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Powerful statement
I am writing this review because nobody else has, this is a short but powerful drama about the power of ignorance combined with miss representation in media for fueling prejudice among children as well as how easy it is to plant negative ideas and fear in a child about himself.The movie has one child that stands ous as the voice of reason and education without being to obvious about it, acting as the small shred of hope in an otherwise pretty awful environment.
The movie it self is actually nothing new, maybe not talked or shown enough, but colored children in a white environment are subjected to a whole lot of obstacles. It reminded me of the time I worked with kids in the country side when I got the question when the child was adopted when we got a child from an ethnic minority as well as well as the three year old child I worked with who once counted the white people on the tram and then said she wished she was white. So the way this child thought about himself as well as related to his surroundings was no surprise to me.
The way it is filmed is pretty powerful and it does make a strong statement, without sugarcoating the least bit this kid is thrown out in to the world to fight his own battle. I wish he would not have to fight his own battle, seeing it is a battle the grown ups and our society should be in charge of but I guess knowing how the world works the kid will be forced to do this and it should infuriate us all.
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Allot of drama and dispaisable characters with a side of charm
This was my first Lakorn so when reading this you may want to know that I judge it according to previous dramas watched and have honestly no knowledge of lakorns at all, and am more familiar with c-and k-dramas.What do you get if you take all the aggravating characters in Go ahead, Suits and Something in the rain along with bits and pieces of the plot to Remember:war of the son and put them together in one drama? Well probably something close to this.
A good thing that is also bad is that most of the characters go thru allot of development and change making non of them truly lovable, some pretty dispisable but even they have some good qualities at times making you feel allot of disappointment.
Though the male lead is very charming most of the time he does not really measure up to Jung Hae In (sorry). He does come off as pretty charming and cool most of the time and is probably the most likable character in this drama but falls short towards the end and feels kind of pathetic.
The female lead, is supposed to be bad ass but is essentially just a selfish scaredy cat, with some fine moments but to be honest she is just not very lovable.
The friends are annoying at times but over all seem to be the voice of reason in this drama, and display some pretty good friendship goals so hats off to them.
The Second female lead kind of gave me sls at times she is pretty cool and actually knows what she wants unlike the female lead who well you will see if you watch it.
The parent bring out my inner anger so much that I had to take a break to look at puppies whenever they came on a sign of me actually caring about the drama enough to get angry.
So all in all if you want a show with big variety that will have you charmed by the male lead and mad at the same time this is most definitely worth watching. But be where you will probably feel a range of emotions including some deep, deep frustration.
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Mr Icicle meets Mr Hot cup of milk
This drama is sweet but also makes me go what... The story is sweet we have the emotionally closed off icicle in desperate need of some one to though his col, cold heart and Mr heart or more fitting Mr Hot cup of milk who is a tad obsessive and in desperate need of a lesson in consent and finding his self worth.... Unlike other obsessive male leads this guy shows persistence without any aggression witch makes it hard to dislike him, This movie (also as a series) shows us the importance of equal footing in a relationship with the added bonus of sweet loan sharks.All in all an okay watch.
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Smoking, Scheming, Sexual (ASSult)and Snakes
I have so many issues with this drama its scary but at the same time a part of me just wants to celebrate the fact that this BL made it out in China... A drama where manipulation and sexual assault are means to help ones partner let loos.... and where friends that scheme together stay together. A drama where no means work harder and air without a mist of smoke just does not seem to exists, and nothings says I love you as much as a box (filled with cartons) of cigarettes. Entertaining at times sure, but a part of me wonders if this actually was Chinese anti LGBTQ+ propaganda disguised as a romance BL...The acting in this drama is so bad the only thing worse in it is the dubbing, while one of the male leads and his freind do seem to be able to deliver a line or two the others acting goes from bad to worse to okay back to really bad.
I personally love snakes but if you have ophidiophobia you will wither be cured, scared to death or have to skip the firs 12 episodes or so.
As for the characters and the story, there is not a single character (okay maybe the poor mom, but she also makes some bad decisions) that is good, pure, kind as they are highly problematic do a lot of shady stuff and deliver such great lines as.
"You killed the snake (that was strangling another person to death) are you even human"
Not to mention a complete lack of acknowledging the B in LGBTQ....
Oh and seriously, mouth blown sugar figurines, that can not be hygienic, at all.
