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The life lesson
whatever I thought of this story by listening to its name (HIGH SOCIETY) only was completely different. I thought it off as a mushy Romance, then I thought it of as revenge Romance, but then stopped thinking and just enjoyed itit kickstart nicely, all the characters were well portrayed and the story was intriguing.
The societal difference between the leads, the dreams, the hard work it was perfectly balanced in this drama with no overacting as in most of the other shows.
It was plain simple love story.
The character development of the rich kids and poor kids were well done. It had lots of positive vibe and less negativity. Each character grew with the episodes rather than crying on their fate. And each character had got what they wanted, giving a lesson YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD TO CHANGE YOUR DESTINY.
there where many other life lessons given by the elders to the main leads.
Every actor played their part nicely, I liked park hyung sik very much in this drama.
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Dont put it in plan to watch just watch it....
●This drama was so hyped that my twitter and IG feeds were full of it. So I just gave up on this drama and watched old drama. And also I don’t like to watch ongoing drama and it was a perfect decision, 18Again is so good that I wont have been able to wait for next episode. Its full of emotions, comedy and life values.●Plot View- you have read the synopsis or might have watched the movie seventeen again on which this drama is based upon. I too had watched it but I don’t remember it anyway, as we all know movies are short we enjoy them but cant really connect to them. Drama gives you time to get immersed in the story of Hong dae young and Jung da jung. The story is amazingly good dealing with parenthood at young age, divorce side effects to a woman, discrimination at work due to education and age, dreams at any age, friendship, sacrifices and forgiveness.
●Acting- amazing bunch of actors made this awesome story more awesome
•Kim Ha Neul as Jungdajung was a perfect choice. She is an amazing actress and she portrayed the divorced mother of teenage kids amazingly well. Her work environment and enthusiasm was great story.
•Yoon Sang Hoon as 37 yr old Hongdaeyoung was hard working father and husband but he was also an imperfect person. He gives up his dreams and admits he has done lots of mistakes.
•Lee Do Hyun as Hongdaeyoung/Gowooyoung was excellent. He just made the characters more standout, no wonder he won two new actors award for 18again. Giving out his wisdom to the kids in school, apparently shows how hongdaeyoung grew up as a kind person and helping out his family in small things which sometimes clicks the heart.
•Wi ha joon as yejihoon, portraying a young handsome baseball player easily could have given a second lead syndrome. But the writers didn’t put this awkwardness in the drama which is why I liked it more. Instead they focused on his relationship with niece which was very beautiful.
•Kim Kang-hyun as Go Deok-jin and Lee Mi-do as Choo Ae-rin, were great friends and good support to the leads. They had their own world yet they showed what true friends are.
•Hong si ah, hong si woo, ye ji ho, Goo ja sung, showed great potential not just with their visuals but also with stupendous acting in this drama. The entangled story of these kids was very nicely done. How they grew up with the burden of the society, bad family relations and their budding dreams. It was really heartwarming. These new age actors will surely make it big. No wonder hwang in yeop skyrocketed with his new drama true beauty. And yes am next watching True beauty for more Hwang In yeop .
●Music - BGM and Ost was so mesmerising. HELLO, ONE PERSON were my favourite ost. The other soundtracks are also worth listening and they make the drama more special.
●Rewatch - its worthy of getting rewatch not just for story or acting but for everything.
●Appreciation -
◇the amazing scenery in the background, the sunset when hongdaeyoung confesses, the umbrella walk on the rainy day,the anime interior and superhero parties of go deok jin, sakura flowers in the school, just set the mood right.
◇Raising kids never come with the handbook. When they were 18 they had kids and did silly mistakes while raising them that brought tears and smiles simultaneously.
◇Marriage is happiness and divorce is a shame, which only goes for woman is dealt amzingly well via workplace discrimination story.
◇The transitions were smoothly done for 18year old hongdaeyoung to 18 year old hong dae young
I felt empty during the last episode I started missing goowooyoung.
●Criticism- the transformation from 37yrar old to 18 year old was done but how, magic,lightening,basketball HOW??? The only thing i didn't like.
●Fav quotes-
◇No matter how hard life gets, never regret anything in life that made you smile -Jung da jung
◇Its sad that people think that my kids are my mistakes. I think they are my blessings - Jung da jung
◇Seeing our kids take the first step made me happier than when i won a basketball game - hong dae young
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Intense,emotional, crime thriller
•With each episodes there lots of questions aroused which kept me on toes to watch one more episode and hence I binged it.•Story- intense,emotional,crime thriller.I had like thousands of questions, as to how LJG changed his identity. When the employment gang appeared I thought of lots of possibilities, like drug racket, organ trafficking, human trafficking, slavery etc. Why wasn’t hyun-su punished for fake identity.The story was smooth and well scripted.
