Just saw ep 5 and am rapidly losing interest in this drama. We find out that one of Yi Hua's past relationships…
I actually agree, completely.
I find her rather superficial and narrow-minded, even though I think her character isn't really supposed to come across as such. But I can't help it, I just can't like her and feel empathy for her. I'm at episode 7, and she claims to be looking for real love blablabla, but it still feels like all she cares about is what blatantly "looks" like love, the "accessories" that give two people the appearance of a normal, loving couple -- all while being deaf to Bai Zong You's sincerity, as clumsy and twisted as it is. Also the part where she goes on the blind-dates feel like she's shopping for husbands, I just hate it.
Maybe the point of her character is to prove this aspect of her personality wrong as rom-coms often do, but still, I can't stand her how self-righteous she is...
I loved the drama but was just wondering: at the beginning of each episode (or however this drama was sectioned, I just didn't get it since it's different on viki for example), they would play scenes of the drama that were a little hazy and white, along with the theme song. In the end I recognised them all, apart from the really sweet images where, if I remember well, the three of them are in the garden playing, and Mu Cheng is watering them with a sprinkler, laughing. Then you see them sitting on the porch, with Mu Cheng in Guang Xi's arms, and Xiao Le playing around. There's also another scene of the three of them in the kitchen I believe, and both Xiao Le and Guang Xi kiss Mu Cheng, who is between them. And then I think you see the 3 carrots together. Or something like that ;)
Anyways I was really looking forward to those scenes, only never saw them :( Does anyone know if they were actually part of the drama?
I seriously dislike the fact that they chose the same title as Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece.
I know, how strange... The mere title of that movie is so memorable and emblematic, don't they realize that apart from ridiculing themselves by putting this drama at the same level as classic and an actual work of art (whether you like the movie or not, it's obvious it's immensely precise, subtle original, aesthetic...), it's also disadvantageous for them because it will always be confused or even overshadowed by the movie.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway! I didn't know about Tuttle Publishing before this so I'm thankful for that alone.…
nice choice :) I actually read that book last year, and I really enjoyed it. It's a slow read, but I like books that are descriptive, and the cat in this book spends his time describing ordinary life with a slightly cynical/condescending tone, which is pretty funny - it has that kind of understated depth a lot of japanese dramas/movies have. The version I own is the Tuttle one, and it's very nicely printed with a cool cover.
Good luck!
aw, I was happy about Hyun Bin's TV comeback and all, but... Sung Joon as a second lead, again? His performance in Shut Up Flower Boy Band was one of the best I've watched... And as much as I like Hyun Bin, I don't want Sung Joon to be wasted as another typical rejected but noble second lead.
Unless his part is well written! It's not so much that I mind him not getting the girl, I just don't want his character to be underdeveloped and stereotypical as secondary characters almost always are in dramas... :(
yessss somebody changed his picture, thanks! that previous one hardly even looked like him (makeup or photoshop, I don't know)... So far I've seen him in Shut Up Flower Boy Band, Discovery of Romance and I Need Romance 3 - in which he always come across to me as a gentle and introspective person, and not the typical jerky alpha male lead. Really like him, and really like this new picture that reflects that dark yet soft thing about him as well ;)
I don't listen to k-pop so I don't know him for his music. I saw him in his small role in Master's Sun and his more substantial role in Shut Up Flower Boy Band - in which he's perfect in his role. Maybe it's just that his role is similar to his real life persona, I don't know, but in any case he's not awkward at all, so I don't really get why people are saying he's such a bad actor...
He's one of the best actors i've ever seen in Que Sera Sera :) And I'm currently loving him in Discovery of Love! Both characters are on the verge of being unforgivable, and yet he somehow always wins me over no matter what ;)
I just read a review on imdb that perfectly captures what's strange and special about Shara Thought I would share it if ever anyone is curious about this movie. To me Shara was the kind of movie that was a confusing and perhaps occasionally flat watch, but that stays in one's mind vividly as a memory. And although as I watched it I wasn't sure whether I liked it or not, with some distance I now consider it was a very special movie.
"Zen, transliterated from Japanese, means 'to manifest the simple'. Easier said than done, starting with the basic acknowledgment that nothing is really simple in life. In the madcap terms of Zen, however, it means precisely that—nothing, it is simple. Better said, it is riding a horse, and there is no man on the saddle, and no horse under it. So how to convey nothing at all?
Well, look no further. This filmmaker, Kawase, is after my own heart, she nails it. She has a rather flat dramatic sense, but the rest is pretty wonderful.
