O Vento Sopra (2019)

O vento pode soprar pra longe o que é leve, mas o que é amor de verdade, fica, mesmo invisível.

Esse dorama é um sussurro no peito. Calmo, mas devastador. Lento, mas certeiro. Conta a história de um homem que descobre estar com Alzheimer precoce e, pra proteger a esposa do sofrimento, decide se afastar… sem contar o motivo.

Do-hoon e Soo-jin formavam um casal apaixonado. Mas um dia, sem explicação, ele pede o divórcio. Soo-jin, ferida e confusa, segue com a vida... até que o destino (ou seria o vento?) sopra de novo.

Cinco anos depois, os dois se reencontram e, com esse reencontro, vem à tona a verdade dolorosa: Do-hoon não a deixou por falta de amor, mas porque foi diagnosticado com Alzheimer precoce e quis poupá-la da dor.

Agora, em meio à perda de memória, memórias que insistem em ficar e sentimentos que jamais foram embora, esse reencontro vira uma segunda chance, não só de amar, mas de aceitar que o amor também é lembrar… e deixar ir.

Uma história madura, profunda, que trata com delicadeza temas como memória, doença, dignidade, sacrifício e amor real. Atuação comovente de Kam Woo-sung, que entrega um personagem vulnerável e intenso. A trama vai além do drama médico: fala de escolhas, sacrifícios silenciosos e das formas mais profundas de amar. Não o amor de flores e jantares, mas o amor que cuida de longe, que protege mesmo quando dói, que se despede só pra garantir que o outro siga em paz.

A narrativa vai e volta no tempo, como o próprio vento, entre o que foi e o que ainda pode ser. Com atuações maduras e uma sensibilidade que beira o poético, O Vento Sopra nos lembra que a memória pode falhar, mas o que foi vivido com verdade... isso o tempo não apaga.

"Mesmo que eu me esqueça de tudo… quero que você se lembre que eu te amei."
— Do-hoon

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Years after the “Yes”-word, and yet a substantial love story, touching without being kitschy

"The Wind Blows" sounds quite inconspicuous, but it is not. It turns out to be a moving love story. Actually it is rom+/-com that starts exactly where other love stories end: with the ´yes´ word. The KDrama tells of what can happen when the butterflies (in the face of the new) are followed by ordinary years of shared, sometimes painful everyday life relationship... But that's not why love has to be gone missing. On the contrary... yet eventually, love might find it harder to take its space...

The title "The Wind Blows" refers specifically to the moment when the two protagonists first met many years ago. At that time the wind was blowing. What started then is not over yet. Figuratively, the wind is still blowing. However, the everyday challenges of aging have now added to their married life. The two must meet those challenges. It is rather common that one may be tempted here and there to make solitary decisions instead of communicating. One may have doubts if there still can be a way together. Every now and then it seems that such a common path is not (or no longer) possible. And then, maybe, one or the other might open up again.

"The Wind Blows" tells a serious and profound story about a love relationship that has grown out of the first romantic phases. Generally, this is less wanted on screen, as it inevitabely comes with problems, arguments and breakups. (Somehow that's in the nature of relationship - the constant rubbing against each other in a wide variety of ways actually leads to feeling/sensing yourself and the other person in the first place... it doesn't work without it. Does it?) In this KDrama, problems, arguments and breakups are all in, too. But so is love. (...as so often, although we might fail to notice in the midst of turmoil.)

I don't want to hide the fact that Alzheimer's disease is involved here as a stab in the back and at the same time a second chance. Against this background, the story manages to tell sensitively, empathetically and at times ruthlessly about the bumpy stretches of a patient love that has been and remains there over time - even if it is experienced differently over the course of the years, perhaps sometimes cannot be shared and also has changed its forms of expression over time.

The sensitive processing and the emotionally intense acting (great: Kam Woo-sung and Kim Ha-neul) are KDrama quality at its finest, which has once again proven itself to be just perfect for dealing with such a complex subject, which is difficult in several respects. A substantial story, touching without being kitschy.

(Well, I didn´t need the slightly shallow subplot and few unnecessarily humorous sequences here and there. Yet they obviously tried to loosen things up... well...)

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