You Are My Destiny (2020)

Insipida e piatta rivisitazione di una serie di successo

Adattamento non ben riuscito del memorabile "Fated to love you", drama coreano di una decina di anni fa.
La trama a grandi linee è la stessa, ma con quasi il doppio degli episodi (e la noia che, di conseguenza, incalza).
Recitazione appena sufficiente, sceneggiatura fiacca, scarsa capacità di emozionare. La severità di questo giudizio è probabilmente influenzata dal paragone con l'altro drama - paradossalmente ho preferito la protagonista di questo, rispetto all'altra che proprio non soffrivo - ma in "Fated to love you" la colonna portante era l'attore protagonista, Jang Hyuk, professionista poliedrico e originale, capace di dare vita a personaggi unici e indimenticabili, oltre a bucare lo schermo dal punto di vista delle emozioni.
Con alle spalle un predecessore di tale successo, il nuovo "You are my destiny" non può che apparire come un'insipida minestra riscaldata. Il consiglio quindi è: guardate la versione coreana e dimenticatevi di questa.

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Disgusting 3rd party and draggy ending

The last 10 episodes destroyed the show for me. What I hate most are 3rd parties who use underhanded methods to get what she wants. Fighting for love in the open or creating challenges for the leads - are acceptable to me and can actually be interesting to watch. But when underhanded means are used to deceive the leads and they don't even find out, thus creating a severe fracture in the relationship due to a fundamental misunderstanding (which cannot be resolved) - that is just pure disgusting and painful to watch.

In this case, a prenuptial agreement (for the benefit of the FL) was swapped by the pure evil and disgusting 3rd party, Anna with a divorce agreement - causing the FL to misunderstand the ML and break up with him, and separation for 3 whole years. During this time, Anna tried to get together with the ML, but it is so clear that the ML never loved her, yet she never felt any sense of guilt.

I only felt anger and disgust when in the 2nd/3rd last episode, the ML got together with Anna and the FL got together with Anna's brother. This kind of relationship is very disgusting because there is no love and happiness involved; and it only came about due to the thick-skinned Anna, without any conscience or sense of shame.

It was only in the last 30minutes of the last episode that Anna's brother realised what happened and told the truth to the ML. This ending to me is very rushed and unsatisfactory. I was looking forward to some good moments of the FL and ML together - and this is robbed away from me.

What makes it even worse is that this problem can actually be resolved with some proper communication. The FL's best friend is aware of the prenuptial agreement. She tried to explain but the FL cut her off. Or the ML and FL could properly talk it over - there was even a scene 3 years later where the ML tried to explain, but it is clear the FL wasn't listening properly and had no intention of trying to understand what was going on. Totally childish of the FL. Dragged on a conflict for 10 episodes that can be easily resolved in 2-3 episodes. 10 episodes of such push and pull is too draggy.

Terrible and disgusting ending.

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