This is some of the best cinematic Zen I know. It has the 'free and easy wandering'. It's visibly imperfect, relaxed but faintly echoes of melancholy. As with L'avventura, a disappearance is the tip of the thread. Nothing really happens, except between loss and new life, there is some life. The camera floats around corners of life, it takes you there. We marvel at different textures, types of light; gardens abound. Next to Sans Soleil, this is one of the best films to transport you to Japan.
It's simple. The idea, laid out early in a talk between the organizers of a dance street festival, is to convey a sense of joy and participation, it's to create out of nothing, in the streets, a spontaneous atmosphere. However, the spectator has to participate, that is you. In essence, it's the same idea that drives both meditation and Japanese tea. It's sitting down, letting what you think it should be all about flow out, so that, hopefully, you're left with what it was in the first place.
In our case, it's the connection between people.
It's magical when it happens, on the day of the festival. Viewers will be puzzled by what the repetitive dance is supposed to mean, those more perceptive perhaps tying it to the Buddhist mantra chanted earlier in a temple. It means nothing, that's the beauty. It's there, like the dance in the film, to take you from humdrum life to joyful appreciation of it being what it is.
It's magical, because the dance is really nothing, they're doing (a whole troope) the same thing over and over again. And yet it's infectious, diffused in the air it shapes the experience. What you see is better than metaphor, it's transcendent—it actually transforms the weather.
I find her rather superficial and narrow-minded, even though I think her character isn't really supposed to come across as such. But I can't help it, I just can't like her and feel empathy for her. I'm at episode 7, and she claims to be looking for real love blablabla, but it still feels like all she cares about is what blatantly "looks" like love, the "accessories" that give two people the appearance of a normal, loving couple -- all while being deaf to Bai Zong You's sincerity, as clumsy and twisted as it is. Also the part where she goes on the blind-dates feel like she's shopping for husbands, I just hate it.
Maybe the point of her character is to prove this aspect of her personality wrong as rom-coms often do, but still, I can't stand her how self-righteous she is...
Anyways I was really looking forward to those scenes, only never saw them :( Does anyone know if they were actually part of the drama?
Good luck!
Unless his part is well written! It's not so much that I mind him not getting the girl, I just don't want his character to be underdeveloped and stereotypical as secondary characters almost always are in dramas... :(
http://www.dramabeans.com/2014/11/park-hae-jin-in-the-running-to-become-a-joseon-vampire/
Was it any good?
:)
http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/books-by-country/chinese-kites-hardcover-with-jacket
This is a fun event! I would love to be able to make a kite, hehe :)
"Zen, transliterated from Japanese, means 'to manifest the simple'. Easier said than done, starting with the basic acknowledgment that nothing is really simple in life. In the madcap terms of Zen, however, it means precisely that—nothing, it is simple. Better said, it is riding a horse, and there is no man on the saddle, and no horse under it. So how to convey nothing at all?
Well, look no further. This filmmaker, Kawase, is after my own heart, she nails it. She has a rather flat dramatic sense, but the rest is pretty wonderful.
This is some of the best cinematic Zen I know. It has the 'free and easy wandering'. It's visibly imperfect, relaxed but faintly echoes of melancholy. As with L'avventura, a disappearance is the tip of the thread. Nothing really happens, except between loss and new life, there is some life. The camera floats around corners of life, it takes you there. We marvel at different textures, types of light; gardens abound. Next to Sans Soleil, this is one of the best films to transport you to Japan.
It's simple. The idea, laid out early in a talk between the organizers of a dance street festival, is to convey a sense of joy and participation, it's to create out of nothing, in the streets, a spontaneous atmosphere. However, the spectator has to participate, that is you. In essence, it's the same idea that drives both meditation and Japanese tea. It's sitting down, letting what you think it should be all about flow out, so that, hopefully, you're left with what it was in the first place.
In our case, it's the connection between people.
It's magical when it happens, on the day of the festival. Viewers will be puzzled by what the repetitive dance is supposed to mean, those more perceptive perhaps tying it to the Buddhist mantra chanted earlier in a temple. It means nothing, that's the beauty. It's there, like the dance in the film, to take you from humdrum life to joyful appreciation of it being what it is.
It's magical, because the dance is really nothing, they're doing (a whole troope) the same thing over and over again. And yet it's infectious, diffused in the air it shapes the experience. What you see is better than metaphor, it's transcendent—it actually transforms the weather.
Something to meditate upon."
by chaos-rampant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363060/