So what can I say, expect highly questionable actions, moral decay, steam, lots of steam, smoke and snakes. But oddly entertaining friendships and obsessions.
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Snow white and the 6 mobsters
This has a some sweet, some over the top annoying, some adorable, some good and some meeh... But Id say all in all a pretty good balance between them all making it a highly bingable drama for all of those who love their cold meets hot, rich meats poor type pf dramas.The gagsters gone good are adorable between the moments f over the top annoying, but mostly adorable. The friendships are top, top, top. And they even managed to sneak in some depth and character development between the silly.
Things that really are not my thing was the female leads voice and job, it made great contrast towrds the bigtough mobstes and sure who doesn't like seeng beefy men singing while wearing cute animal suits but other than that there was just to many high notes and. squeakiness for me. But the over all childishness felt really wrong. It could have stayed at playful byt was mostly not really my kind of cute? Seriously why would grown human beings without children watch content ment for small children?
What balanced this up was:
1. Former criminals/mobster in animal clothing (yes I may be contradicting myself here, but there is a fine line between cute/fun/playful/sweet show of caring and the korean Mickey Mouse Club).
2. The male leads extremely sexy voice and overall appearance. dude was a bit to posesive and did have a red flag or two but who cares about that... When he shows up with those muskels and says something in his 5 packs of cigerrate gngster hoarse voice...
3. Found family
4. The second couple
5. Cuteness overkill in the side characters: played by: Park Jae Chan, Moon Ji In, Song Seo Rin, Kim Hyun Jin, Lee Yoo Joon.
6. The female leads characters forwardness and overall coolness (between the annoying that is)
So all in a all a fun binge just mind the silly... and it should be fine
P.S. I will add a comment about the second male lead as comment marked spoiler.
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Some people are just to good for this show...
Never have I ever completed a drama where the acting was this bad without the drama beeing so bad it was hilarious... as this drama was just bad... Though it did have som exceptions that I will get to in a moment but:The acting 11/14 -Bad
The fighting scenes - Bad
The Blood Splatter- Bad
The Friendships- 4/5 Awkwerd (not in a good way)
The styling- 11/14 bad
The filming- bad
The characters- 11/14 Bad
The lines- 1 good line in 8 episodes the rest cinge, meeh, bad...
The secound couple- unintersting, cringe wtf...
The villain- Annoying awfully stayled and just why?
The lighting- ok
Thg Gangster Male Lead Meen- Adorable, good looking, sweet, but why the hell did he fall for the geeky guy?
The Gangsters lackey- Adorable!
The Biker Gamer Nitta- Way to good for this show, in every way possible! Give this woman a leading role and a good script, stat!
The kisses and kinship where actually pretty ok..
And while there may not have been much substance to this show our gangster was pretty to look at, unfortunalty the pros did not get near to cover for all the flaws...
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The Scared and The Stallkey...
This is a not so cautionary tale, not really warning people to not tie other peoples shoe laces or else they may, just may end up getting more or less stalked by a polar bear. The polar bear is of course the sweetest guy ever, kind, loving, caring... And has luscious lips ,dripping of gloss and with the sweet, sweet taste of soju...The story seams to be there to tell us that the way to heal a broken heart is by constantly attacking it with fluff, persistency, and following the person both online and IRL... some would call that borderline stalking but in this drama they make sure to show us that this is indeed necessary when love at first knot meets fright at first stare.
Our lipgloss polar bear male lead is very lovable, sweet, romantic, kind, funny, helpful, patient... sometimes the guy is even respectful towards others boundaries (rare but it does happen).
Our scared male lead is also pretty decent, he does seem to have some issues and may need to seek help with his need to control everything around him. He does not come off as bubbley and lovable as mr. lipgloss but there is something about him that I do find myself appreciating. I just can not really put my finger on it.
The pacing in this is pretty odd... and it could have used a few more episodes in the middle to really work with the story.
The chemistry between the leads is decent, the gazes, kisses etc. range from dead fish to somekind flambéed fish.
The acting ranges between bad, really bad, ok and could be better, especially with the side characters.
There are not a lot of conflicts in this, the overall feel to it is fluff and stalking a guy out of his shell.... So the few added twists and spice don't really add much to the story but do not take away much either. So its really an easy binge for those moments you just need fluff (as long as you do not dig in to the whole boundaries issue ).
P.S. There are a lot of shots by a pool and those are just gorgeous, I do not really know their purpose but I love em and would like to encourage more dramas to incorporate pool side shots.