•Acting- LJG as do-hyun was a little lacking bland expressions. He was shown as antisocial personality disorder person but that was really not convincing, its was really confusing with his expressions. Overall his performance was good.
MoonChaeWon as cha-ji-won was good. I liked how persistent she was to solve a case plus save her family.
And from very start I disliked kim moo jin repoter, it seems as if he had a personal grudge and he purposely made do hyun so into a murderer.
Baek-eun-ha was a like a cherry of the cake, her appearance made the drama more lovable. Her relationship with her dad was really enjoyable.
•Music- FEEL YOU, played in the first episode immediately catches up the attention. PSYCHO and IN MY HEART is also my fav osts, they served as beautiful BGM perfectly.
•Rewatch- am not a crime thriller fan, and when you know who is real murderer you most probably lose interest. so my rewatch value would be low.
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Because there were 4tales of only 20minutes it's difficult to connect to the story. stories are like short stories I used to read in my school days, it is not engaging but watchable.
But the depth of IU’s acting is surreal. She looks gorgeous in every role. She has great acting skills portraying different kinds of aesthetics and living up to it.
I hated her in the first story.
I was scared of her in the second story.
I admired her in the third story.
I liked her in the fourth story.
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enjoyable
●HOW I CAME TO ITI had thoughts of watching this drama after coming across a few of its hilarious clips. And yeah it entertains to the fullest possible way despite having flaws in the story.
●FIRST IMPRESSION
The story is simply cute and suspenseful, but the uncovering of suspense took a really long time. This drama could have been wrapped in 18 episodes if they didn’t go into the identity crisis of Park Ha.
●PLOT VIEW
The character doing their historic stuff and adjusting to the modern era was hilarious but genuine. the transportation concept wasn’t cleared as in firstly the characters made us believe that rooftop is the reason but at the end that was just for nothing. And they were running on during the historic period but in the present time, they were in Lotus position as if meditating.
●ACTING/CAST
All the characters were amazing, vibing the historic time with their gestures, costumes, and body language. I personally enjoyed Choi Woo Shik as Do Chi San, he had the charm to crack jokes with his pity side.
FL Han Ji Min as Park Ha was a little immature with the expressions but had good chemistry with Park Yoo Chan as Lee Kak.
Negative characters are made to be hated. So there it was but the grandmother took every chance to fall whenever there is a tense situation, the most annoying character.
●MUSIC
it was cool and refreshing, I enjoyed the flute BGM and even searched it. It had a rhythmic tone making my feet move to their tune.
●REWATCH
I would like to watch the comical scenes rather than the whole drama.
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FAMILY MOVIE
●This body-swap drama was oddly hilarious and touching concurrently. With the daughter growing up, experiencing her teenage growth, she has all her insecurities with a new crush and obvious study problem because she is an average student. The father is trying ways to be there for her and eventually, the body swap brings them their problems and closer.The father understands her daughter's feelings more deeply and even paves way for her to be with one she has a crush on. He also takes her dream of pursuing music seriously. The daughter also understands her father that how hard he works to save every penny.
●The concept is heavy, but the writers managed to keep it light with the comic scenes fairly well. And also the actors who put all the effort into playing roles of the opposite gender. the movie could have gone wrong, cause there are so many dramas and movies of the same concept which tend to bore you at some point. the comedy and drama is well balanced
●Ye Je Moon is an ace artist, he just blended in the character of a teen daughter perfectly. Jung So Min is very cool playing the role of daddy, Her body language and speech ability was fine. They would have worked hard that if the daddy was playing the role of what his reactions could be and they taking those same reactions in his acting. similarly for Jung So MIn also she would have taken a whole daddy speaking ability from Ye Je Moon and acted like him.
●I liked this movie and would rewatch it for a light mood.
It's a great family movie, which you can watch with your whole family and enjoy.
●Lastly, it also teaches when you are not in other shoes you don’t know their problems. This movie specifically shows what it is to walk in a daughter's shoes or the shoes of a dad. the end credit is touching it is really
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Watch It
●With the very first opening scene a student is standing on the Cliff of the school building. Other students gather around at the Crime scene talking that she was bullied. (Lee Chung Mi) as Hana hears this. her Parents fight everyday and has sleeping issues, she is approached by some senior girls and get Bullies badly. she is then appriached homeroom teacher tries to help him.●The story is nothing new but dealt in very delicate way.as the Title suggest compassion, this movie teaches compassion. hana is troubled because she have problematic parents, few friends with perfect image of top student and that's why she becomes a perfect target of bullies, because she can't tell anyone. she is afraid of her image being ruined.
