Emotional and beautiful!
Me gustó mucho. Desde el primer capítulo yo ya estaba llorando, es muy muy emotivo y las historias de las personas a las que les limpian sus pertenencias son tristes ):Me encantó el desarrollo de los personajes y siento que tiene el número de capítulos Perfecto. Las redes de apoyo de Geu Ru lo son todo y la manera en la que todos lo quieren y cuidan me gusta mucho <3
El último capítulo me puso muy nerviosa porque sinceramente no sabía cómo iba a terminar todo después de que el primer capítulo comenzara intenso.
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Heartwarming & Heartbreaking
What a gem of a show. Beautiful in every way. Firstly, I loved the cinematography of this drama, my eyeballs where blessed. The acting, music, story, well most things just works in this drama. Emotionally, its so devastating, yet it warms your soul all at once. It's kinda difficult to explain what works in this drama, so I will keep this part short. It's just..very good. I do have some minor issues with the drama, but they aren't really major flaws.Some of the flaws:
My main issue with the drama is not necessarily what was shown, but what wasn't. I would have loved the drama to focus more on the dynamic change between Geu Roo and Sang Gu towards the end. I feel like they didn't have a clear conclusion to what was at the end, the main story of the drama. Moreover, since the show kinda reaches it's climax during episode 8 (imo), I almost feel like they could have spent more time on the uncle's story. As much as I enjoyed to watch the whole father/family storyline at the end, I feel like they could have incorporated that storyline more early on, and not dedicated the 2 last episodes just for that.
Overall, Move to Heaven is a brilliant drama. I would recommend everyone to watch this!
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EP 5 A Masterpiece.
Spoilers ahead : ep 5 is better than most the korean bls oit there. Fact. I watch all of them. I need this episode to become a whole drama even tho I know it will only make me cry my heart out. The script, the acting, the details! I figured out everything from the moment they entered his room, the "pray for orlando" poster make me sure. Only someone that knew about it will get it and i was suffering from that moment on until the very end! The flashbacks where so hurtful!! And what the protagonist said stayed with me " It's a shame when you aren't capable of loving, not when in love, isn't it?" He is so pure, I wish more people would see the world like he does...Was this review helpful to you?
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SO MUCH LIQUID CAME OUT OF MY FACE HOLES
Thank god there were only 10 episodes...I think I'd probably die from dehydration if there were more than 10 episodes of this drama. Every minute of every episode is a tear jerker. Good grief, I didn't know I even HAD this many tears to cry. Basically everyone is sad and the world is a sad shitty place. I mean clearly they make the show mostly about finding peace amidst the pain, but gosh is there so much pain represented here. Though, even with all the pain, I did like that we weren't forced to watch countless unrealistic happy endings; everything was bittersweet, it doesn't try to fill the sorrow holes it creates with bunches of fake flowers. My advice, if you watch this drama, make sure you drink lots of fluids.The drama itself had a pretty basic storyline, it was well crafted but not complex. There were a crap ton of social messages, but they weren't invasive and were well integrated. Nothing about this drama was invasive at all. It didn't really ask you to think or figure things out, it basically only asked you to cry along with everyone else watching it as events unfold. The acting was decent, the main character did a pretty great performance as an autistic kid, especially with not making eye contact. There is generally a lot of criticism when actors try to play autism spectrum roles, "he didn't do this right or that right"...but the reality is that there are so so many different points on the autism spectrum and not every autistic person responds the same. This actor hit enough of the right points to make the character believable without being overacted, gimmicky, or grotesque.
Really, the main character being autistic was convenient for the story because it separated out emotional response from logical response and allowed the viewer to consider both aspects. It also gave the viewers a refuge from the constant pouring rainfall of sadness and allowed them to experience aspects of the story they might not have been able to experience without that sort of grounding logic-based reasoning. They played off this really well throughout the drama, allowing the side-characters to react emotionally and leap to conclusions while the lead character always brought everything back down to earth with a more macro view of the situation.
Overall, it was a really well executed simple drama. I see a lot of reviews wanting a season 2, since it's a Netflix drama and the ending is left sort of open for a sequel. If they end up dropping a season 2 I will watch it....but I will definitely pick the right day to watch it when my poor sensitive heart won't bust in two. SO MUCH LIQUID CAME OUT OF MY FACE HOLES....
