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Same problem as so often...
This started rather funny and easy to watch, with nice visuals, music and at first an interesting storyline about someone who suddenly suffers from face blindness - which probably is rather irritating and devastating - at first at least.
The second episode is really funny and again Kim Young Kwang stands out to me with his acting abilities as he can even do comedy stuff - he can play a total psycho (Somebody), a depressive, silent businessman (call it love), a nasty deity, he can convincingly cry his eyes out in front of the camera, you name it, he can do it all.
But once again the writers are so sloppy with the storytelling - and this drama here is no exception sadly.
So, yes, the ML suffers from face blindness, but how does he also suffer from not recognising distinct individual voices of people? Especially his secretary, who deceives him with claiming she is Veronia Park? Her voice is so distinct and sometimes screeching even in both characters she plays, and he doesn't realise it's her? Not credible. Same goes of course for many other people around him. You normally recognise people not only by their faces, but by their voices, walks, scent, soooo many things. So dragging this blindfold-story for about 10 episodes without him realising it is just nonsensical.
That said, I have another problem with this: It really bothers me again and again that the female leads are portrayed like 5 year-old girls, totally naive and never taking action.
So here, given she deceives the ML, when he finds out and is so hurt? She apologises, but never tells him how she really feels about him. Then the ML has got to crawl back to her and apopgise and understand her and HE confesses his love, when she does not even then tell him that she likes him too? And it goes like that until the very end, he is almost lovedrunk, babbling the most over the top romantic stuff, and she still just silently looks like a shocked deer in the headlights and like she does not even know what's happening? Why does it always have to be this 'helpless, clueless little-girl-portrait of adult women? With this pre-story, and her being in love with the ML for so long? If he confesses, an adult woman would react differently for sure?
I just can't get used to that image of women like that. And they dragged this for sooo many episodes, I even ff-ed from episode 7 to the end then to just see when they will finally get together. And even that was then underwhelming because she even then can't bring herself to simply say to him 'I like you too'.
The second episode is really funny and again Kim Young Kwang stands out to me with his acting abilities as he can even do comedy stuff - he can play a total psycho (Somebody), a depressive, silent businessman (call it love), a nasty deity, he can convincingly cry his eyes out in front of the camera, you name it, he can do it all.
But once again the writers are so sloppy with the storytelling - and this drama here is no exception sadly.
So, yes, the ML suffers from face blindness, but how does he also suffer from not recognising distinct individual voices of people? Especially his secretary, who deceives him with claiming she is Veronia Park? Her voice is so distinct and sometimes screeching even in both characters she plays, and he doesn't realise it's her? Not credible. Same goes of course for many other people around him. You normally recognise people not only by their faces, but by their voices, walks, scent, soooo many things. So dragging this blindfold-story for about 10 episodes without him realising it is just nonsensical.
That said, I have another problem with this: It really bothers me again and again that the female leads are portrayed like 5 year-old girls, totally naive and never taking action.
So here, given she deceives the ML, when he finds out and is so hurt? She apologises, but never tells him how she really feels about him. Then the ML has got to crawl back to her and apopgise and understand her and HE confesses his love, when she does not even then tell him that she likes him too? And it goes like that until the very end, he is almost lovedrunk, babbling the most over the top romantic stuff, and she still just silently looks like a shocked deer in the headlights and like she does not even know what's happening? Why does it always have to be this 'helpless, clueless little-girl-portrait of adult women? With this pre-story, and her being in love with the ML for so long? If he confesses, an adult woman would react differently for sure?
I just can't get used to that image of women like that. And they dragged this for sooo many episodes, I even ff-ed from episode 7 to the end then to just see when they will finally get together. And even that was then underwhelming because she even then can't bring herself to simply say to him 'I like you too'.
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