“i think lee eunho told the truth. the boy was probably at his place at the time. but… i’m not sure if lee eunho was with him.”
Tag: kdrama
You know, Encounter is amazing not because of mood or acting (even though they are great) but because it takes one of the often done narratives – our protagonist experiencing mid life crisis/feeling about meaninglessness of life until they meet someone exciting and rediscover themselves – and makes it new by switching out the genders.
How many stories are there about powerful middle-aged women, with past relationship baggage, high social standing and constant ennui who meet free-spirited and poor young men who make them see the world anew through their manic pixie dreamboy qualities?
Yeah, I will wait.
Still waiting.
It’s also perfectly acted and shot, but what stays with me is the melancholy yet hopeful mood and the story set-up.
As someone who has neither a douchy ex nor a CEO position, I still found myself relating deeply to Song Hye Kyo’s burned-out character. The regrets are relatable, the possibility of an emotional miracle inspiring. But I am a lot closer to her age than the average tumblr kdrama watcher. I wonder if this drama works for someone who is a teen or in their early twenties or if it just appears a lot of fuss over nothing.
This might be the most compelling evidence yet that the girl in the green dress is actually Woo Kyung herself. Not just in the implication of Ji Heon’s words, but in the composition of the first shots. Woo Kyung’s reflection looks like her ghost looking back at her, mirroring the little girl’s gaze. A delusion surfacing from somewhere deep in Woo Kyung’s subconscious, a buried trauma, urging her to save abused and mistreated children. Because she was one of them.
I don’t know for sure if that’s what’s going on, but Woo Kyung has clearly suffered some kind of abuse in the past. Possibly at the hands of her stepmother. That woman is cruel, hold and emotionally withholding toward her. And Woo Kyung consistently tries to pacify and please her, while also being terrified of her hanger. Her reaction to her stepmother is as strange as it is disturbing.
If what’s happening isn’t supernatural, but rather a manifestation of Woo Kyung’s intuition, then her delusion might very well be repressed memories surfacing.
OH MY GOD THESE CLIFFHANGERS ARE FREAKING KILLING ME.
There’s quality of real-world murkiness to Children of Nobody, which I really am liking, despite the mystery/supernatural angle. Everything is so messy. The characters, their situations, their choices etc.
Usually, everything is so polished and perfect in most kdramas, so cut and dry (which I enjoy as well) that it is a nice change of pace to see people dress and behave in a way that reflects the real world and us, sort of ill-fitting, but presentable nonetheless, unsure of the way some things are going on in our lives, but absolutely certain about some others.
Of course, only time will tell if this theme continues throughout the drama but still, this was something I noticed and I really liked.
Hakyeon’s character in his new drama……he’s like, suspicious
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