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A beautiful translation of each other's love.
A heartfelt mature romance of two individuals showcasing vulnerabilities& miscommunication and the sheer efforts to understand each other's language of love. Its layered & nuanced. Its a love that explores connection and demands trust, patience,empathy. Its not loud but caring and provides healing& comfort to the broken soul.
Sitting with this drama for a while, i have come to really appreciate the storytelling. It's very layered. Our main leads aren't the simple, cheerful , but complex charac with their own issues. I love how, throughout the drama, we explore their issues along w them. Since the very start, both laid out their true selves to each other, which they normally would hide from the world.
Its all important because this is eventually leading to them fully understanding each other amidst all the miscommunication between them. Because the central theme of this drama is understanding one another's love for each other.
Coming to hojin, he is a pretty emotionally restrained charac who translates people's words for a living. Hence, he is used to the direct ways of communication. language derived of emotions is where he loses his footing. He is someone very reserved and direct. Hence, his words can sometimes cut through like a knife, but he is also someone who is thoughtful in his own silent ways who eventually come around. And that's why muhee shakes his world. He has never been the one to initiate. We see his regrets over his first failed love. But muhee is the driving force that awakes his curiosity to understand the twisted language of love. Hence, you will see his gravity of loving someone isn't loud but quiet and profound. He observes, understands, and learns to reach out. Muhee is a tricky person to him. He sees himself drawn to her, and that's why he starts questioning everything. After understanding her trsuma more, he truly dives deep to help her out. Hence, kim seonho's performance might seem not so trivial, but in the end, it's exactly the opposite of it. He truly bought the simplicity yet the complexity of hojin's personality to life.
Coming to our muhee, truly broken and vulnerable charac. Her alter ego dorami being her protector of sort. Who is unapologetic and manipulative , helps her from getting hurt, and face more trauma. We are introduced to her since the very beginning, but her actual gravity comes in phases. She isn't a hateful version of muhee but a much more broken version of hers. Muhee is someone who is cheery and outgoing and wants to experience the world. But dorami holds her down. Not cos she is evil, but she is a shield for her to not face any more rejections from life. It's not easy to break away from that, considering everything she has been through in her life. It's sad and utterly heartbreaking. And that's where younjung does such a great job at potraying the stark difference in the characs. And that's why muhee doesn't want the world to know of it. She thinks she doesn't deserve the love and light of the world. She thinks she doesn't deserve the festival dedicated to her. But hojin being there to see both of her versions,thats why their love story brings a lot of mature points where we see them healing one another from their past and trauma.
Dorami, as mentioned above, is very bold in her actions, but the kindness and understanding that she never experienced from anyone, but now she does from hojin, confuses her. Hence, she becomes even more wary of him. But also can't help buy reach out to him as a last resort of her to save herself.
That's why episode 9s ending is so utterly heartbreaking but beautiful. It's her finally asking, letting herself breathe and tell hojin how she longs to be loved and that this facade of dorami is slowly weakening as she no longer wants to be this broken. She is pleading almost in a desperate attempt to disappear so that muhee can live her life and enjoy the festival.
Their love holds a lot of meaning considering we are so used to confessions being all promise of eternity but even though i have nothing against it but reality is far too twisted sometimes and someone dealing w trauma and healing through doesnt need things to be sugarcoated , especially in this case where muhee is still learning to let go of her trauma and trying to love herself. When all her life she believed she didn't deserve any bit and would run away. Hojin is trying his best to tell her that let's just love for today and not think bout tomorrow, and some might think this doesn't give a promising start to the future, but that's exactly the point. Future is too overwhelming, but assuring bout the present is sometimes one needs.
Overall, my one small complaint is that the personality disorder theme needed more medical attention. It needed a few more eps for finding a closure. I dont hate the outcome, but i genuinely felt 2 more eps could have been made to wrap up the journey.
