I really loved this movie and was gonna give it a 10/10....... until like the last 20 minutes of the movie.
I think the movie should have just ended with a scene of her realizing to like herself with the curly hair and that there is someone who likes her that way instead of changing her appearance for some guy.. I would have ended it with something like after she learns she doesn't like the other guy/learns to love herself, we get a dramatic run scene where she runs to find the ML and confesses to him.
The 30 minutes left of the film felt like a mess or rushed. It's mentioned earlier on that the ML and her mother moved to the smaller town to move away from her abusive husband. It's not mentioned if she got a divorce or not. But the plot that splits up the leads after they became a couple was that his mom went to Seoul suddenly and the ML receives a call that his mother is in the hospital. It's implied that she was beaten by her abusive husband who is in the hospital room. He somewhat threatens his son to come back home. His mother tells her son they may have to move to America with her sister to escape. So like why doesn't she consult with a lawyer first tho.
The FL goes to Seoul to the hospital and overhears the conversation with him and his mother about moving and sees him crying about not wanting to move. She later sends a message on his pager to break up with him so it's easier for him to move. There's a time skip maybe like 1 to 2 years later. She's on the beach and receives a call from him and he appears behind her on the beach living happily but how. They reunite and movie ends.
It's never explained what happened to his abusive father and how the ML returned. So all that was to split up the couple so they could have a happy reunion for the end. If they had just cut the length of the movie or end it with her learning to love herself with the curly hair and confess to the ML, it would have been a great movie for me.
Its just missing some details like why his mother went to seoul and how he managed to get back to busan when they…
But you have to admit, that was bad writing towards the end of the movie. He returns from America probably and is living happier. But they never explain how he and his mother dealt with their abusive husband/father. That character was the big reason why the leads split up and then skip over it like nothing emotional happened to the ML. There were better ways to have them split up then reunite for the final scene of the movie than this.
Did I miss the scene where they mentioned how they resolved the problem with Yun-seok's dad at the end? Or did…
No you didn't miss anything. I have no idea what the writers were doing to put in that sudden plot near the end and no explanation to how it was resolved. The writing towards the end was so bad I kept telling myself yikes. It was all rushed with the stuff about his abusive father, him leaving to America?, and him returning happy now.
So far I'm really enjoying how the FL is flirty/teasing with the ML. She's strong while he's currently weak. I wish we'd get more dramas with this flirty type of a FL
The FL was just unbearable and awful. She didn't bother to check her phone which was a call from her daughter who was kidnapped because she was busy negotiating a drug deal for cash with the chaebol. Then Kim Young Kwang's character literally went to save her daughter from being killed. She did not deserve to be a mother after this. I never understood how people were shipping the leads together.
I had this drama on hold for couple years and coincidentally enough the next episode I had to watch was episode 14 where the reveal happen. As you mentioned in your review, I do agree with you about the way she reacted to the truth made me upset. Now I wish I didn't try to finish this drama again .
I think this is an unpopular opinion but I did not enjoy the romance in this show and wished there wasn't any. I would have been fine with slight romance or just teasing it. I also didn't like the team/family aspect of the company. Then the biggest issue I have that made me drop the drama was how very annoying the Pyo family company were.
I can agree a bit with others on how the last couple episodes wrapped up. I think the main villain should have…
Something I don't quite like is not giving us a resolution to Ma Ri's character goal. Her grandfather sent her to Ji Hoon's office to learn and work under Ji Hoon for a short amount of time. They decided to throw in the plot late where Ji Hoon leaves them to i guess clear up his mind. We get a time skip and she is already back working as a lawyer under her grandfather's company. So like the result of her character growth felt weak.
I can agree a bit with others on how the last couple episodes wrapped up. I think the main villain should have been introduced couple episodes earlier. They made the killer guy a joke after his introduction. He killed the MC's fiancee and a ceo but then becomes weak/afraid of the MC. Ji Hoon quit as a prosecutor many years ago I believe now but once the culprits have been caught, he gets to be hired again and is the prosecutor on the case now. I didn't understand much why he needed to disappear and take a long break.
I'm kind of surprised there is a mixed reaction to the couple of episodes focusing on the MC's backstory and serious…
It told us the reason why he charges 1000 won for his clients. So his fiancee opened up that office and I believe her goal was to help any people for a cheap price. After she died, Ji Hoon decided to live out her dreams and be the one dollar lawyer there. At first I thought that maybe the reason he charges 1000 won for his clients could be in his past, 1000 won was a huge impact in a certain event for him. Maybe his family was poor and one of his parents was in trouble needing a lawyer but he only had 1000 won. So he would promise to help any clients for a low fee of 1000 won.
