WONYOUNG ♡
↪ Hapa Kristin (Mar. 2024)
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The "Femme Fatale" trope and parallelism between Korean dramas and Italian cinema
So I was watching The Devil Judge and I noticed an interesting parallelism with an Italian movie I watched when I was a child.
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"The Devil Judge" (2021) ft. Jang Young-Nam, South Korea
"Malèna" (2000) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore ft. Monica Bellucci, Italy
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“We're very lucky, aren't we? We're a complete mess, but our sons are so kind.”
NOBODY KNOWS (2020) - EP14
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CRASH COURSE IN ROMANCE
GENRES: Comedy, Romance
SUMMARY: What could the most popular private academy teacher in Gangnam and a no-nonsense banchan shop proprietor have in common? More than either of them ever bargained for.
THIS SHOW HAS EVERYTHING: Banchan (obvs), minimalist penthouses, lion documentaries, quaint blouses, insane tiger moms, handball memories, high school love triangles, pencil pouches, matricide, corruption, muderous metal balls, and regrets.
HOT TAKE: This is a much more nuanced show than the poster would make it seem. Each character contains earnest multitudes and watching them and their motivations play out was a joy to watch.
Is it weird to say that this show suffers from TOO MANY interesting characters? I wanted to know at least 30% more about all of them, but since there are only so many eps to go around, the mains got most of the story time.
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Cobweb (Geomijip), Jee-woon Kim (2023)
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DRAMA REVIEW I Crash Course in Romance (2023)
This drama has all of the right elements: a solid cast that delivers, good directing and an interesting subject matter. The story started strong, I was even on board with the murder mystery but, in the third part of the drama, the script started to loose its footing. No longer able to figure out what story were they telling.
In many ways, I feel there were several missed opportunity. Crash Course in Romance could have told a good and solid story commenting on society’s prejudices on what a family should be or look like. There was also plenty of room for a proper storyline about the mental health of students going trough an incredible amount of stress and how they coped. How the competitive mothers are willing to bully, adults and children alike, in order for their kids to get into university and their impossible expectations that directly impacted in every aspect of the kids’s well being. By the end of the last episode, male lead doesn’t see anything wrong about kids pushing themselves this hard, except when they collapse, which in my book that means very little character development. Male lead also suffers from half of the story of a eating disorder and we are supposed to just, what?, let it go? There’s never a proper follow up on it or how it was connected to the murder mystery that the drama concentrated most of its time with. A mystery that was resolved in one scene alone, rushed and swiftly under the rug. Almost like we didn’t spend fifteen of sixteen episodes trying to figure out what was happening with this particular storyline.
We only got proper real development and resolution about the issues regarding the kids and mothers, on the last episode, in a epilogue like montage showing us where each character was. The character growth, throughout the run of the drama, came there was came from the teens and the leads. Everything else was almost like an afterthought.
None of this means this is a bad or frustrating drama. On the contrary, despite its shortcomings, is a really fun story with lovable characters. I can recommend it for that alone: entertaining value.
Rating: 7/10
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The Veil. 9/10
Story: 10
Acting: 10🔥
Chemistry: 10
Comparable to: The K2 (kdrama) Healer (kdrama) ; Vagabond (kdrama)
There is one thing I’ve noticed with Namgoong Min. Usually every freaking drama he’s in is golden and that’s usually because of his acting and the choices of dramas he decides to be in. This one here is golden, probably my top favorite so far he’s been in and trust me it’s so hard to choose since there’s so many. Nonetheless this is an outstanding action thriller spy drama that kept me captivated throughout. With nicely placed twists, spot on writing, the writers were brilliant, just everything was perfect if your a fan of this genre.
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Sorry but if Kang Yohan is daddy, Cha Kyunghee is mommy- I don't make up the rules, they make the rules. I just follow them and oh why yes, mommy, please step on me holy fu-
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변신 (Metamorphosis) by Hong Seon Kim, 2019
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Jang Young Nam, Jeon Yeo Been and Krystal Jung at the Cannes. dear God you know i am bisexual already was this truly necessary
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THE APPLICATION COUNT HAS BEEN UPDATED.
+1 application
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they've been in a frame together for all of three seconds but i already know where this is going
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CHEER UP
GENRES: Mystery, Romance
SUMMARY: The cheer squad at Yonhee University is somehow both the most unpopular club on campus and the only club to have a handful of death curses plaguing it's past and present members.
THIS SHOW HAS EVERYTHING: Grumbling stomachs, expensive whiskey, noisy tassels, panic attacks, yakult saleswomen, mock exam scores, life-threatening pep rallys, part time jobs, troublesome ex boyfriends, rooftop stabbings, envelopes full of cash, cream buns, secret day-drinking, and economic class divides.
HOT TAKE: This show is a mediocre mystery story wrapped in a bland love triangle wrapped in a vanilla slice-of-life drama. It took until episode 15 to see any significant drama and even then, by ep 16 it was back to basics again.
Also, these young adults need to chill out--IT'S JUST A CHEER SQUAD!
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