"-ing" is the particle that is added to verbs in English in the present progressive tense, which is the continual tense of the present. It's the theme of the movie in that the mother especially strives throughout her daughter's short life to have her live for today. It is a great message used by many parents of terminally ill children.
People keep wondering what her illness was. They don't say....it's meaningless. What she has doesn't change what message the movie is trying to get across, however obviously.
This is a lovely movie and it got a lot of great reviews when it came out. It's hard to find fault when the performances are as wonderful and heartfelt as they are in this. I loved every minute of it. This is in spite of the fact that the movie is highly predictable in every way. We know going in that she will die at the end. Honestly, I think I would rate this movie higher if they had had the courage to NOT play the death card and instead have them face head on a life of uncertainties and showing the strength to battle through those as a couple. So I give it an 8.5 because I wished for a bit more from this than the textbook sad story. This is my second time watching this. It is just too lovely of a watch not to. And I will definitely watch it again in a few more years.
everyone says they love this drama, but why is the rating lower than i expected it to be? can someone explain?
I meant Noire's question...the ratings here on MDL have nothing to do with the ratings in Korea. That's done just like here in the US with boxes on the selected participants tv sets in Korea. The ratings in Korea averaged out to 4% which is very decent given that it is broadcast on a cable channel that only a very few people in Korea pay for. Or, did Noire mean the rating here on MDL which is an entirely different audience, far more international. I really kinda hoped this one would hit closer to the 9 mark here. Wishful thinking since I am so over the moon about it myself, as are my friends who watched. There are only a little over 300 people who have rated it though...showing the small audience it had. This I blame on Viki and Dramafever, neither of whom picked it up for subbing which royally pissed us off! ;) Some of us inundated them with requests for subbing....to no avail. It is so frustrating when quality adult programming like this is ignored. :( Anyway, if Noire was talking about the rating here, I'm with her/him...I expected and continue to hope for it to move higher. !!!
They don't come much more perfect than this one. An Adult Drama for adults. I bow down in adoration to tvN. So thankful every day for them. Between this, Signal, Memory, Misaeng, Cheese in the Trap, Reply 1988, Dear My Friends, Age of Youth and a host of other brilliant shows, they have a lock on the best of the best. The caliber of actors, directors, and producers that gravitate to tvN is amazing. Now if we could just get more of their shows subbed. Dying for After the Show Ends subs!!!!
everyone says they love this drama, but why is the rating lower than i expected it to be? can someone explain?
Are you talking about the ratings in Korea or the rating here? Because I am also surprised at how low the rating is here. Or maybe I shouldn't be based on the type of questions being asked about how much romance there is and who she ends up with. :( SMH Hopefully the ratings will go up here now that the final episode has finally been subbed. The adults who have been addicted to this show for what it really is should rate it very high.
Gorgeous to look at, erotic, dark, fascinating. But soft porn is soft porn, no matter how pretty or beautifully written or acted it is. The story was riveting, and the saturation of color in the cinematography, as well as the phenomenal sets, were an absolute feast for the senses on their own. I wonder if Kim Tae Ri will now disappear like so many of these young ingenues who get roped into doing nude scenes in Korean movies. Or god forbid, commit suicide like some others. 8.5/10
I've watched hundreds of dramas. They don't come any better than this one. Beautifully unique, superb writing, perfect casting, wonderful acting. It needed at least a couple more episodes, but the ending is very very typical of cable and jTBC in particular. It was really remarkable in every way
Excellent performances. Frustrating and infuriating story of bureaucratic ineptitude of criminal proportions. The beginning of the film through almost the end was very well done. Despite her idiocy of trusting criminals, and her bewildering decision to do what she did to get them out of debt, the end results of what happened to her were so unjustified. My research into what actually happened to her, especially after she came back to Korea, dampened my enjoyment of the movie a bit. She has struggled for acceptance and her family have been ostracized, so the so called netizens and the press were not the saviors this movie makes them out to be, though I'm sure they helped speed things up considerably when they did get involved. I found the ending to be forgivably melo, the wailing violins and piano creating unnecessary drama to an already melodramatic ending. Even so, the overall feeling from this movie was one of frustration and sadness at just how quickly a person can be abandoned in a foreign country, at least if you are Korean. 8/10
What pills do they give her in prison every night in France? :/
sleeping pills. She says it very quickly in one of her voice overs...something like the sleeping pills they give us, etc. They don't explain why, but I suspect it's because they get 'tired of' the nightmares and screaming. And perhaps because the night shift guards want to sleep themselves? :(
Interesting movie. The story is tragic, but you know that going in. I'm left feeling a bit ... disappointed? I'm not sure that's exactly it? Somehow the movie did not pull me in like I though it should have. I think maybe it is the format of flashbacks interspersed with the 'interrogation' scenes that, for me. interrupted the flow and the emotions this movie should have evoked in me. I loved the look, the cast, the acting. The interrogations scenes were, however, off putting and disruptive. I also found them a bit implausible and too obvious as a device to sort of 'preach to the audience'. I don't mean the movie was bad at all. It's just that I expected more I guess. Still, it is 8/10 for me. It went by amazingly fast. I WISH the final scroll of dates and events had been translated. It appeared to be a timeline of some sort. That was very disappointing. Definitely a really good movie and makes me want to know more. Like how did his poems survive?