One thing I wonder after the backstory is how does Ji Hoon become this cold hardworking person into a funny guy.
wtf was that endimggg??? such a lame way to end things,
It was a callback to the first episode where the MC arrives to the scene of a client who is in a crisis needing his service of the one dollar lawyer. What were you expecting?
Ep 8: I'm stunned. These past couple episodes about the past of Ji Hoon as a prosecutor was breathtaking. Yes he was a different person. He was much more of a cold person who barely smiled just was a hard worker. Until lawyer Lee Joo Young entered his life. She has become maybe my favorite guest character of a drama that played a wonderful important role to the MC's past. I've never been this moved by a guest character and the romance with the ML. This was all short term!
The hints were there that she would have died in the past because she's not around anymore and Ji Hoon visited a grave earlier on in the drama. I was worried they had her die in some random car crash but thankfully not and she died to the schemes of the likely main villain of the drama. So she dies in a train when the assassin probably stabs her even with people around. Ok some parts I find kind of ridiculous leading up to this. Earlier at the law firm as she was gathering her stuff to leave, she bumped into a mystery guy and they both drop their files. They both had the same style of envelope and they picked up the wrong one. Hours later, the mystery man goes to meet with another mystery man to give him that envelope of what's inside until he opens to find it's the wrong one. So he sends someone to retrieve his envelope from her. Guess what, hours have passed by and Joo Young didn't open the envelope too until after that guy opened his.
She opens it and is shocked. She calls Ji Hoon to meet up. The assassin sneaks into her office to find the envelope only for it not to be here. She seems to be far away from her office by now and is in a train. But the assassin made it inside the train too!? I know it's for the plot but if she just opens her envelope right after picking up fron the floor from the mix up, she wouldn't die. Because the other guy didn't bother to check his envelope of the right stuff until hours later. She would have met up with Ji Hoon with no worries.
So I really enjoyed this backstory. I admired the acting of Namkoong Min when he was crying. I like the small details of his eyes being red for a bit longer in the episode. He's going through the grief.
The 30 minutes left of the film felt like a mess or rushed. It's mentioned earlier on that the ML and her mother moved to the smaller town to move away from her abusive husband. It's not mentioned if she got a divorce or not. But the plot that splits up the leads after they became a couple was that his mom went to Seoul suddenly and the ML receives a call that his mother is in the hospital. It's implied that she was beaten by her abusive husband who is in the hospital room. He somewhat threatens his son to come back home. His mother tells her son they may have to move to America with her sister to escape. So like why doesn't she consult with a lawyer first tho.
The FL goes to Seoul to the hospital and overhears the conversation with him and his mother about moving and sees him crying about not wanting to move. She later sends a message on his pager to break up with him so it's easier for him to move. There's a time skip maybe like 1 to 2 years later. She's on the beach and receives a call from him and he appears behind her on the beach living happily but how. They reunite and movie ends.
It's never explained what happened to his abusive father and how the ML returned. So all that was to split up the couple so they could have a happy reunion for the end. If they had just cut the length of the movie or end it with her learning to love herself with the curly hair and confess to the ML, it would have been a great movie for me.
One thing I wonder after the backstory is how does Ji Hoon become this cold hardworking person into a funny guy.
The hints were there that she would have died in the past because she's not around anymore and Ji Hoon visited a grave earlier on in the drama. I was worried they had her die in some random car crash but thankfully not and she died to the schemes of the likely main villain of the drama. So she dies in a train when the assassin probably stabs her even with people around. Ok some parts I find kind of ridiculous leading up to this. Earlier at the law firm as she was gathering her stuff to leave, she bumped into a mystery guy and they both drop their files. They both had the same style of envelope and they picked up the wrong one. Hours later, the mystery man goes to meet with another mystery man to give him that envelope of what's inside until he opens to find it's the wrong one. So he sends someone to retrieve his envelope from her. Guess what, hours have passed by and Joo Young didn't open the envelope too until after that guy opened his.
She opens it and is shocked. She calls Ji Hoon to meet up. The assassin sneaks into her office to find the envelope only for it not to be here. She seems to be far away from her office by now and is in a train. But the assassin made it inside the train too!? I know it's for the plot but if she just opens her envelope right after picking up fron the floor from the mix up, she wouldn't die. Because the other guy didn't bother to check his envelope of the right stuff until hours later. She would have met up with Ji Hoon with no worries.
So I really enjoyed this backstory. I admired the acting of Namkoong Min when he was crying. I like the small details of his eyes being red for a bit longer in the episode. He's going through the grief.