Also: There are those who actually do not seek couple/romantic love without beeing scared of it.
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An Empty Can of Coffee in an Empty Coffee Shop...
This is the story about the girl who wanted to learn how to make great coffee... or more like got a crush on a barista so she used the oldest trick in the book "learning" to get close to her.The girls are kind of sweet, and the chemistry is fine there is not a lot of plot, but there is som smooching and fluff. I gave it an extra 0.5 points for the fluff, but I guess it did not really touch me.
If you do watch it I would recommend you watch an episode a day without a big gap, as I thought it had 4 episodes but it turnd out to have 7 so I started it to early and got a big gap between the first 4 and the last 3 which I binged.
So as long as you prepare yourself for some fluff, cliche talk and not so much substance and all should be fine.
P.S There is nothing wrong with watching something that lacks substance.
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All is surrounded by beautiful flowers and a catchy OST that made my dance in my seat.
Sweet, short, perfect in-between stuff, like an old school commercial break but more interesting.
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Moonlight mess... Life is hard...
To be perfectly honest this should be a 6 but I just could not give it less than an 8... Why you may ask these two very different ratings?It is all about the + and - Story and Pacing is probably more of a 6 or maybe a 6,5 it is just not that captivating or interesting... It has a lot of interesting moments and some good lines here and there but most of the drama feels like it has a bunch of ways to make the stories fit together instead of focusing on 4 good stories.
I love all the actors in the cast of this drama, however both Earth and First where miscasted here, I assume they where there as part of their assigned duo... I do not know if it is a either take the whole band (duo) or I am out type of deal , but even though there was nothing lacking in their acting they where just not right for their parts... As Earth did not give almost 40 vibes at all (trust me I am soon to be 40 myself), the age difference between Mix and Earth is 5 years and well it is noticeable which makes the whole old man plot line just ridiculous... That said the very few physical scenes between Mix and Earth where as lovely as always.
The best part of this show was without a doubt Gemini and Fourth they where as playful as ever had great chemistry and just left me wanting even more... I am not going to say that their story line was perfect but they did manage to show some of the issues that deaf people have to deal with in a decent way... And though some of the dialog there felt forced there were a whole lot of good lines in there as well.
There are also a bunch of good portrayals of found family, friendship, poverty sucks, break ups can be hard... and life in general is complicated.
Part of the show felt like it was a mixtape of GMMTVs most popular performers... There to fill the void of those who miss their Ships... Which gave me mixed feeling, I love em all and enjoyed a bunch of their scenes, reminding me of past dramas I loved watching and just generally putting a smile on my face... I can not help but wonder if those who have not seen these pairings before would feel about watching this. And while it did give me some enjoyment for those particular scenes I am pretty sure this casting affected the over all execution of the show in a bad way...
I am not exactly sure where I am going with this but I guess I want to say that if you have previously enjoyed the actors of this show you will probably enjoy this show in a different way than if these pairings are completely new to you. I am not sure in what way...
So what can I say it is a slightly messy slice of lie that could have been a lot better, but is good enough to watch... and gets extra points for the parts that made me smile.
Also, make sure to pay attention at the color coordination of clothes and set... Sometimes it is more obvious than others.
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A small dose of sugar
This is so cute, an invite in to the mind of a college girl who is afraid to fall in love who winds up sleeping next to a guy who seems to have fallen for her shoulder... and there it goes she gets to learn more and more about mr. odd who seems to be slightly obsessed with days like "orange day" "dog day" and what not... , he borrows her shoulder and every episode pretty much ends with her reminding herself not to fall in love and that the guy is only in it for her shoulder making this a slightly repetitive yet really fun to watch pallet cleanser...Was this review helpful to you?
Life: Love on the Line (Director's Cut)
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Hopping on the train or following ones line is not alway an easy choice to make..
This movie is an emotional ride, as we get to follow the lives of these two boys to men... from the wild imagination to the bitter reality struggling and trying to balance the pressure of leading a normal life and being true to ones self.This drama shows quite a few issues in a very honest and I dare say real way, as many people will /have found them selfs dealing with these struggles, gay or not. Life is always harder on those who stick out and while it may be easier to just hop on that normalcy train... It is a lot more painful.