Even the teachers are unable to help, which is the most unsatisfactory part of the movie.
●the climax though gives a chilling with a compassionate feel, the end was not clear. we all want to see the bullies being punished not just get away because they are minors or something shit like that.
●Jung Min Sung as Homeroom teacher Kim Sang Tae is the next door teacher who is afraid to lose anymore students so he keeps close eyes on his students who are vulnerable. he just blended in the character.
●A good movie with great lesson
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Not a charming girl at all
•who the hell titled this movie, its absolute nonsense. instead of charming she should be THE SLY FOX, The FL is very sly like a fox. First she accuses the ML as pervert, then she gets on his reserved taxi, uses him to enter the auction and later on uses him for paying debt. She is typical gold digger type of girl, while later on it movie, she is working for ML but the slyness in her remains. As we all know first impression is the best impression and until the end she seemed cunning and greedy.•ML looked a bit like Zhang Han. please anyone who likes Zhang Han dont get offended, I just said in terms of similar facial structure. He is very average in acting, he needs to take acting lessons.
•this movie script is awful with more addition to dreadful acting. the production quality was not good. there was enormous white light with too much of flashy glittery clothes. both the FL and the FL costumes were of really low quality. they were rich, wh spent millions on wine and then they wear such costumes. the stylist should have done a better job.
•Music was "lifes favorite" by chen yibo which was also in the previous movies of this series, its same so am really not into it.
•I wont recommend watching this movie due to bad acting, and its actually frustrating at times. Its a waste of time, energy, data and electricity.
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Good story, Ending doesn't disappoint.
●This would have been my very first lakron, but I didn’t find it interesting at that time. I wanted to give a try but forgot its name so didn’t search it. But I came across it once again thanks to MDL feeds and lakroninan mate SHINO. I watched this with zero expectation but the story is thrilling and exciting.●Story- whoever wrote the synopsis its incorrect.
After the grandmother death Duenpattra, comes to live at grandmother house. She has a strong feeling that she was murdered, but the case is shut down by powerful people. A newly appointed police officer gets a crush on her, and seeing her living alone he starts to help her. Investigate the case again.Duenpattra sees a man in mirror, wearing traditional clothes who is a from other universe named Uttarakuru. He keeps an eye to her house as it has a secret to his world, which is being protected by duenpattara ancestors. Few people know the secret and they want the house so he cross-over to help her and in process falls in love with her.
As the story unfolds little by little we see the evilness and greed of human. As hem hiran crosses the world and goes to Jambudivipa his process of becoming a true human being gives me laughter.
●Acting- sean as hem-hiran, was a good pick. He played his role fairly. His fighting sequence were perfect.He is unable to determine the thoughts of humans which was done nicely and gave depth to the story.
▪︎Pim as duenpattra was good. I felt confused when for her character, she tries hard to survive as there are all enemies surrounding her. She was single punched many times by the enemies and at that time her. the chemistry and romance of hem and duen was amazing.
expression I couldn’t connect. It seemed flawed.
▪︎Dee as pimdara [duenpattra mother]. she is the only character which gave me smiles with her screen presence. Her positive energy was amazing.
●Music- as we all know the lyrics translation is so good of thai dramas but I didn’t find any in my videos. But music and BGM were amazing.
●Rewatch- as I know all the secrets, it wouldnt be interesting as the first time. So NO. This drama has lots of villain so I wont prefer rewatching it.
●Criticism- The bad CGI, this may have been the reason why I didn’t watch it earlier. The CGI effects sucks, the flowers,walls, etc. The flower when its single in the room then only it looks pretty
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Cinderella in 90's
•Story-It was makeover of cindrella story into a thai drama with more better version,with the poor girl adopted in a good family with good siblings and annoying cousin. A prince charming where whole town women are crazy for his good looks,which sometimes doesnt made sense. Ending was ok but a bit disappointing i expected more, for the supporting characters too. Ending was rushed annoyingly.
•Acting- it was average for me doesnt really clicked, maybe because I didn’t clicked with the storyline. Supporting character were either bound to make them as couple or were to break them as couple.
Yaya as Pum Most decent girl, with all the good qualities without a flaw, but why does she give in with neung when he forced kissed her.
James as Neung was presented as rich in demand,foreign returned eligible guy of marriageable age. His acting was just average.
And why does there are such people who cling to other just because they love them, I mean chai likes pum but pum did she ever like him,just so clingy.last two epi were full of laughter.
•Music-its ok
•Rewatch-no
•Note-only good thing was its background of late 90’s and handwritten letter.
