A Staggering Masterpiece
You know when you watch something and know you're just watching art? Watching something that speaks to so many different things simultaneously while also being gorgeous to look at? To witness some incredible acting performances that should be awarded awards from ACROSS the world? That's what When Life Gives You Tangerines is.Kim Wonsuk, the director and Im Sangchoon the writer, just came together for a masterpiece that I don't know can ever be duplicated. Not only the skill of going between timelines, forward and back and with a dozen characters, is masterful. It all felt smooth.
IU, Moon Sori, Park Bogum, and Park Haejoon just brought themselves to levels above. About life, about family, about love, about generational pain. It's all here.
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My first review for a show I do not appreciate.
The kdramas I watch I actually like most of them. This one is my first that I loathe. I think it's nonsensical, the writing is abysmal where our main woman lead is walking around miserable for the last like 4 episodes of a 10 episode series, and she decides to get with the man who made her miserable and says she knows he'll cause her pain but she'll do it anyways. I guess that's supposed to be deep, but... it isn't. Not even slightly.I love Han Sohee and Song Kang but this wasn't it.
What I will give it props for is basically EVERY other character in this show besides our two leads are pretty enjoyable. I mean all of them, they are all just fun or cooky or interesting.
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