My guess....he will search out her first true love only to find out that it was him. Yeah this is going to be just one big tear jerker. I hope though that the quality of this movie will be higher than Fragrance, since YEH is in it.
Great Review. Again. I went in to this drama not expecting much. In fact, thinking it will be one of those run of the mill, cliche scenario dramas, with chaebol jerks preying on sweet innocents. And Surprise. That is exactly what it is. A completely predictable story, with cliche scenarios I've seen 100 times. But. I am so hooked on this drama. And it's the people in it. Every one of them as individuals are interesting, relatable, and portrayed realistically, with really good acting and a surprisingly good script. There are little of the hysterics so prevalent in these types of dramas. And all of the bad guys have moments of doubt, tiny glimpses of 'reasons' behind some of their bad behaviors. I detest dramas with one dimensional bad guys where the writers spend all their time thinking up yet another vicious thing for them to torment our leads with every week. Here we get to see the little successes as our girls fight to first find their way in the new world of freedom and then see their strength as they fight back. No cowering, subservient, poor me girls these!! I love how Soo In won't take any crap off that family. How she doesn't pussyfoot around and cower in front of them. She gives it right back at them and says what should be said to them. Unbelievably refreshing in drama today! I look forward every week to this show. I am SO HAPPY we get to have 36 episodes with them. I think I'm going to love it!
couldn't get past the first 4 episodes. Not my kind of show or humor. Too corny for me. I was really disappointed too, because I just love Hong Ki and wanted to be supportive. Hopefully his next one will be more my taste? :(
Liked Antique Bakery, watched it long ago, and watched Girlfriend based on your recommendation. More than I thought it would be. Very cute, sweet movie. Memories is coming up on my Netflix list. Looking forward to it!
Wonderful. If I weren't already watching and madly madly in love with this show, I would start now. If YOU aren't watching START NOW!
Every moment I am watching this show I feel my insides are ready to burst. So much frustration, so many roadblocks put in the way of our heroes....I want to leap into the screen and punch our 'bad guys'. Yet, in each program I am so proud of how each of them in their own way continue their struggle to succeed. And how, even under the horrid weight of all the bigotry and put downs, their own sense of inadequacy, the continual realization that they are trapped in a life in a cube struggling against all odds for survival, there are still those small successes that give our heroes, and us, those few shining moments telling us that all is not lost and that through their own efforts and strengths, they can and will succeed. It's not a superhero show, but it is full of everyday lives of everyday people who survive by their own heroic efforts. It's a show we can all empathize with because virtually every one of us has experienced their own versions of it.
Also, every moment I am watching this show I continue to marvel that I am so passionately involved in the lives of these young people. This is a show set in an office environment, filled with dialogue about office procedures, and rarely leaves the confines of the office walls. Yet, each week, I am totally glued to my screen watching these 'Everyday Lives' being lived. It is a testament to the original material, the screenwriter, the director, and the marvelous actors in this that this show can achieve this kind of devotion. I am so happy to hear that it is getting great ratings and continues to climb in popularity every week.
Again...wonderful review! I hope many people give this show a chance and find themselves amazed also at how watching everyday people live everyday lives can be as thrilling and fulfilling to watch as any superhero blockbuster, or a melodrama!
Excellent recap! You have certainly seen into the heart of this story and what the writer is trying to tell us. I love the format of it. Every 2 episodes is a new adventure. And in each episode another small piece of who our main characters are and what has set them on their lives' paths are slowly revealed to us. I too hope that this does not follow in the steps of Reset. Reset was excellent until the last 3 episodes, then seemed to lose steam. Still, it was a show worth watching and so well done for those first 7 or 8 episodes. Kang Ye Won, to me, seems to have no purpose in this story but some female eye candy. I don't think it's really her fault, but the writer's. I just can't figure out why her character is even there. She does nothing to move the story forward at all.
Thanks for the recap/review! Good job synopsizing everything!
Not an original idea or love story, but a perfectly and beautifully written and acted love story that breaks your heart with its quiet and exquisite writing and acting. Not sure I've ever seen anything better done. Lovely statement regarding the importance of organ donation. A show everyone should watch! The 2 leads in this were picture and tone perfect in their parts. May be the most believable love story you ever watch. There were so many things in their relationship that 'should' have made it impossible. But anyone who becomes part of their story cannot help but completely believe in true and fated love. I loved the fact that there were none of the fake makjang tropes so prevalent in dramas. Everything about this story felt REAL.
Just finished Confession. It's about as perfect a crime noir movie as you can get. It has everything that's to love in this genre. It starts out very slowly, building the relationship between these 3 men, showing them, warts and all, with all the complexities of their lives and their relationships. Lifelong friends, their youth is marred by an episode early in the movie that leaves questions in their minds that seem to haunt them and to have damaged them, yet, they desperately cling to their brotherhood with such tenacity you can see how stretched thin that relationship is...without quite knowing why.
