The Lake House Isn't All That Fictional
Filed under: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
In the new film The Lake House, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock play residents of the same house, but in different years, who are able to correspond via time-traveling letters. Although the premise is pretty fantastic, the first response I get from people is not about the time displacement, but about the fact that the characters still practice the old-fashioned art of letter writing rather than email. After all, The Shop Around the Corner was already updated for the digital age as You've Got Mail. Now we get this film about physical, tree-wasting post?
Well, it turns out Reeves and Bullock can relate pretty well to their characters. They have been pen-pals, with the pen being literal, since they starred together in Speed twelve years ago. In fact Reeves doesn't even own a computer and avoids email as much as possible. This is Neo, for goodness sakes! Bullock defends him, though, saying that email is not as "special." She says, "I love keeping in contact with Keanu through letters because I can revisit our conversations whenever I like."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-21-2006 @ 9:34PM
Tom said...
I don't have a problem with a magical mailbox that links two people living two years apart, nope, the thing that I just find flat out impossible to believe is that Keanu Reeves can read and write.
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6-21-2006 @ 10:19PM
Alex said...
but, what happens if you go in to the mail box?
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6-22-2006 @ 2:22PM
The Jeremy said...
Will the mailbox be bigger on the inside than the outside?
Sorry...that would be like *Doctor Who*. Although it wouldn't be a first Keanu Reeves flick that borrowed from the Who mythos if that was a plot point.
Lesse'...
*Bill & Ted* travel in a time machine phone booth. Hmm...where'd they get that idea from, I wonder...
*The Matrix*. People fight villains inside a giant virtual reality computer system called "The Matrix". Hmm. I think that was in a 1976 Doctor Who episode entitled "The Deadly Assassin". Yup, sure was...the computer had the same name too.
Maybe Keanu wants to be cast as The Doctor next.
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6-22-2006 @ 2:22PM
bijou said...
I would ask for lotto tickets and stock reports, and technology. Man that box would make me ruler of the world
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6-23-2006 @ 12:46PM
The Jeremy said...
Bijou, no that would make you a more advanced version of Biff Tannen.
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7-02-2006 @ 11:58PM
pretty one said...
i think it is a very sweet movie..
i ♥ it..
and just bc keanu dosent like computer dosent make him a bad person a lot of ppl i know dont like computers..
they think that they are evil..
and i like the fact that sandra would rather write than email
it shows that she has a life
and doesnt like to be on the comp every minute of everyday
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