But I'm m all in the feels and have come to appreciate this drama a lot. And a huge shoutout to the spectacular cinematography that made all the difference and elevated the drama to a whole another level. I truly wish kdramas would take this scenic route more, lol. Felt like living in a dream. 💜🍀
Sitting with this drama for a while, i have come to really appreciate the storytelling. It's very layered. Our main leads aren't the simple, cheerful , but complex charac with their own issues. I love how, throughout the drama, we explore their issues along w them. Since the very start, both laid out their true selves to each other, which they normally would hide from the world.
Its all important because this is eventually leading to them fully understanding each other amidst all the miscommunication between them. Because the central theme of this drama is understanding one another's love for each other.
Coming to hojin, he is a pretty emotionally restrained charac who translates people's words for a living. Hence, he is used to the direct ways of communication. language derived of emotions is where he loses his footing. He is someone very reserved and direct. Hence, his words can sometimes cut through like a knife, but he is also someone who is thoughtful in his own silent ways who eventually come around. And that's why muhee shakes his world. He has never been the one to initiate. We see his regrets over his first failed love. But muhee is the driving force that awakes his curiosity to understand the twisted language of love. Hence, you will see his gravity of loving someone isn't loud but quiet and profound. He observes, understands, and learns to reach out. Muhee is a tricky person to him. He sees himself drawn to her, and that's why he starts questioning everything. After understanding her trsuma more, he truly dives deep to help her out. Hence, kim seonho's performance might seem not so trivial, but in the end, it's exactly the opposite of it. He truly bought the simplicity yet the complexity of hojin's personality to life.
Coming to our muhee, truly broken and vulnerable charac. Her alter ego dorami being her protector of sort. Who is unapologetic and manipulative , helps her from getting hurt, and face more trauma. We are introduced to her since the very beginning, but her actual gravity comes in phases. She isn't a hateful version of muhee but a much more broken version of hers. Muhee is someone who is cheery and outgoing and wants to experience the world. But dorami holds her down. Not cos she is evil, but she is a shield for her to not face any more rejections from life. It's not easy to break away from that, considering everything she has been through in her life. It's sad and utterly heartbreaking. And that's where younjung does such a great job at potraying the stark difference in the characs. And that's why muhee doesn't want the world to know of it. She thinks she doesn't deserve the love and light of the world. She thinks she doesn't deserve the festival dedicated to her. But hojin being there to see both of her versions,thats why their love story brings a lot of mature points where we see them healing one another from their past and trauma.
Dorami, as mentioned above, is very bold in her actions, but the kindness and understanding that she never experienced from anyone, but now she does from hojin, confuses her. Hence, she becomes even more wary of him. But also can't help buy reach out to him as a last resort of her to save herself.
That's why episode 9s ending is so utterly heartbreaking but beautiful. It's her finally asking, letting herself breathe and tell hojin how she longs to be loved and that this facade of dorami is slowly weakening as she no longer wants to be this broken. She is pleading almost in a desperate attempt to disappear so that muhee can live her life and enjoy the festival.
Their love holds a lot of meaning considering we are so used to confessions being all promise of eternity but even though i have nothing against it but reality is far too twisted sometimes and someone dealing w trauma and healing through doesnt need things to be sugarcoated , especially in this case where muhee is still learning to let go of her trauma and trying to love herself. When all her life she believed she didn't deserve any bit and would run away. Hojin is trying his best to tell her that let's just love for today and not think bout tomorrow, and some might think this doesn't give a promising start to the future, but that's exactly the point. Future is too overwhelming, but assuring bout the present is sometimes one needs.
Overall, my one small complaint is that the personality disorder theme needed more medical attention. It needed a few more eps for finding a closure. I dont hate the outcome, but i genuinely felt 2 more eps could have been made to wrap up the journey.
But I'm m all in the feels and have come to appreciate this drama a lot. And a huge shoutout to the spectacular cinematography that made all the difference and elevated the drama to a whole another level. I truly wish kdramas would take this scenic route more, lol. Felt like living in a dream. 💜🍀
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