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A bittersweet remake with a lazy and predictable ending.
For me, one of the biggest problems is that they focused too much on the romance, when it should have been the backdrop, and the focus should have been on the suspense. Okay, it's a remake, the changes are acceptable, but it needs to make sense within the original story, because they completely ruined the quality of the script. A character overcomes the trauma quickly just because they got a boyfriend. Korea is calling viewers stupid because not even the greatest love in the world overcomes trauma, even with years of therapy.
And the killer???? My God, they changed the bartender and chose the most predictable character possible to be the killer, haha.
And I didn't find anything special in the couple's chemistry. Park Min-young's acting was apathetic, without any expression, forced crying scenes, and Wi Ha-joon managed to come across well, the only positive point.
A profound J-drama with melancholic themes of trauma, crime, and guilt, with a romantic backdrop that isn't the main focus, despite the original title being "Ice World." I already anticipated they would ruin the ending by changing the name to "Siren Kiss," since the original title is linked to it. It was swallowed up by a predictable and clichéd romantic happy ending – the famous expected script. They chose the worst possible way to end it. Why didn't they just remake a romantic drama?
It's literally a K-drama inspired by the J-drama, not a remake, as if the screenwriters took the theme of the original and discarded it.
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