Journal#2 Movie "Postcards"

posted on Feb 23, 06

This film showed me the interesting way of communication, and how the relationship changes towards their life.

Although this couple was living far from each other, space between them is become closer by exchanging postcards.

When each of them are reading the postcards, one's imagination fly to another's life, and they shared one's experience with the partner. That is because they tell every details of their life and both of them wants to share the experience with partner. Love made them to do that. Exchanging postcards was their evidence of love.

However, according to their emotion becomeing separate, they did not let partners to share the experience. The topic they wrote became general like “How is your mother”. At this point, postcards meant just like a role-call in class. They were just checking partner’s existence.

Then they finally they stopped to sending cards and broken up the relationship.

I think this kind of relationship never happens in modern days. Now we have cell phone and e-mail.

For the people in postcard age, ending of exchanging cards might mean that they will lose the relationship forever. Once they lost one’s address, they cannot send the card anymore. It means they cannot share the experience with the person, and they cannot check existence of the person.

Nowadays things have changed. Everyone can have communication network through the cell phone. Thus, we do not really need to know address, and it is not serious problems to lose one’s address. Even we lost one’s email address and telephone numbers, we can find that through the network.

People in modern age are living in network. We have various accesses to many people. The network makes the relationship stronger, and communication became easier; but we also cannot escape from the net.
People in postcard age were living in line. This was one-to-one access. Thus, once they cut off the line, there are no ways to keep relationship with the person.