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not as good as expected
I am very surprised reading other reviews that so many people were so touched they cried their eyes out.... it wasn't my case. the story is interesting, unique. I love the way the autistic person is described. I like the complicated story the uncle had. it was dense and emotional, but some way I managed to stay out of reach. I think there were too many little odd details that kept me from diving all in. maybe is it because this show is like an advertiser about dysfunctional families. and I think the uncle is too extreme.when to watch? I don't even know if I would recommend. if I could go back in time and give myself the advise to watch the show or not, I would advise myself to not watch it. there are so many other shows out there, and a lot of them better than this one. it took me almost a whole month to watch the 10 episodes. and the only reason why I didn't drop it is because there was only 10 episodes. a few days after I came across the story of yanxi palace, and watched the 70 episodes in 10 days. there is no comparison between these 2 shows. this one is just bland.
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real gem
I came across of this by pure accident - or better say luck! It is so very engaging, heart-breaking, melodramatic in a good way!You can totally recognize the tropes, the most prominent of them being this Savant Syndrome / Autistic Genius...Obviously dramas are reluctant to depicting NORMAL boring people, and exploit these/ those exceptions! Like, who wants to see an average kid vs a superpower still vulnerable kid?
This is romanticism at its best!
Though packed with tropes, it's well acted and employing an original background setting, i mean - the trauma cleaning thing.
Nice watch, idealistic as it is.
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Extremely overrated
This is probably the most overrated Korean series out there. It's completely different from what I imagined and it's not different in a positive way.I thought Geu-ru would help his thug uncle become a decent human being. However, in the 5 episodes I've watched, the two barely speak, don't know anything about each other and look more like college roommates than relatives.
The stories of the dead did not move me at all. The guy who died at the factory and the old lady were the slightly interesting stories. The teacher's story is absurd and sick: how does someone who is being stalked by her psychopathic ex-boyfriend OPEN THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE FOR HIM TO ENTER???? The gay musician and gay doctor story is a cliché and like the others it didn't even come close to making me shed a tear.
All this added to the slow and depressing pace and the "brilliance" of Geu-ru (who seems to be the only one capable of having an intelligent idea. Seriously, he was THE ONLY one who came to the conclusion that the doctor was gay and that they should look for by a male musician? Any reasonably intelligent person came to this conclusion in 3 seconds, and yet the uncle and Na-mu didn't. Sometimes the series pushes Geu-ru's above-normal intelligence too much. It wasn't necessary to do the others complete idiots to make the disabled protagonist intelligent) make this series very unpleasant to watch.
In fact, in this series it seems that they took Cheol-min from Always, Sang-tae from It's Okay To Be Okay and a nosy, nosy young lady like Ha-yeong from Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol or Yu-na from Hotel Del Luna , and played all three in the same series.
Ultimately, I didn't really feel connected to the protagonist's story. I loved Sang-tae from It's Okay To Not Be Okay and really got to feel all the ins and outs of having autism. In Geu-ru's case, I couldn't feel the gift and hardships of illness in the same way.
On the plus side, I really liked the Na-mu character and the OST. Therefore, a note 3.
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Sweet But Not Heavenly For Me…
First I’m going to be really honest and just say this wasn’t for me. Don’t get me wrong. The storyline and process of healing was something I could relate to a lot after losing a relative myself and it did strike a chord with me how the actors were perfectly able to captivate us into the storyline.So why did I drop it? Well it didn’t really hook me. Normally I love healing tales and storylines but the characters didn’t really make me warm up to them. Of course that’s my personal opinion. It was a good show even from the episodes I saw, but I doubt that I’m going to carry this one forward.
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Original but left me with questions
First of all, I find the concept very interesting, as I didn't know what trauma cleaners were at all before this. I like how even if this drama mostly features one character per episode and their story (the deceased I mean), it was still deep and engaging and managed to make me care about each character within a limited amount of time. This doesn't happen often for me at all so I applaud the writer for that, and also the director and actors for the execution.The main cast was great and I think they all did a good job, but let me start with Ji Jin Hee as Jeong U.
Jeong U is so compassionate, patient and optimistic, and it was heartwarming to see how he managed to be such a strong and loving father to Geu Ru despite dealing with the fact that his wife died and that Geu Ru has Asperger's Syndrome. He encouraged Geu Ru a lot and embraced him for who he is without ever judging. He taught Geu Ru many things and how to be empathetic as well (or as close as it gets to being that) and I really appreciated that. Even after Jeong U dies, Geu Ru remembers the things his father said and taught him and he gets reminded of his encouragement when he is uncertain. It was touching to see how he ‘stayed’ with Geu Ru like that. I also like how the last episode really dives into Jeong U and how he adopted Geu Ru and it just added even more to his character for me.
Tang Jun Sang did a wonderful job portraying Geu Ru. I found Geu Ru interesting as a character. It may seem ‘robotic’, but I found it endearing whenever he tried to show his care in his own way to the other characters. Also, sometimes when decoding the deceased’s stories he’d act a bit like Sherlock Holmes, deducing and solving mysteries. He also has a photographic memory, and it’s funny how Sang Gu joked that he’s like an AI and a recorder at the same time (as Geu Ru can also recall conversations exactly how they went in the exact tone people talked).
