Love, Divided

This was a pretty fun movie to watch, even though the dialogue was nothing original. The main guy was pretty handsome and that kept me watching, because I thought, hm maybe he'll take his shirt off at some point. He did for a moment actually, but we could barely see anything - they had framed him above nipple-level even. Then I googled his name also to find any shirtless pictures, but nothing came up. This is very unusual for young, attractive actors like him so it makes me think that maybe the body isn't that great, if everyone's hiding it. Anyway, like I said, good movie easy enough and entertaining for a lazy Saturday afternoon. One improvement I could make is in the scene near the end where they break the wall down (literally) and get to see each other for the first time, right before the big face reveal, they should have started with a little glory hole action. Just my thought for a little improvement, you may not agree.

8.0 stars. A man and woman are neighbors and soon discover they can hear each other through the wall that separates their apartments. It's a challenge at first, they don't get along at all. As time goes by, they become friends, and maybe more than friends...but they've never met face to face. Weeks pass as they continue their relationship this way. Yet another outlier for me. All the reviews are showing thumbs mostly down as far as I can tell. Maybe this movie doesn't float the boat for the majority, but I was absolutely enthralled. The dubbing is done to near perfection. The voices used are really good and fit the personalities of the players to a tee. The lead male is good at his role as a shut-in hermit type who has been that way since his fiance died a few years ago. The lead female's performance is equally as good, portraying a woman struggling with confidence issues and trying to get her life in order. She's an amazing pianist, and he's a toy inventor. The music is magnificent, so watch this just for that alone. I don't agree with the opinion that the performances misfire. Quite the opposite. Maybe the dubbing makes it better? I don't know, but I really like all the actors a lot. I can't figure out what makes this such an entertaining and heartfelt movie for me, but it is what it is. I enjoyed it.

I stumbled upon the original French Version some years ago and despite its silly premise I found the chemistry and film a delightful watch. Cut to 2024 seeing a new version on Netflix I was interested... This film remake is missing the magic of the first one which is odd because it's mostly the same. It's just is very lacking. This version offered nothing new which what's the point of making the exact same movie again with in my opinion actors who just didn't have the same chemistry. Really if this film looks interesting to you just find the French version it's so much better. I would have people to see this version first and miss out.

In this film Aitana plays a girl called Valentina who thinks she's found a nice apartment to move into, but she soon finds out that she can hear everything her neighbor (David - Gullar Fernando) does in his apartment because the walls are very thin. The film starts off funny because David wants complete silence for his scientific work but Valentina can't provide because she is trying to beat professional pianist, so they start trying to make each other move out by creating as much noiseas possible. But this joke ends a bit stupidly when Valentina "ups her game" by just doing something small that's not really funny and probably wouldn't have bothered most people. This joke lasts about 25 minutes and then are still some other jokes and they made me chuckle but not laugh out loud. Another part that I found quite funny is when Valentina and David start to get to know each other but they decide that they shouldn't meet and should just get to know each other through the thin walls. So they both try cook lasagna and David's turns out perfectly but Valentina's keeps getting worse and worse. But overall this film has too much romance and not enough comedy so I probably won't watch it again. And even some of the romantic parts look silly, for example towards the end of the film, David and Valentina have a fight and David does something romantic to win her back but it just came across as more stupid than romantic. Although it might still be a fun movie to watch on a date night.