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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Secret by Jay Chow

On his first day in college, inside an old music room, Jay met a mysterious classmate called Rain. Rain was playing a piece of music on the piano which Jay could not identify. And when he asked her for the name of the melody, she said it was a secret.

Indeed the movie revolves round this mysterious piano piece called Secret and how it binds Jay and Rain together.

As he spent more time with her, Jay found out that Rain has asthma and is frequently absent from class. But they still fell in love with each other. The old music room became the place of their rendezvous and Rain said that she felt sad that they are going to demolish this old campus building on their graduation day. As time passed by, Rain's asthma became worse and she had to stop school. One day Rain saw another female classmate kissing Jay and she became jealous. She stopped contacting Jay from then on. Come the much-awaited graduation day, Rain finally showed up and Jay was so happy to see her. But Rain saw a bracelet on Jay's wrist that was a gift from his female classmate. She became upset and left him again. Jay wanted to clear the misunderstanding, so he went to her house to look for her. But her mother told him that Rain has been missing. In her room, Jay found an old photograph of Rain with his father who is a music teacher in the university. How is Rain related to Jay's father? Will Jay and Rain end up together despite all the uncertainty? And how has the mysterious piano piece got to do with all these?

If this introduction interests you and you would like to catch the movie, STOP READING THIS POST. THE REST OF THE POST CONTAINS SPOILERS.

The story continues with Jay asking his classmates if they have seen Rain but surprisingly no one has ever seen her or know who she is. Jay soon recalled the times they were together and how Rain seemed invisible to everyone else except him. Jay then asked his father if he knew Rain. Jay's father told him that Rain was his student 20 years ago but she was schizophrenic. She told Jay's father that one day, when she was playing the piano in the music room, she found an old music score called Secret. And when she played the melody on the piano, she was transported to the future. She also said that she fell in love with a guy in the future but he broke her heart. She gave the music score to Jay's father and told him that she will not go to the future again. But soon Rain realised that no one believed her and that her mother has been spiking her food with medication from the psychiatrist. She became upset and transported herself to the future to meet Jay during his graduation day. Again she was disappointed by him and while she tried to return to her own time, she had a serious asthma attack and died in the music room. Upon discovering the truth, Jay immediately ran back to the old music room that was about to be demolished. It was at this time when Jay's father took out the old music score, saw Rain's entry about Jay and realised the truth. Jay managed to get into the music room and just as it was about to be demolished, he played the piece on the piano and was transported back to the past where Rain existed. He finally met Rain again and the ending scene was Jay together with Rain in her graduation photo of 1979.

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