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Simple yet Epic

Other (awesome) reviews on this site have gone into great detail. I’ll be brief:

This show depicts the extraordinariness of the ordinary.

Across multiple generations, these characters live normal, simple lives, that are (of course) anything but simple, or ordinary.

So beautiful. So real. So painful. So full of joy.

I love everything about this.

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That is where I wanted my review to end, so you can stop reading now. However, I have to hit 500 characters, so let me just praise IU by saying I’ve loved her in everything I’ve seen her in.

My Mister and now When Life Gives You Tangerines are both on my list of most loved, most moving, most thought-provoking K-dramas of ALL TIME.

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Why I hated this kind of great movie.

There are many positive comments about how this is such an amazing piece of cinema. Yes, it is graphic and not for the faint of heart. I think the two male leads were pretty great. Lee Byung Hun as Kim Soo Hyun was good as the "good" guy, and Choi Min Shik was awesome at making Jang Gyung Chul one of the most despicable, disgusting, terrible characters ever.

That said, there is one facet of this movie that just turned me off to the whole thing. SPOILER AHEAD:



Soo Hyun puts a tracking device in Gyung Chul and lets him go. Oh, is he going to track him through the woods or some deserted area and just keep messing with him? No. He lets him go right where he is, to go and offend on a bunch more people. I believe he killed at least 3 people after Soo Hyun let him go. Those are the most egregious. But that poor nurse will also never be the same. Soo Hyun could have done many different things to torture that a$$h0l3. But letting him go like he did just ruined the movie for me. Soo Hyun turns out to be a terrible character as well. I know he didn't want that, or intend for that to happen, but the fact is that the baddie ruined a bunch more lives because of the way Soo Hyun decided to handle it. Sooooooo lame.

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