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Idealistic in themes, realistic in presentation.
It’s truly a good and dark drama, but I am also truly not the target audience for it.
On one hand they went full realism in presenting really shocking and painful abuse. They were not holding back at all and it was sadly not just in the past. We got to see how “hurt people hurt people” as Haoran and Chihiro kept hurting each other (mostly Haoran hurting Chihiro) - none of them knew what healthy boundaries and relationships are.
On the other hand, they by all means went with “broken people making each other whole again” which is an extremely idealistic way of viewing the situation and has little to do with realism. And that mix of realism and idealism just did not work for me.
It’s a horrific story of how discrimination, lack of social acceptance and support system can degrade someone’s life, and how breaking off that vicious circle of unfavourable external circumstances often feels like an unachievable goal, until you find internal reason to make it happen. And I think Haoran and Chihiro became that reason for each other.
The acting was amazing, and it made watching the show that much harder. Poorly delivered trauma can be just entertaining angst, but well delivered pain just cuts you deeply. With that, it’s not a show you “enjoy” watching, but you do end up appreciating it.
Overall, I would probably recommend the drama, but at the end of the recommendation added a quick “sorry” for the pain and frustration it will cause to the person who’s about to watch it.
On one hand they went full realism in presenting really shocking and painful abuse. They were not holding back at all and it was sadly not just in the past. We got to see how “hurt people hurt people” as Haoran and Chihiro kept hurting each other (mostly Haoran hurting Chihiro) - none of them knew what healthy boundaries and relationships are.
On the other hand, they by all means went with “broken people making each other whole again” which is an extremely idealistic way of viewing the situation and has little to do with realism. And that mix of realism and idealism just did not work for me.
It’s a horrific story of how discrimination, lack of social acceptance and support system can degrade someone’s life, and how breaking off that vicious circle of unfavourable external circumstances often feels like an unachievable goal, until you find internal reason to make it happen. And I think Haoran and Chihiro became that reason for each other.
The acting was amazing, and it made watching the show that much harder. Poorly delivered trauma can be just entertaining angst, but well delivered pain just cuts you deeply. With that, it’s not a show you “enjoy” watching, but you do end up appreciating it.
Overall, I would probably recommend the drama, but at the end of the recommendation added a quick “sorry” for the pain and frustration it will cause to the person who’s about to watch it.
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