The leads are in no way perfect, while one is more lovable than the other (in my opinion), both have their flaws just like most humans making them relatable, and making me feel for them. I did of course also want to beat a few people up as we get to see both racism and homophobia disguised as concern how this could be concern is of course beyond me but I know there are a whole bunch of people who actually do believe their racism is concern and well this movie does a pretty good job showing both the internalised homophobia one may feel as well as a whole bunch of shades of homophobia, but also a whole lot of love, lust and everything in-between.
The movie has quite a few really good inner monologs showing just how important (yet again) communication is, as well as just taking a step back and listening to ones partner instead of assuming things as one of the leads does get a lesson in both consent, and regret and so on and so on...
So what can I say... It is a good movie, not always easy to watch but it is a good movie
In numbers:
Consent: 7
Chemistry: 10
Romance: 8
Real feel: 9
Lovable characters: 8 (one of the male leads is a d*** sometimes)
Depth: 10
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Fall in Love with the leads!
This drama probably has two of c-dramalands best leads. They are interesting, fun, stuff happens around them and they most definitely create fireworks with the MLs great Playfulness and the Fls total coolness.. She is the perfect icicle, she is smart fun, humble, pretty, and even has some super powers! The ML is gorgeous! (But I knew that) he is this fun free spirit type of guy who shows great curiosity and even though he most definitely is a playboy is actually pretty respectful though he does need a lesson in turning the ladies down...Most of the side characters are also fun, cool and all round a pleasure to watch...
All but well 2 people that got on my nerves for both bad acting and just plain annoying childish characters... And I will admit a few good characters actually regressed and had negative character development, dragging down the experience of this show as well as the score.
The drama is full of cliches, So if you do not like cliches then don't even try to watch this no matter how attractive the cast may be this is clic fest and well I love it... It has it all amnesia, kidnapping, power struggles, miss understandings. evil conniving SFL s that made my blood boil but did keep me interested most of the time.
This drama may not be what I would actually call good, and is far from a masterpiece but it is highly entertaining easy to binge and just plain fun to watch. But you may want to skip the scenes with the little sister...
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Gives Chinese fluff a whole new meaning, cat fights and cat power!
This was a really sweet rom com with the classic love over time with impossible obstacles and a touch of sweetness surrounded by allot of fluffy Kittys. Giving new meaning to the word cat fight. And with allot of cat power!This movie really has allot more substance then I thought it would and while I was scared it would have problems similar to the ones in Meow the secret boy this one is nothing like Meow and is a romance between two consenting competent adults with their own lives, abilities and dreams. Portraying both longing, pain, the struggles in understanding others, and allot of fluffy humor.
Most of it was well made but I admit some parts where just ridiculous, Song Wei Longs character was not his typical character and to be honest it lacked his usual charm. But the male lead was cold yet sweet and extremely fluffy. He did not force himself on the female lead, no not even once! And the side characters where okay, I was not annoyed at any one (could be that it is only a 90 minute movie). The chemistry between the leads was good and both of the leads acting were on spot.
I was never board and I did feel a range of emotions, mostly fluff. But they where not very intense and though a few scenes did feel like an attempt from the makers to make us cry It did not hit home for me but it may for you so be were. It did tickle out some light laughter and was simply an easy to watch movie with more depth and verity than one may think a cat man would have incorporating both action, longing and comedy in to one. giving it high entertainment value.
All in all a true fluff piece, worth a watch for both cat lovers and rom com buffs like me!
Oh and the OST was really sweet but for some reason I have I'm a scatt man playing in my head...
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One of the greatest romcoms with a questionable backstory
I was very skeptical about this drama because of it's description concerning hearttransplantees. So skeptical that I really did not want to watch it.I have mixed feelings about how this drama portrayes heartrransplantees. On the one hand they do a good job showing the rediculus expectations and questionis hearttransplanrees get from the people around them as well as feelings one may have while expecting to die before a heart transplant and the feelings one may have after surviving. On the other hand they portray the process really poorly and unrealisticly. It was so badly done that it made me laugh, allot!
I really didn't like it when they talked about the donerheart beeing with them... which is the sole reason I am giving this a 9 instead of a 10.
The couples dynamics, looks, chemistry and process was flawless. It was existing and had all kinds of twists and turns. Something that makes for a really really really good romcom!
If you neglect the whole heart thing the story is also really good and well done.
So please watch this, if you liked this review and want to learn more from a transplantees point of view then after you watch episodes 1 and 2 I recommend you read my comments on those episodes. I had allot to say... but I don't want to spoil this great drama for you.
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