Post by TheBo on Aug 4, 2011 9:57:45 GMT -5
I have a few. Did we ever talk about the music in this show? I don't recall a single instance where I thought it was inappropriate. I especially liked the opening theme music; it felt like a tango to me, even though it's assuredly not. Weird.
I've seen another of this director's dramas (Life is Beautiful), which was in the vein of Who's My Love, and naturally enough, I adored it. That drama featured Kim Sang-joon (Joonpho) as a man who was tortured in life and love (only in a more comic way), as well as, playing his father, the man who played Joonpho's father (Choi Jung-hoon) as an oblivious, selfish old man descending into senility, who had a difficult relationship with this son. Sounds familiar. I recognized the director's style right off the bat, even before I knew it was him. He likes to frame shots with windows or bookshelves, for one thing. I like his work so far.
(LOL. I just looked him up. He also directed Who's My Love. I like him so much, I guess I'll have to marry him.)
I thought the elderly parents, without exception, were great. Absolutely not one wrong note among the lot. (I'm including Hwayoung's delusional mother here; she probably would hit me for calling her "elderly" eh?)
LIB and WML were more wide-ranging, much longer family style dramas, with more room for extra characters. If there was anything I'd pick at in this drama, it was the inclusion of Jisoo and Eunsoo's brother and sister-in-law. They seemed to be there simply so Dad would have a place to live that was not with either daughter. Not that the actors didn't do a good job; they just seemed extraneous. If Dad had lived with Eunsoo or even insisted on living on his own, we wouldn't have missed them at all.
Kim Sang-joon (Joonpho) displayed more subtlety than I at first thought him capable, and Bae Jung-ok (Jisoo) was just herself as usual. She's an odd actor, seemingly disconnected from her emotions, and it served her well in this part. It also gave some power to the times she let go, for instance, when she trashed Joonpho's study. I thought Kim Hee-ae (Hwayoung) went a teeny bit over the top. A little bit too hysterical, and I don't know that I liked that everyone (including her) attributed any disturbing behavior on her part to the fact that she "lived in America." Seriously, we're not so very nutty. LOL.
Otherwise, I have to say I ended up enjoying this a lot more than I expected.
I've seen another of this director's dramas (Life is Beautiful), which was in the vein of Who's My Love, and naturally enough, I adored it. That drama featured Kim Sang-joon (Joonpho) as a man who was tortured in life and love (only in a more comic way), as well as, playing his father, the man who played Joonpho's father (Choi Jung-hoon) as an oblivious, selfish old man descending into senility, who had a difficult relationship with this son. Sounds familiar. I recognized the director's style right off the bat, even before I knew it was him. He likes to frame shots with windows or bookshelves, for one thing. I like his work so far.
(LOL. I just looked him up. He also directed Who's My Love. I like him so much, I guess I'll have to marry him.)
I thought the elderly parents, without exception, were great. Absolutely not one wrong note among the lot. (I'm including Hwayoung's delusional mother here; she probably would hit me for calling her "elderly" eh?)
LIB and WML were more wide-ranging, much longer family style dramas, with more room for extra characters. If there was anything I'd pick at in this drama, it was the inclusion of Jisoo and Eunsoo's brother and sister-in-law. They seemed to be there simply so Dad would have a place to live that was not with either daughter. Not that the actors didn't do a good job; they just seemed extraneous. If Dad had lived with Eunsoo or even insisted on living on his own, we wouldn't have missed them at all.
Kim Sang-joon (Joonpho) displayed more subtlety than I at first thought him capable, and Bae Jung-ok (Jisoo) was just herself as usual. She's an odd actor, seemingly disconnected from her emotions, and it served her well in this part. It also gave some power to the times she let go, for instance, when she trashed Joonpho's study. I thought Kim Hee-ae (Hwayoung) went a teeny bit over the top. A little bit too hysterical, and I don't know that I liked that everyone (including her) attributed any disturbing behavior on her part to the fact that she "lived in America." Seriously, we're not so very nutty. LOL.
Otherwise, I have to say I ended up enjoying this a lot more than I expected.
