One thing I always do after watching a drama is researching the audiences' reactions, review, viewpoints, etc.…
1. Zhuang Guo Dong - It was a passionate first love and we (the audience) felt their strong feelings and emotion through the screen. While Rose was young, naive, impulsive, she still communicated what she thought and felt to ZGD. Maybe her reactions were extreme in each hurdles, but after calming down she used to accept the reality and worked for a solution with ZGD. It was evident that ZGD 's past affects his actions. His obsession with career, his running away during Rose's outburst, etc. added to his part of not communicating properly. He loved Rose, he put effort in their long distance relationship, but what he forgot was to think by putting himself in Rose's shoes. When Rose visited him in Paris, she felt neglected by him, she felt that her opinions about her life and career were not respected or important to ZGD. So how much more should Rose compromise? Agreeing to leave her life in China for an unknown future in France? Holding herself back? ZGD compromised, but it was all after he lost Rose.
2. Fang Xie Wen- UFFF... If someone says that Rose didn't compromise in her marriage, I am very worried about the types of values you belief in. Rose almost lost herself in this marriage. She gave years of her life accepting the excuses FXW gave to stop her from growing. Their marriage was bound to fall apart. Imagine living a life where you will be questioned for doing your nails. FXW was a creepy, obsessive, misogynistic husband, a result of his strong inferiority complex. He bound Rose to shackles, cut off her wings (especially by making her financially dependent on him). Rose had nothing more to compromise. What more could she have done?
One thing I always do after watching a drama is researching the audiences' reactions, review, viewpoints, etc. from a variety of sites. After finishing 'The Tale of Rose', I have noticed a type of opinion stating that "the men in Rose's life were open to compromise, but Rose never compromised".
I think people don't understand that Eugene is actually way older than Ae Shin. He was already 9 years old when Kim Hui Seong was born and pretty much a teenager or more when Ae Shin was born. Only Ae Shin and Gu Dong Mae had four or five years gap between them. In other words, the casting was perfect.
If I put myself in the FL's shoes, this is what I see the ML as...
1. I find my colleagues back biting me and I find the ML within them who doesn't speak up for me.
2. I find the ML silent in the restaurant when the seniors are making me uncomfortable by crossing personal boundaries. (How'd I know that his friend stopped him???)
3. And then I'd find that same ML 'who was silent' following me to ask me whether I was okay or not while knowing I wasn't.
4. I'd notice small hints that he also mind my social status. Especially when I'm already feeling inferior to others, I find him backing away from our date across the road.
5. I ask him to be honest but he keeps lying to make himself look blameless.
I think they are indicating that the ML hesitated to join the date across the restaurant and the FL saw that. That's why she asked him what he was apologizing for in Ep2.
I also hate how the FL and SML are treated by the office workers, clearly dividing them by class...
Why did Thannam have to apologize to anyone (except Tonmai) for her choice? If Thannam hadn't chosen to commit suicide that night, would anything have changed around her the way things did after she died? Tee would have continued to treat her the same way he did before she died, Thannam would still have felt like an outsider in her father's home, and she would still be alone. We've seen that there were moments in her life when she felt lonely, with no one by her side, no one to reach out to... How could it have been her fault that she craved warmth and love 17 years ago? Why did she have to apologize to everyone when it should have been them who apologized to her for not being there for her? People realized and felt guilty after she died, and things changed. Who could blame a young girl who just wanted to feel warm, and the water that night was warm to her? She didn't owe an apology to those who had failed her.
It was a passionate first love and we (the audience) felt their strong feelings and emotion through the screen. While Rose was young, naive, impulsive, she still communicated what she thought and felt to ZGD. Maybe her reactions were extreme in each hurdles, but after calming down she used to accept the reality and worked for a solution with ZGD.
It was evident that ZGD 's past affects his actions. His obsession with career, his running away during Rose's outburst, etc. added to his part of not communicating properly. He loved Rose, he put effort in their long distance relationship, but what he forgot was to think by putting himself in Rose's shoes. When Rose visited him in Paris, she felt neglected by him, she felt that her opinions about her life and career were not respected or important to ZGD.
So how much more should Rose compromise? Agreeing to leave her life in China for an unknown future in France? Holding herself back? ZGD compromised, but it was all after he lost Rose.
2. Fang Xie Wen-
UFFF... If someone says that Rose didn't compromise in her marriage, I am very worried about the types of values you belief in. Rose almost lost herself in this marriage. She gave years of her life accepting the excuses FXW gave to stop her from growing. Their marriage was bound to fall apart. Imagine living a life where you will be questioned for doing your nails. FXW was a creepy, obsessive, misogynistic husband, a result of his strong inferiority complex. He bound Rose to shackles, cut off her wings (especially by making her financially dependent on him).
Rose had nothing more to compromise. What more could she have done?
Let me go through each relationships-
In other words, the casting was perfect.
2. I find the ML silent in the restaurant when the seniors are making me uncomfortable by crossing personal boundaries. (How'd I know that his friend stopped him???)
3. And then I'd find that same ML 'who was silent' following me to ask me whether I was okay or not while knowing I wasn't.
4. I'd notice small hints that he also mind my social status. Especially when I'm already feeling inferior to others, I find him backing away from our date across the road.
5. I ask him to be honest but he keeps lying to make himself look blameless.
From my pov, who'd be the hypocrite?
I also hate how the FL and SML are treated by the office workers, clearly dividing them by class...
If Thannam hadn't chosen to commit suicide that night, would anything have changed around her the way things did after she died?
Tee would have continued to treat her the same way he did before she died, Thannam would still have felt like an outsider in her father's home, and she would still be alone. We've seen that there were moments in her life when she felt lonely, with no one by her side, no one to reach out to... How could it have been her fault that she craved warmth and love 17 years ago? Why did she have to apologize to everyone when it should have been them who apologized to her for not being there for her?
People realized and felt guilty after she died, and things changed. Who could blame a young girl who just wanted to feel warm, and the water that night was warm to her?
She didn't owe an apology to those who had failed her.