she said in her typical lecturing fashion, that the major flaw of the movie was that the seed was not planted in the begining of the movie. By seed, she means the idea that the story is about time travel. She said that the scene sequences leading to suspense of Rain’s character broke the train of thought from cheesy, cutesy to suspense to eventually the real frame of the movie’s thought (which is time travel). She further said that in the movie making business (and I surmise, in the novel writing as well), the formula of such art should be that a premise must be given in the beginning. But she did end our conversation saying that Jay Chou’s piano scenes were very good (which was an unanimous vote).
In my head, I argued against my mom’s point of view thinking that the twists and turns of the movie were what made me fall in love with the movie. To rebut my mom’s argument that a premise should have been made, the premise was the title itself.
My best friend and I had a mini-discussion on it as well. Our conversation revolved around the process of Rain’s and Jay’s time travel. One question she posed stuck: “If Jay was the only one who was able to see Rain when she went to the future, would Rain be the only one who would see Jay in the past?”
Good question.
As for my sister, she keeps mum about how my love for Asian dramas is overboard.
Click here for a comprehensive discussion on Secret.
All in all, Secret That Cannot be Told is indeed a masterpiece – too significant to be ignored.
It is a worthy addition to my other time travel favorites: Somewhere In Time, Lake House, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
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