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A quality movie with a message
I wanted to binge something light, so chose this as a dose of laughter.Before reading the synopsis I was thinking that humans are trapped and animals were visiting the zoo to see them.
Humans dressed up as animals was a quirky story. There wasn't a dull moment, I kept laughing all the way. the actors tried their best to portray the animals. lion looked as if posing for the photo. polar bear drinking cola was funny.
well synopsis is very well written, it gives you half of the story. And the other half IMO is a message to all humans to not do mean stuff against animals. Do animals really wanna stay at the zoo and be an entertainment piece? Yeah, they cannot think but when they get love and care they stay with humans. Please respect animals.
thinking beyond the movie humans were too mean and threw stuff at animals. The kids throwing colas for the bear 2 drink why show bad advertisements 2 make people believe unreal stuff? this was just a movie but in real-world many animals are abused every day. If you can't help them, don't abuse them.
The Polar Bear clearly was unhappy in that cage but due to the girl selfishness, she held onto him but when she realized to let go she saw that the bear remembered her.
Also, the corporate people who try to destroy the green habitat and create concrete jungles are the worst. In the name of development, they have grown blind and keep on destroying the environment.
My fav animal was the lion in that sitting position was just marvelous. i enjoyed the movie.
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The setting Gwanglim Mansion was nice. The building was the same so there was no difference in the direction of each story. Had the same angles of the doors and corridors. The stories intersected with other stories in some scenes but show different perspectives of each story. also shows that all these happened at the same time.
It builds up an average eerie atmosphere but it lacks a finishing touch for most of the chapters. A couple of the chapters are interesting. Not particularly scary.
The actors performances are solid but we are seeing the story through Ji-Woo's perspective, who remains off-screen most of the time and is turn off. We just see strangers dying in the mansion in various ways which aint similar. Which have become stories told by the narrator.
Scary Meter
Room 504 (The writer) - Not scary 7/10
Room 907 ( The Pharmacist) - Very scary 9/10
Room 708 (The Salesman) - Mild 8/10
Room 604 (The Student) - Average 7.5/10
Room 1504 (The Caretaker) - Average 7.5/10
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Entertaining
LIKED- It is based on a true story but the events were dramatized nicely
- The lead actors performances are decent
- The screenplay is fast-paced, and gripping until the end. The mixture of betrayals and partnership was thrilling.
- The action sequences have been shot and executed quite well.
- The film's end is quite an unexpected turn.
DISLIKED
- most of the action sequence happens during the night, which gives crime a dark thriller, but the fight in dark is not my type.
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REWATCH: Low, cause am not a fan of action crime
The Gangster, the Cop, and the Devil is an entertaining and decently made crime action film that is worth and learn to be safe and alert at all times.
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Nice but once a watch
I have watched a few movies with the same concept, finding an old letter and trying to search for its recipient or sender, eventually uncovering something extraordinary about them. And the people who search get motivated by how they truly old generation loved.I do like the concept of the movie, but the editing of the movie just ruins everything. While Jin-tian is talking to Ze-Yang the scene jumps to old times, but everything looked the same whether past or present so I got confused. The old couple story jumps in between without any screen cut or context, they don’t even mention the year. The back and forth between past and present is like spilled coffee all over the place
I felt that the old couple's story had more impact cause they had a more emotional connection.
Present-day JinTian and ZeYang's story was bland and forced with so many emotional traumas as if they were some sinners. if one of them could have acted maturely and adult it would have changed the impact of the movie. They had chemistry but their visuals are too nice that it covered their flawed acting, they could have done better.
The actors who played Lanxin and Joseph Novak were amazing, others were very mediocre honestly maybe because they are newbies.
The scene where Novak and JinTian see each other was very fine and chilling. The ending is satisfying though.
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if you ever come across this please don’t skip it and just watch.
God has sent everyone in pairs, it is just that you haven't found your match yet and this story is exactly that. Two visually challenged people meet at a photography club, fighting their own demons. They both are sensitive to receiving help from others.Being an observer I can say they might feel a bit defensive as to many people are not helpful when in need. Also, those helping out might be dangerous too. But there are good people too who genuinely help people. but don't judge others who don't want to receive help, respect them. we don't know what they have gone through.
we also see many other characters and how they speak up about their life positively. It brings joy to see that this world has hope in various ways.
Watching this 30min movie gives a calm relaxing feeling just like watching a sunset on the beach. It also motivates me to help others who are deprived in some way. God has given me a healthy body and I should be grateful to for it.
Han Ji Min acted with her eyes and its brilliant.
Park Hyung Sik is excellent too spreading his charms.
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