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I love a good show about young people fighting for love.
This show was sooo good.
It had a really nice fresh story. I mean, when was the last time you watched a show about teenagers protecting and fighting for love, and I don't mean fighting for their relationship with someone, but fighting for love in general and fighting for love for all.
The last episode, when they all got together to try and ban the rule, was beautiful. I also really, really like the lead couple, they are so cute. As for the antagonists, in the end I felt empathy towards them (however, not the professor, sorry dude you practically raped a student, no empathy for you and your hard life).
I like how with all the drama and gossip, and some sex scenes (which could've been avoided but that's just my opinion), they still made room for important lessons, like how not to fall into self-hatred, and that falling in love, even with the wrong person, is not a bad thing. For example, one of the characters who fell in love with this dude who ended up being an asshole, she still didn't regret falling in love.
I also really loved the soundtrack. I wanted to Shazam every song. And ofc, the cinematography was very nice. I loveddd some of the shots. Idk how to explain it, but I feel like for the first time I could really connect the shots to the plot and to the vibe of the scene and how the characters felt. This is usually the goal with cinematography and maybe it did happen multiple times before with other stuff I watched, but this time I feel like I could truly notice it. The shots were beautiful. This was also the first time I started paying attention to editing. I wasn’t a huge fan of it in every scene but there were some good moments.
Furthermore, I loved the lead actress's facial expressions. Idk if that was intentional on the director's side or if that's just her way of acting, but I found it very nice and fresh since all the other actors had numb faces for most of the time. With the other actors/characters it’s like the only way to see emotions in their faces was if they were having a breakdown or sth. With her, we saw everything. Joy, sadness, fear, love, anger, worry, shame. All of it.
This was my first j-drama, and it’s much different from k-dramas, so for fun, here are some differences I've noticed:
1. The actors have actual faces. Like they have texture. Their faces are real, raw. The older actors have wrinkles. Nothing is hidden or photoshopped compared to a lot of k-dramas I've seen.
2. It has a faster pace, much easier to follow but that could also just be the plot.
3. The cliffhangers I was left on in this specific show were very good. Enough to make me wonder what happens next, but not enough to make me obsess and binge the whole show in one day.
It had a really nice fresh story. I mean, when was the last time you watched a show about teenagers protecting and fighting for love, and I don't mean fighting for their relationship with someone, but fighting for love in general and fighting for love for all.
The last episode, when they all got together to try and ban the rule, was beautiful. I also really, really like the lead couple, they are so cute. As for the antagonists, in the end I felt empathy towards them (however, not the professor, sorry dude you practically raped a student, no empathy for you and your hard life).
I like how with all the drama and gossip, and some sex scenes (which could've been avoided but that's just my opinion), they still made room for important lessons, like how not to fall into self-hatred, and that falling in love, even with the wrong person, is not a bad thing. For example, one of the characters who fell in love with this dude who ended up being an asshole, she still didn't regret falling in love.
I also really loved the soundtrack. I wanted to Shazam every song. And ofc, the cinematography was very nice. I loveddd some of the shots. Idk how to explain it, but I feel like for the first time I could really connect the shots to the plot and to the vibe of the scene and how the characters felt. This is usually the goal with cinematography and maybe it did happen multiple times before with other stuff I watched, but this time I feel like I could truly notice it. The shots were beautiful. This was also the first time I started paying attention to editing. I wasn’t a huge fan of it in every scene but there were some good moments.
Furthermore, I loved the lead actress's facial expressions. Idk if that was intentional on the director's side or if that's just her way of acting, but I found it very nice and fresh since all the other actors had numb faces for most of the time. With the other actors/characters it’s like the only way to see emotions in their faces was if they were having a breakdown or sth. With her, we saw everything. Joy, sadness, fear, love, anger, worry, shame. All of it.
This was my first j-drama, and it’s much different from k-dramas, so for fun, here are some differences I've noticed:
1. The actors have actual faces. Like they have texture. Their faces are real, raw. The older actors have wrinkles. Nothing is hidden or photoshopped compared to a lot of k-dramas I've seen.
2. It has a faster pace, much easier to follow but that could also just be the plot.
3. The cliffhangers I was left on in this specific show were very good. Enough to make me wonder what happens next, but not enough to make me obsess and binge the whole show in one day.
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