Love is always the eternal inspiration in movies. And through movies, many stories about fate & destiny are developed and thereby strengthen our trust that destiny does exist.
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There are some things that scientists can’t explain. And fate or destiny is among them. The idea of destiny is often used for finding love. It is about the inevitable fate between two persons that are destined to meet.
Though different films about destiny tell different stories, they share the same concept; that is, destiny is tied to time. There is a saying, “Man fears time; time fears the Pyramids”. Time must also fear the destiny of man.
1. Serendipity (2001)
Johnathan and Sara, by chance, find one another at Chrismas. Still, being suspicious of the feeling that develops quickly, the two decide to break up and await the answer of fate. They put their names and phone numbers out to the universe, her written in the front of a book, his written on the back of a $5 bill. If they are meant to be together, they will find the items and contact each other.
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Seven year later, it is revealed that the couple are getting married to other people. As their respective wedding dates approach, they find the items. Are they going to grasp this second chance for love or let is pass them by?
2. The Lake House (2006)
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This is a love story that disregards time and space. As a remake of the South Korean film Il Mare (2000), ‘The Lake House’ centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006. The two meet via letters left in the mailbox at the Lake House that they have both lived in at separate time points. It is destiny that brings them together, but to be together, they must race against time.
3. I Origins (2014)
I Origins is one of few films that deals with destiny and the after-life. The film suggests that people keep the memories of their past lives in their eyes. Wherever they are reborn and in whatever body, the eyes are the source that retains all the memories.
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To make the film more interesting, the romantic and ‘rebirth’ are intertwined. The story revolves around a scientist and a girl with very beautiful eyes. Though ‘I Origins’ doesn’t dig too much into destined love, its ending still leaves people asking“are we reincarnated? Can memories and love remain after reincarnation?”
4. Somewhere in Time (1980)
This is a popular American romantic science fiction drama set in in the 1980s. On May 19, 1972, Richard Collier, a college theatre student, is celebrating the debut of a play he has written. During the celebration, he is approaced by an elderly woman who places a pocket watch in his hands and pleads “Come back to me”.
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That woman turns out to be Elise McKenna. She is an actress that lived in the early 1900s. Being obsessed with her image, Richard decides to find her by traveling back to the past, and finally finds her after many obstacles.
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5. In Your Eyes
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For anyone who has ever wondered whether their ‘right one’ may be somewhere out there waiting for them, ‘In Your Eyes’ has the answer in the form of a supernatural soap opera. In the film, two complete strangers on opposite sides of the country discover that they can see and feel whatever the other is experiencing, which naturally makes them conclude that they are meant to each other.
