I'm not sure, but this seems to be a short film made as a safety first video. Perhaps by the company shown at the end of the credits??? It's a good one if so. It doesn't seem to have much point and seems oddly aimless through the first 4 of the 5 episodes. Then 5 comes to kick you in the gut. The link below posted by Sasu on 08/15/15 appears to be the only place that has English subs for episode 5,btw.
Loved it! This is an absolutely adorable older drama which just became available on VIKI. I fell in love with Lee Sung Jae in Warm and Cozy (where he playing the older brother who fell in love with the lady diver). He is cute and funny and sexy as all get out. He was all of that in this. I wouldn't normally give a 9 to a drama like this, but this one just hit me at the right time. Light, lovely, great balance of happy and angst, realistic dialogues, realistic situations. With the current drama trend of show after show after show following a standard pattern of which person is going to end up with who and the seeming rule written in stone that no marriage can be broken and they must always get back together, this was a big change. I guess I was just in the right mood for this. I marathoned it over 2 days and need to go get some sleep now. I'm exhausted...but very happy. I like the cast very much. All of them were very good in their parts.
Lovely, sweet romance. The movie is definitely unique in premise and, for its 2+ hour length, flies by. The cast was remarkable, the production beautiful to look at. It's purely a romantic story, and only lightly touches on any kind of reality as far as this kind of situation could create...but then, where is the reality? No such thing could happen! Still, it makes you wonder. What would the reality really be that this movie could not delve into? It's one thing for a woman to be sleeping with a different person every night, but there is also the fact that, in a hyper conservative, sexually repressed, ethnically closed culture like Korea, the fact that half those people are either the same sex or of a different race or religion would present even more difficulties with that audience. But I chose not to think about that. As long as you only look at it as a fairy tale love story, this is a wonderful, magical movie acted by a lot of lovely beautiful stars. Han Hyo-Joo was just beautiful in this. It was certainly 'convenient'? that her romantic moments were with the most lovely of those co-stars.
Dark twisted tale done in 5 acts, much like a play. Very 'script-like' in its presentation. The format makes the show somewhat jarring, but that also feeds into the whole atmosphere of it too. The first 4 acts were frustrating to me in that I could not understand the intentional damage inflicted on these young children by this mother. The final act explains that when it shows her as evil as the man who killed her child. Within seconds of that meeting, you know exactly what happened to her child and that both he and she will bear the full burden of it. A good character study. For me, there were some script and direction problems that were irritants, but some of that is probably more due to my lack of seeing where they were trying to go with the story in some places. Her prancing around on dirt roads in high heels and a skirt so tight she could barely walk, all the while supposedly planning to kill someone was idiotic looking as all get out. Definitely a very dark look at a lot of disgusting people. Each of those girls was irreparably damaged by the murder, which was then compounded by inattentive parents, a culture of not understanding the need for these children to have professional intervention and lots of love and attention from their family, and, most of all, the pressure from a sick, twisted woman who reaped what she sowed...all at the cost of an innocent life, brutally, sickly ended. Yes, a twisted ending...for 2 very twisted people.
Really well done. Much better than last season and much much darker too. I love the format of new cases every couple episodes. I hope, if they continue to up the quality like this, that we will see a season 3!
It takes great will power for me to watch these kind of films/dramas anymore. I applaud your strength of will to endure what you did getting through all of these. They will weigh on you long after you watch and that's why I limit them to extremely sparingly and eliminate dramas with their interminable angst from my list completely. The Crucible is one I am still trying to work up my courage to endure. One Day.
Sweet heartbreaking story of fated love. This is very short, 11 10 minute segments. They do a good job squeezing a lot of story and a lot of love into those short minutes. It was great to see John Hoon again and hear him singing the love song at the end.
