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Missing You korean drama review
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Missing You
1 people found this review helpful
by Osaka
Apr 12, 2016
21 of 21 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 4.5
Rewatch Value 4.5
This review may contain spoilers
Paradox. My feelings for this drama are a big and bouncy paradox. I'm not lying, this is one of my favorite korean drama but, at the same time, it's the one I hated the most! See? That's a paradox. The cruel irony behind the love and hate for this story. You can actually describe this story as “The most pain in the back love story of the latest centuries.” It breaks my heart calling this drama like this but it's the sad truth. The drama started so well and got me hooked by the very first seconds. Two kids with both sad stories. Fell in love, a tender love, but some complications and tragics plot twists break them apart. Ok, let's say it clearly. When they were kids they were two adorable cupcakes. But right after 5 episodes, they grow up and that's when troubles starts for me. The main actress can make you fall from your chair while trying to drink some Belladonna and kill yourself because of her awful and exaggerated acting skills. That's probably the reason why I don't like to watch a lot of korean dramas. The huge amount of tragic and sad scenes meant to break your heart but,in the end, just make you ask for mercy because you just can't handle those pathetic scenes anymore. I can't write spoilers, so I'll just try to let you know what “pathetic” scenes are. Crying, crying every single time even when it's not needed. Why do koreans cry so much in drama? That's a mistery to me. Trying to take revange on a man for what he did ( or not did) when they were kids. Kids get scared, it's not a fairytale so why being such a bitch with him for something ( something really terrible) that has happenend to you when both of you were SCARED KIDS? But that's not the most stupid point here. If you have watched this drama or at least you might had step on some spoilers you know that both Lee Sooyeon or Hwang JungWoo kept thinking about each other for the past 10 or 15 years. When it comes to write down a character's personality I think that korean screenwriters shouldn't put tragic past on a character's life just to make you sympathize with her or him. I'm not saying that tragic pasts are not allow but at least try to follow the string that connect the present and the past of a person without completely change it just because she's interacting with his “prince charming” ( let's call it like this.) The female character is those kind of girls that had to handle with a terrible sequence of goings-on that traumatized her life. When she was a kid ( she was actually a 15 years old but to me you still a kid at that age), she had a really bad mother and she was living in a really bad and cruel surrounding. But, here it comes the prince charming. The male character is a rich boy who might be living in a golden castle but has a rotten family. A father, that is the real bad guy here but screenwriters just made you think that Harry Borrison is the cruel boy here, who loves is son just because he's the next head of the family. A stepmother who just think about her own child. Both characters are alone somehow so they just became friends. But korean drama's world have to be a really tragic and sad world, so something really terrible happened and they split. So, why am I talking about their pasts? Because their past is the only thing that I liked about the plot. When SooYeon grew up she tries to, just for two episodes though, take revenge on Jungwoo. And ,let me say it again, it's a stupid and childish revenge. He was a kid, a kids get scared, as I said before. But that's not the main plot. Let's focus on the real thing. The plot is actually complicated and intriguing but because of those two main characters I couldn't enjoying it so much. People call it a love story, but to me this drama just make you see how “good characters” can be ignorant about some kind of mental diseases and be portrayed as “heroes” of the story. I think that SooYeon's mother should have been punished too. But, it's a korean drama, so this little thing just get lost in the middle of the drama. But now, let's talk about the main star of this story. Harry Borisson is, in my opinion, one of the best villains on the kdrama history. Seungho had a baby faced beauty on that time. He was just a 19 years boy but he had to play a 27 or something man. His character was the only one who was well portrayed here. He's evil, mean, a psychopathic killer and a kind of stalker, obsessed with the female character. Like all characters here , he sicks revenge for what they have done to him and his mother. He's SooYeon's saviour but, even though she thanked him in the end, I still think that all this drama characters didn't really try to understand him and his actions. There are three main victims here : Soohyun, Jungwoo and Harry. BUT, screenwriters are as dumb as a donkey so they just made you sympathize with those two characters. Harry is the bad guy but , God, he's a freaking victim too and 'till the end no ne tried to understand it. It's a drama so everything is fictional but I still think that dramas have to stuck to reality as much as they can. Here, you just spit fire for Harry sad story and sad ending. All victims should have a happy ending, here not all of them had one.
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