Absolutely beautiful story of a beautiful friendship. Uplifting and heartbreaking all at the same time. LOVED it. A nice take on the Cyrano de Bergerac tale.
It's currently waiting subbing on Viki. More people need to follow the channel. Hopefully a team will get interested and sub it soon! PLEASE GO TO THE VIKI CHANNEL AND CLICK ON THE + TO FOLLOW!! https://www.viki.com/videos/1108674v-sori-voice-from-the-heart
This is obviously the inspiration for the series My Secret Hotel. Jin Yi Han was also starred in that. Strange, I totally cannot remember how that thing ended. She didn't end up with Namgoong Min so she and her ex must have gotten back together? I'll have to go look that up now! Anyway, this was good. Some may not like the messy relationships going on here, but I appreciated the reality of it. Feelings do linger. It's too bad they gave into them if he was going to stay with his (very irritating and immature) child bride. I see a bad ending to that marriage!!! It's very obvious the 2 of them messed up their marriage and there was enough fault to go around for sure. Lack of communication, immaturity, insecurity...3 huge destructive emotions that can and did destroy a marriage.
An absolutely, sweet, funny, sad little drama. I always appreciate seeing Lee Joon perform and he is certainly different in this performance. Nice pilot for a series.
Good. The script was a bit too melo and she isn't a favorite of mine. But Bae Soo Bin can do no wrong in my eyes. That guy can wring water from a desert.
But I said before you could probably go on indefinitely. I know there are others, but my old head won't dredge them out right now. The pool is deep with these tiny thespians and their abilities amaze.
People keep wondering what her illness was. They don't say....it's meaningless. What she has doesn't change what message the movie is trying to get across, however obviously.
This is a lovely movie and it got a lot of great reviews when it came out. It's hard to find fault when the performances are as wonderful and heartfelt as they are in this. I loved every minute of it. This is in spite of the fact that the movie is highly predictable in every way. We know going in that she will die at the end. Honestly, I think I would rate this movie higher if they had had the courage to NOT play the death card and instead have them face head on a life of uncertainties and showing the strength to battle through those as a couple. So I give it an 8.5 because I wished for a bit more from this than the textbook sad story. This is my second time watching this. It is just too lovely of a watch not to. And I will definitely watch it again in a few more years.
Interesting movie. The story is tragic, but you know that going in. I'm left feeling a bit ... disappointed? I'm not sure that's exactly it? Somehow the movie did not pull me in like I though it should have. I think maybe it is the format of flashbacks interspersed with the 'interrogation' scenes that, for me. interrupted the flow and the emotions this movie should have evoked in me. I loved the look, the cast, the acting. The interrogations scenes were, however, off putting and disruptive. I also found them a bit implausible and too obvious as a device to sort of 'preach to the audience'. I don't mean the movie was bad at all. It's just that I expected more I guess. Still, it is 8/10 for me. It went by amazingly fast. I WISH the final scroll of dates and events had been translated. It appeared to be a timeline of some sort. That was very disappointing. Definitely a really good movie and makes me want to know more. Like how did his poems survive?
Absolutely beautiful story of a beautiful friendship. Uplifting and heartbreaking all at the same time. LOVED it. A nice take on the Cyrano de Bergerac tale.
adorable lovely funny romance.
As did this one in Two Weeks. http://mydramalist.com/people/5393-lee-chae-mi
But I said before you could probably go on indefinitely. I know there are others, but my old head won't dredge them out right now. The pool is deep with these tiny thespians and their abilities amaze.