First off, I really loved this drama. In fact, I dropped all the ones I've been watching and marathoned this one over 3 days I was so addicted to it and the characters. It was a charming story...but...it did have it's problems. For ME, the irritating thoughtless ex-husband and his loud thoughtless wife scenario, which were the cliche comic relief for this story, wore out their cuteness very quickly. After a while I just wanted to dump both of them. WAY too much screen time for that family. Also WAY too much time for the monotonous monotone acting of Seo Ji Suk and Hong Soo Hyun. The lack of chemistry and woodenness of their performance was appalling. Considering Lee Sang Yeob, who was absolutely terrific in this, was the purported lead, they spent less time on resolving his story line than everyone else's! The Elders' story was a shining star in this and was absolutely lovely and tear inducing to watch. The ending was flat and too fast....as is way way way too typical of the vast majority of Kdrama and long kdrama in particular. 50 hours of waiting, and we get that!?? Beyond frustrating. I would even have been able to overlook the other cliche...the time jump...if they could have bothered to close out his future for us. I wavered mightily on the rating as I really think it deserves an 8 or an 8.5, but I find it very hard to rate a drama that high when it fails to deliver on several levels, but, most especially, for the leads. I'm presuming it's a cultural taboo kind of thing...but geez, give me a break. Everyone is going to be okay with a girl who almost broke up a marriage, but it's a horror that a guy marries a girl who is the sister of the guy who marries his ex girlfriend? That's insane! 7.5
You know how there are those dramas that really shouldn't, and you don't think they will, but they just hit that sweet spot? This is one of those for me. I did something I have not done since my first days of Kdrama almost 4 years ago. I stayed up until 5:30 a.m. and marathoned the whole thing. I loved it. It was a perfectly fun, easy going Kdrama. Loved the music, though some of it was horribly repetitive after about the 6th time...though I never ever will get enough of Million Roses and really liked Sarang Sarang Sarang. The video quality was, unfortunately, pretty rough on DF, but it's also older. Her wardrobe was great! Loved her Character! All kinds of moronic comments about how she was ugly, cried too much, dressed inappropriately. It amazes me how ignorant some people are of who the character they are watching is and what kind of heart wrenching emotions they enduring. Just go with it! And wow...her choice of men. My life should be so good! Both of those guys are big favorites of mine. It's a definite rewatch for me when I need some escape time. It's not a 10 or even a 9 as far as production + acting + script + all those things that push a drama into the superb realm....but it is high for me just for pure escapism. I'm gonna squeeze 8.5 for it just for the enjoyment I got out of it.
All Greats. Seen all but one Ong Bak, which has been on my list forever. And I own 8 of them. Seven Samurai I have watched more than 20 times. It's my #1 on this list, but they were all my #1's while I was watching them!
Terrific writing, superb acting, Kim Myung Min is just brilliant. I didn't rate it higher because I got tired of the trial business in the middle and found it rather contrived. Also the political maneuvering was so ott petty it just didn't ring true to me. I think it was greatly exaggerated for drama affect. Still...the final episode was a masterpiece. Cried my eyes out!
What a sad, beautiful, happy movie. I hope and pray that the nightmarish, medieval conditions of this hospital will someday be wiped off the face of the earth. It is heartbreaking to think that these fragile people must endure such cruel incarceration when they already live in such fear. A very sweet story told wonderfully. Very uplifting in its overall message. As usual Yeo Jin Goo gives such an incredible performance. He puts his heart and soul into everything he does. Amazing the amount of talent that young man has. I can't even imagine what he will be like in the years to come, but hope I will be around to see it. Lee Min Ki again gives an intense and emotional performance. Well written, great supporting cast, beautiful cinematography. Definitely worth watching. It will fill up your heart.
Semi Spoiler? If you aren't pretty sure going in what the ending of this is going to be, you aren't paying attention.
Odd Movie. Cinematography was lovely. The scenario is all too familiar with a modern day Cinderella type fairy tale gone wrong. The mechanics of how this movie was put together were so jarring in the beginning. It seemed to go from scene to scene like cut outs from different movies. Scene 1: Nice Girl in Unbearable Position Receives Magic Perfect Proposal. Scene 2: Cinderella Makeover After Capitulation To Perfect Proposal. Scene 3: Feelings Develop and People are Watching. Scene 4: Show Everyone What a Cruel Man the Old Guy is. ETC. There was no connectivity between these scenes, no sense of character or time building. We are talking about a scenario that would take weeks, if not months to enact. This man is still a powerful and intelligent man. It's made abundantly clear he trusts no one, but we are supposed to believe he decides to marry a girl within days of meeting her? Without doing his own background check, since it was obvious he did not trust his son in the least? Even for a fairy tale this is absurd! Or was he really that unaware? Was he perhaps tired of the non-life he was leading, the machinations that constantly swirled around him, the coming revenge that he knew he deserved and was tired of fighting? Or that by his own death he trapped his own son in his own revenge plot? A father who would entice his own son to kill him to escape a life he was tired of living? A son who would kill his own father? A match made in hell? One wonders.