Half way through, all hell breaks loose and a plan that should never have been started takes an horrifically terrible turn for the worst. The consequences are heartbreaking to watch as minute by minute we see the disintegration of the relationship and the tragic end. Beautifully acted, gorgeously produced and filmed, the very example of what is great about Korean film of this kind. It's the kind of movie that leaves me euphoric for the talent and pure awesomeness that Korean film continues to produce so effortlessly! If there is any drawback at all to this movie, for me, it's that even as terrifically done as this movie is, and as highly as I would recommend it and rate it, it is pretty much like many of the others that I have seen. That only means a .5 reduction in my rating though! I loved it and, if you like this kind of movie, I highly recommend it. It will draw you in to the lives of these 3 and you will ache for the pain they inflict on themselves. I cannot get over how well these films can build such relationships, even in 2 short hours, that can leave you so emotionally drained from how involved you become in them. One of the best ever as far as that part of the movie was concerned. 9.5/10.
This show is the second installment of the revenge trilogy by director Park Chan-hong and writer Kim Ji-woo, after Resurrection in 2005 and followed by Shark in 2013. I don't think the stories have any common thread as far as characters, but the concept in this is very strong. Good and bad are never finite. And what we believe we know and think we have seen may not be what really happened. Also, the sins of your youth will return to you, or, as in this case, continue to haunt and change you. It is beautifully done, complex characters with all kinds of warts and all kinds of right and wrong. You 'know' what is going on from the first, but never fully and even though I am 12 episodes in on a 20 episode show, every episode brings yet another revelation and another realization for our antagonists that the person they are chasing for vengeance is not who or what they think they are. There will be a sad ending for this, absolutely. But, as long as it brings resolution and peace to the 2 men whose lives have been lived in such pain and agony and loneliness, it will be a 'good' ending. I have cried many tears in every single episode so far. I hate sad shows, but this one is just gripping my heart and mind. The photography is very very evocative. Many references to Rodin and Faust, the Gates of Hell, Dante's Inferno. The escalator scenes an obvious reference. The cameraman is over using the Hitchcock's Guide to Camera Work, but it still is chilling and I still haven't gotten tired of it. It's just beautiful to look at.
Every moment I am watching this show I feel my insides are ready to burst. So much frustration, so many roadblocks put in the way of our heroes....I want to leap into the screen and punch our 'bad guys'. Yet, in each program I am so proud of how each of them in their own way continue their struggle to succeed. And how, even under the horrid weight of all the bigotry and put downs, their own sense of inadequacy, the continual realization that they are trapped in a life in a cube struggling against all odds for survival, there are still those small successes that give our heroes, and us, those few shining moments telling us that all is not lost and that through their own efforts and strengths, they can and will succeed. It's not a superhero show, but it is full of everyday lives of everyday people who survive by their own heroic efforts. It's a show we can all empathize with because virtually every one of us has experienced their own versions of it.
Also, every moment I am watching this show I continue to marvel that I am so passionately involved in the lives of these young people. This is a show set in an office environment, filled with dialogue about office procedures, and rarely leaves the confines of the office walls. Yet, each week, I am totally glued to my screen watching these 'Everyday Lives' being lived. It is a testament to the original material, the screenwriter, the director, and the marvelous actors in this that this show can achieve this kind of devotion. I am so happy to hear that it is getting great ratings and continues to climb in popularity every week.
Again...wonderful review! I hope many people give this show a chance and find themselves amazed also at how watching everyday people live everyday lives can be as thrilling and fulfilling to watch as any superhero blockbuster, or a melodrama!
Thanks for the recap/review! Good job synopsizing everything!
Half way through, all hell breaks loose and a plan that should never have been started takes an horrifically terrible turn for the worst. The consequences are heartbreaking to watch as minute by minute we see the disintegration of the relationship and the tragic end. Beautifully acted, gorgeously produced and filmed, the very example of what is great about Korean film of this kind. It's the kind of movie that leaves me euphoric for the talent and pure awesomeness that Korean film continues to produce so effortlessly! If there is any drawback at all to this movie, for me, it's that even as terrifically done as this movie is, and as highly as I would recommend it and rate it, it is pretty much like many of the others that I have seen. That only means a .5 reduction in my rating though! I loved it and, if you like this kind of movie, I highly recommend it. It will draw you in to the lives of these 3 and you will ache for the pain they inflict on themselves. I cannot get over how well these films can build such relationships, even in 2 short hours, that can leave you so emotionally drained from how involved you become in them. One of the best ever as far as that part of the movie was concerned. 9.5/10.