There's something pure and undemanding about this film that makes it re-watchable. It's not the uniqueness of the characters or their chemistry, because-- to many people-- this is a familiar story. The idiosyncratic and awkward compatibility that the two characters shared reminds us of that person and those moments that are so exceptional and genuine that it cannot be relived.

Even then, the film doesn't stutter in showing the hasher realities of LDR that many fear. Those pieces of romance in the past aren't always enough to keep the feelings consistent. If there's anything brutal about the film, it's the emotional collateral that Simon and Samantha represented. Loneliness is an unforgiving and insatiable vice. Instant replacements are more appealing than 'patience.'

But that precise hurdle-- being able to chose the meaningful over the convenient-- is the film's final word. Jacob and Anna, exhausted from or maybe even doubtful of reaching the end of the tunnel, look back at the beginning: what they had and lost, and maybe could have again (but only maybe).

Sometimes it takes that kind of faith.

This is a film to watch when he's sleeping in the other side of the world and you're missing the sound of his breathing.