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Reflections on Fate and Choices
Lost Track of Time is an entertaining and enjoyable period drama with a philosophical twist: the clash of Fate and personal choices in our life. Do we really choose the path of our life or is Fate more powerful than our choices? Lu Aran is a jolly privileged and naive girl who lives her life trusting too much her own good nature and doesn't consider that Evil hides where you least expect it. She believes herself lucky and happy but is it true? When she opens her eyes and sees the reality of her life, she cannot take it. But what if she had another chance? Can she change her life or is Fate too strong? Great performances from the three main characters. Costumes are beautiful. Loved the soundtrack too.SPOILER
Jing Chao's performance is outstanding: he always brings a great depth to his characters, and several layers of feelings and reasonings. MuZe's Fate is to live a lonely cold life: he wasn't loved as a child and his father the Emperor never appreciates him. His greatest ambition is to become Emperor so he can bring justice to his dead mother. In order to do so he has to get rid of all his enemies and even of his allies. The only joy in his life is his relationship with his younger brother MuChuan who he wants to protect at all costs. He marries LuAran for her shipping company but he really falls in love with her.
In the first part of the story, it's not believable that he doesn't really care for her or for their son's death, because they were the only warmth in his life.
In the second part of the story, LuAran never explains him what happened in her previous life, so MuZe never really understands LuAran. I personally believe that at least at the end she should have told him.
Besides, in her previous life LuAran really loved MuZe and it's not believable that in her new life she never feels anything for him: certainly in the past, before finding out he was plotting against her family, she must have felt love and warmth from him or she wouldn't have stayed 10 years with him.
In the second part of the story, the authors did a good job portraying how MuZe has to follow his ambition, protect his brother, try to conquer LuAran while knowing that his brother loves her too: he has a lot on his plate!
This drama is good and I will certainly rewatch it.
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Time travelling
Falling Down is based on the idea of time travelling. The story is interesting and you want to know what happens next, but sometimes the events overlap and you must follow the story carefully or it gets confusing. All the characters are well portrayed, but the events are more important than the psychology of the characters so we do not get to know their feelings or personality very well. I personally think the ending was too hasty and it is certainly the hook for Season 2. However I will rewatch this drama, mainly because I want to understand the story better.Was this review helpful to you?
