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I'd encourage you to give it a chance. It has a great pace, where things don't drag and the episode flies by. It's a perfect show for binge-watching as well.

I'm watching that one as well. It's so much fun so far!

Hahaha that's why I joked that I should include a warning: "Read at your own risk. Once you know what to look for, you will turn into an active viewer. You won't be able not to see this cues".

Hopefully the new information will make your viewing experience even more interesting. The motif series will have a similar angle, where you will start to notice the incorporation of these themes in K-dramas as well as their meaning. :)

Thank you, @Lua! The reason behind using so many dramas as example is precisely to increase the possibility that anyone reading will find at least one drama familiar. Of course, it also helps to showcase how different dramas still may use similar visuals either in the same way or in the opposite way. Glad you enjoyed it :)

I agree, @Yuanwei! These cues, for example, were prevalent in Netflix's Umbrella Academy. But Korean dramas seem to use them a lot more, so it was the overusing of them and repetition that made them stand out.

In Legend of Fu Yao, despite how long that was, I didn't see the same ratio as your average 16 episode K-Drama (just take Heachi, for example. Perhaps 3/5 scenes will incorporate a Dutch angle).

Perhaps because Legend of Fu Yao that drama had usually busier backgrounds (gorgeous ones!) and it was harder to incorporate dividing lines.

Which is the most prevalent technique in Chinese dramas that you've seen?

The currently airing drama "Love in Sadness" comes to mind in regards to calling an "obsession" what it is, which is: threatening. The FL tries to get away from a controlling, overbearing, abusive husband who's obsessed with her. Yet, even though the drama showcases how the FL suffers from PTSD, you'll still read comments of people "shipping" her with her husband... regardless of the fact that he's the antagonist of the show. It's insane.

However, I would still recommend the show because it's very interesting so far.

Unfortunately yeah. That's why if a criminal is handsome, people "can't believe" he's bad. It's amazing, lol. Looks have nothing to do with whether one person is bad or not, after all!

He was indeed. I finished it just to see how it would play out, but I was baffled at how that was portrayed as "romantic". Ironically, the actor's newest drama "I Picked up a Celebrity on the Road" involves a romance that starts as "Stockholm Syndrome". But what makes it fun, is that the drama seems to poke fun at that and milks it. It isn't really portrayed as romance, but rather as something really strange.

I wonder if people don't talk about Noble, My Love because it wasn't as popular? I only watched it because it was on Netflix, tbh. And I finished it just for completition's sake.

Ditto!

I haven't heard of this movie, but I'll definitely add it to my PTWL. It's this one, correct: https://kisskh.at/10923-the-wailing?

On the note of recommending, if you're open to international films, Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" is AMAZING. It's one of my all time favorite movies. It's a dark fantasy story about a young girl living in Spain during General Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime. The story follows a young girl who --terrified by the humans around her-- finds refuge with literal monsters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%27s_Labyrinth

Oh, that's good to know! I probably will check it out after I write the article, since I want to interpret it myself first.

If I read other people's thoughts & comments, I might stop looking for things myself. Or rather, I'll get my own interpretation "contaminated" in a way. "Skewed or altered" might be a better word because I don't mean it in a hostile way, just that it would almost feel like I'm "cheating" and simply writing other's interpretations.

One of the cool things is when interpretations differ, so I always look forward to the comments on my articles precisely because another view might expand my own. But before that can happen, I need to establish my own view. Does that make sense?

Thank you very much, @silent_whispers! I'm glad you enjoyed the end of the series! <3

Thank you so much for finishing the series! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully you'll find the next series (motifs) just as interesting! I've been slowly gathering examples, so like with this series, I'll use various shows for each point. ;)

Thank you again for also reading this part, @-executedtoperfection-! I agree this one has a lot of uses and you'll start noticing it everywhere. It's the most widely used regardless of country, I'd say.

Thank you again for also reading the second part! I agree, K-dramas tend to have a cinematography that's engaging and relies a lot in understanding the visuals to get the subtext. Glad you enjoyed this part :).

PS: I love your user name and avatar (that's one of the cutest scenes from Strong Woman!)!

Thank you very much for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D

Agreed! I'm also hoping that they'll continue the romance subplot because it's cute. I also felt like it was out of character for someone so work-oriented as Yeo Ji to simply vanish. Especially when the ML was in a difficult situation. Hopefully they'll properly explain her absence. Maybe even add some "flashbacks" to what she was doing while the ML and the rest were doing their thing.

I'm actually curious myself about that, which is why I've added a bunch of Chinese shows (which people have recommended) to my PTWL. As it stands, I've seen some Chinese movies but only one Chinese drama (Legend of Fu Yao). That one showed that the Dutch Angle was prevalent. At times they incorporated the grouping/dividing like in the example I showed here. But except for that example, there were many times I wasn't sure if the division was intentional, so I would need to see more before making the call. Same with boxing. It wasn't as prevalent at least in that show.

Thank you, @Kyle! Indeed, I've read your article, which is why I kept veering away from doing one for Sky Castle. After all, I'd be doing a similar thing. But since I kept being asked anyways, I yielded. I am still planning to link your article from mine, just so people who enjoyed the show and might've missed your article can also read it.

I'm only at episode 2 so far and... wow, there's a lot! Thankfully, the general narrative and concept are very clear, so I'm going to tackle it more as a whole rather than it's parts (like I did with Come and Hug Me).