Heaven’s Postman.

Heaven’s Postman.


     It’s a Korean movie. This movie is about a guy, Jaejoon in comma; his spirit walked around and work as a postman that post letters from living persons to their deceased loved ones. I’ve watched this movie halfway before but didn’t finish it because of the crappy video quality that’s uploaded online. Recently, I decided to watch it again from the start until the end after being convinced by my friend to watch it. 


     This heaven’s postman wasn’t really a postman. He took all the letters from an old red mailbox in the middle of a wide green field. Instead of delivering them to the ones that meant to be, he read each one of the letters and made plans to make the living persons believed that those who were dead have read the letter, just to make the livings feel better. One day, he met this girl, Hana who just lost her boyfriend and she didn’t seem to accept the fate. He offered her to work with him. She didn’t believe that he’s not a human. She refused at first but then agreed to it.


     They worked together everyday reading letters and making plans to make it look real as if the dead have read those letters. Sometimes they made plans to solve the problems between the dead and the living, I mean they made it look like the problems are solved.
As each days passed, they got closer with each other and Hana started to forget about his dead boyfriend until one day. They were on their way to collect those letters from the mailbox and met a woman with her son who’s sending a letter to her husband. It happened that the woman was Hana’s dead boyfriend’s wife. Hana told Jaejoon about her story and he comforted her. She told him how frustrated she was and how she knew from the start that her deceased boyfriend never cared about her and she just stayed by his side. Then he asked her to tell him her story more and to stay by his side.


     They continued they job and life. They work together, had fun together; playing, eating and drinking. They started to develop feelings for each other and with that, Hana started to forget about his boyfriend. She soon started to realise that Jaejoon was slowly disappearing from her eyes. At times, she couldn’t see him although he’s there. She tried to deny all the thoughts that came through her mind and made herself believe that Jaejoon is a human and not something that’s similar to a ghost like what he had told her before on their first meet. 


     Finally, the day came; Jaejoon completely disappeared from her eyes. Before that, Jaejoon told her that he’s not a human and he could only be seen by persons who longed their deceased loved ones. She had forgotten about her ex-boyfriend completely and that explained why she couldn’t see Jaejoon anymore. He heart was broken into pieces as each of her memories with him being erased. All the pictures of her with him changed, she could only see herself in those photos. All those left were just memories in her heart.
Jaejoon leaved her a letter. He told her everything about his life and how he became the Heaven’s Postman. He was actually a young wealthy businessperson. He, as a hot-blooded young man, thought that life was a game after all. And one day, the life that he thought a game, came to a pause. He was involved in a road accident and lost his consciousness. He was in comma for weeks and almost lose his breathe. The doctors decided to just let him go but one day, he came alive again. That’s when he completely disappeared from Hana’s eyes and had completed his tasks given by the heaven to him. They gave him a chance to live and gave his life back. Before he continued his journey as a living person he asked them whether he will remember those times with Hana and they said that all those will remain as his dreams in his comma. When he asked about Hana’s memory, they didn’t give an answer for that.


     The story then continued showing Hana’s life. She was working at a company. She went to the post office to send something. There, the clumsy self of her made all the files that she was holding fell to the floor and someone came to help her. That person was Jaejoon. She couldn’t believe herself and said that the person was a ghost. But he proved that he’s not when he talked to someone at the post office. They both were trying to hold themselves from saying something to each other. Then, he walked away. It took her a few seconds before she finally realised that he’s Jaejoon. She went after him. He asked her whether they’ve met before. Then he answered himself and said he had met her before in his dreams. That scene looked like a typical guy trying to flirt using the old-fashioned style. However it was indeed different. They started replying each other with places and things they’ve met together from the red mailbox, the green field, the light house until they end at the coffee shop, which was the last place they met each other. They ended it with a hug in the loud and busy post office.


     While the credits of the movie were running at the side of the screen, the movie was fast-forwarded in a small box at the other side of the screen. It showed their lives with Hana narrating the timeline. She told about Jaejoon, the once businessman is now a real postman. He’s happy by delivering letters although he had to always resist himself from reading those letters. While she’s working as illustrator at the company earlier. The story ended with a scene of them in a bus holding hands. She’s still narrating and she said if there’s any guy that said he met you in his dreams, maybe he is your destiny of life. 
The scene that I love the most as well as the most touching scene in this movie was the scene that she ran to him and searched for him but she couldn’t find him. Then the grass in front of her sunk a little as if someone’s stepping on it; Jaejoon. It was just right in front of her. He was there but she couldn’t see him.


     Personally, I think this story could have two endings; the real ending in the movie and the one that I thought. For me, it’s still okay if he died in the comma because if he died, she’ll miss him so much and she could still see him that way and in the end, they can still be together in the after world. It’s not that I prefer it that way since the real ending was much more better. It’s just my thought about it.
Anyways, this movie is one of the amazing movies I’ve ever watch; brushing aside the fact that DBSK’s Jaejoong starring in it. It’s not good enough to be in my awesomest list but it’s still okay for me.


t/n : this was written in 2010.