Yet, as the story moves into it's final act, and the inevitable finale arrives, and the allegorical tale underneath all of it becomes clearer, I found myself feeling a little kinder towards the storyteller. As a cautionary tale to all the Cinderellas, Snow Whites, Sleeping Beauties out there, it was a smoothly delivered message...most particularly in the final scene between our two leads. As her Fairy Godmother he had an agenda she ignored, as her Prince Charming he awoke something he saw in her that she did not. As they looked at each other through that window, I think he did have regrets, but used his words to send her into the world awakened.... stronger and more wary of the other Prince Charmings in the world. To me her smile contained no hate, nor anger, but a hint of sadness and a lot of irony as she looked at him trapped in that mirror, looking out at her, knowing what he had said to her had more truth about herself in it than she was willing to see. And that, good or evil, he was the one to awaken her to it. And for that I did shed a small imaginary tear.
I am a big fan of Yoo Yeon Seok. His Bad Guy roles are chock full of richness. You so desperately want him not to be bad. And his best roles are those where he has those layers of Is He Good or Is He Bad? I really want him to play the good guy, but honestly, he is so much better at being bad it's hard not to want more roles like that for him. He shines...darkly...in them.
The extras in this were entertaining...like the mice and the birds in our fairy tales, they were there to help rescue our princess in the end.
Terrific movie. So relatable to everyone. This man had an amazing story to tell, yet his children and grandchildren will probably never realize what heartache and hardship he went through. By the time they think to ask, to care to know, to realize how important it is to ask those questions, it will be too late and he will be gone. In this we can all relate. Those of us who have lost our parents and all the history and life that went with them...all the memories forever lost, all the happiness and sadness of their lives that we could have shared with them in their stories...all too late. It reminded me of my mom and all that I lost when she left us too early. I cried a lot in this...it is a tearjerker for sure, but just a wonderful wonderful movie.
Odd Movie. Cinematography was lovely. The scenario is all too familiar with a modern day Cinderella type fairy tale gone wrong. The mechanics of how this movie was put together were so jarring in the beginning. It seemed to go from scene to scene like cut outs from different movies. Scene 1: Nice Girl in Unbearable Position Receives Magic Perfect Proposal. Scene 2: Cinderella Makeover After Capitulation To Perfect Proposal. Scene 3: Feelings Develop and People are Watching. Scene 4: Show Everyone What a Cruel Man the Old Guy is. ETC. There was no connectivity between these scenes, no sense of character or time building. We are talking about a scenario that would take weeks, if not months to enact. This man is still a powerful and intelligent man. It's made abundantly clear he trusts no one, but we are supposed to believe he decides to marry a girl within days of meeting her? Without doing his own background check, since it was obvious he did not trust his son in the least? Even for a fairy tale this is absurd! Or was he really that unaware? Was he perhaps tired of the non-life he was leading, the machinations that constantly swirled around him, the coming revenge that he knew he deserved and was tired of fighting? Or that by his own death he trapped his own son in his own revenge plot? A father who would entice his own son to kill him to escape a life he was tired of living? A son who would kill his own father? A match made in hell? One wonders.
Yet, as the story moves into it's final act, and the inevitable finale arrives, and the allegorical tale underneath all of it becomes clearer, I found myself feeling a little kinder towards the storyteller. As a cautionary tale to all the Cinderellas, Snow Whites, Sleeping Beauties out there, it was a smoothly delivered message...most particularly in the final scene between our two leads. As her Fairy Godmother he had an agenda she ignored, as her Prince Charming he awoke something he saw in her that she did not. As they looked at each other through that window, I think he did have regrets, but used his words to send her into the world awakened.... stronger and more wary of the other Prince Charmings in the world. To me her smile contained no hate, nor anger, but a hint of sadness and a lot of irony as she looked at him trapped in that mirror, looking out at her, knowing what he had said to her had more truth about herself in it than she was willing to see. And that, good or evil, he was the one to awaken her to it. And for that I did shed a small imaginary tear.
I am a big fan of Yoo Yeon Seok. His Bad Guy roles are chock full of richness. You so desperately want him not to be bad. And his best roles are those where he has those layers of Is He Good or Is He Bad? I really want him to play the good guy, but honestly, he is so much better at being bad it's hard not to want more roles like that for him. He shines...darkly...in them.
The extras in this were entertaining...like the mice and the birds in our fairy tales, they were there to help rescue our princess in the end.