As for Na Mu, I don’t have much to say because she’s more of a side character ish. But I do really find it commendable that she’s such a supportive and caring friend to Geu Ru and she even ends up working with Move to Heaven as well after Jeong U passes. Although I don’t like the way she’d act towards Sang Gu at times, I also think it’s understandable considering the way Sang Gu ‘introduced’ himself and all the shady things he seemed to be doing at the time.
Sang Gu, as one of the main characters, definitely had character development throughout the drama. He starts off indifferent and kinda rude and salty about the fact he has to take care of the kid of his brother who ‘abandoned’ him (to his assumption) and is ‘forced’ to work with Move to Heaven. But as time goes on, he starts to become more compassionate and he starts to genuinely care for Geu Ru.
However, I find it incredibly disappointing that some key things about him aren’t elaborated. For example, what happened to him when Jeong U couldn’t pick him up at the train station? How did he grow up and live all those years? How did he end up in the boxing field? When the drama elaborated the backstory of him and Su Cheol I was hoping to see how he ended up in the boxing field at least, but it was still not explained.
I also don’t think it’s convincing that Sang Gu didn’t want to see or talk to Jeong U only because he couldn’t pick him up that one time. Like yes it must have been hard as a kid to be left alone like that, but if he talked to Jeong U the misunderstandings could easily be resolved. I just find the writing here to be a bit lacking because I feel like there should have been other things that made Sang Gu feel so distanced and resentful, and not the mere fact that his brother didn't come to the train station as promised. Again, what did he actually have to go through alone all those years?
This is a big question mark for me and flaw since Sang Gu is one of the main characters, and that’s why I can’t empathize with Sang Gu on a deeper level even if I want to.
Another question I have is what led to Jeong U starting a trauma cleaning service? Is it because of his wife? Is it because of some other things he experienced or saw? Also unanswered.
Overall, I did enjoy this drama, but I hope that if there is going to be a S2 that these questions will be answered.
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A Journey to Love!!
I don't even know why I was so reluctant to start this drama. Like, what was I even thinking?!This is a masterpiece, and it absolutely deserves its rating. It's my first time watching a drama about trauma cleaners, and it's such a compelling subject.
Dramas that delve into the stories behind deaths and evoke such deep emotions are truly amazing, and that's a fact.
Moreover, having Jun Sang portray an autistic character just made it even better. Watching him bond with his uncle and seeing Je Hoon grow fond of his nephew as they embark on an incredible journey is what I loved the most. I found myself rooting for them every step of the way.
I'm genuinely saddened that I put this gem on hold because of my slump. But I know that without that slump, this is the kind of drama you can't tear your eyes away from or stop watching.
Grab some tissues and brace yourself for a roller-coaster of emotions!!
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A Heart-warming Drama
⚠Caution- Contains a suicidal story.
- Contains disgusting scenes (blood, insects, liquids, slum places).
?Drama type
- This drama type is similar to Korean drama Taxi Driver and Japanese anime Detective Conan
- It has a main plot (the story about the main character and his family) while having the side plots running in each episode.
- Side plots: Each episode has its own conflict and will be resolved at the end of the episode. So, an episode has a different conflict story from other episodes. Example (does not contain spoilers): Episode 1 is about the death of someone ending his/her own life. Episode 2 is about the death of someone killed by someone, etc. If you don't like this kind of drama, then it's better to not watch it.
✅Pros
- The story is really heart-warming.
- Family-friendly.
- Unique main plot.
- Top-tier acting by the main character.
- Mysterious irritating yet funny and loveable personality by his uncle that you will be suspecting him in the entire drama.
- Adorable neighborhood character.
- This drama is for you who likes to hurt your eyes so the tears come out :")
- The duration is not too long so you can binge-watch it on a holiday night.
?Cons
- As always, because this is an original Netflix series (which only has no more than 10 episodes), there is a plot hole (plot missing) at the end.
- The side plot is somewhat boring and sometimes the conflicts are resolved too early/rushed.
- In the beginning, you might find it's annoying to hear the main character's voice because it's how the main character is.
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lindo e triste
que dorama lindo e triste do início ao fim.me emocionei em todos os episódios, mas principalmente nos 2 últimos, também me apeguei demais nos personagens e nas histórias e foi muito lindo ver o crescimento deles.
move to heaven ficou na minha lista por muito tempo, pq não achei que ia gostar tanto, mas agora me arrependo de não ter visto antes. com certeza vai entrar no meu top preferidos e vai ser um drama que eu vou querer rever e indicar pra todo mundo.
a atuação do tang jun sang é sensacional.
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