Do You Like Brahms? (2020)

Para amantes de la música y las historias de amor clásicas

Los amantes de la música clásica y de las historias de amor sin estridencias ni grandes sobresaltos encontrarán en este drama todo lo que buscan. Es un drama maravilloso, elegante, íntimo con una muy buena historia pero sin prisas ni sentimientos exagerados. La historia se desarrolla siempre a buen ritmo y no pierde fuelle en ningún momento. Quizá los latinos nos exasperemos en ocasiones con los silencios, con las palabras que no se dicen en esta historia de amor, porque nosotros gritaríamos, exigiríamos, reclamaríamos más abiertamente si estuviéramos en la piel de los protagonistas, pero ellos no son así. Park Eun Bin en la piel de una tenaz estudiante de violín y Kim Min Jae en su papel de exitoso pianista hacen una interpretación magistral de dos personas de pocas palabras pero mucho mundo interior. La música lo envuelve todo, y acompaña nuestro viaje a través de 16 capítulos hasta su maravilloso y redondo final. A mi parecer merece mucha más puntuación, yo la he disfrutado mucho!!!

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The characters shine. The plot... not so much.

This drama’s rating is high purely because of the characters. Song Ah x Joon Young are two of the softest, politest, most introverted leads I’ve ever watched. I fell in love with them from the start and I never fell out despite my declining interest in the drama. PEB & KMJ play them to perfection.

The second leads are both great too. Hyeon Ho is easy to love - the smiling, puppy in love. Jung Kyung is more complex. Struggling with her fallen star & complicated feelings, she’s still clever and kind and I don’t care what anyone says, I loved her. I’ll be adding her to my pantheon of second female leads who deserved better. (It’s a really great club btw I’ll make a list of them all one day)

Cha Young In (the noona from the kyunghoo foundation) was also a quiet favourite of mine. Unlike the many immature & selfish professors from the university, she’s grown wise with time & dispenses advice and knowledge freely without judging or looking down on anyone. Everyone is lucky to have her as their senior in life tbh. I’d love an older female friend like her.

So yes. 6.5 stars purely because they all live bright in my heart and the first third or half was really good.

The plot lets it down. At some point past act 1 it becomes this endless slog of misery and miscommunication (from a couple that thrived on being open with one another no less!)

I didn’t mind it being slow because it felt like a healing drama and for a while it was. It soon devolved into a melodramatic mess however and the neat bow-wrapped ending isn’t enough to save it.

Just another drama of what-could-have been to join the many already littering the LOST POTENTIAL graveyard.

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