I watched this 1999 film and for me, there were two highlights.
One, Heath Ledger’s dancing spectacle, and
Two. Kate’s poetry scene
Here’s the poem.
I hate the way you talk to me and the way you cut your hair,
I hate the way you drive my car, I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind,
I hate you so much it makes me sick it even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you’re always right,
I hate it when you lie,
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you’re not around and the fact that you didn’t call,
But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
Lol. Of course, if you’re like me, the first thing you’ll bitch about is that she can’t count.
So how does this American movie relate to this episode bearing the same title?
Ung: (being interviewed) Oh, things I hate? It’s still Kook Yeonsu.
Note the word, “still.” To me, he’s trying to connect the present documentary to the past documentary. That documentary only lasted one month, May. I’m calculating that they began dating on July 20, 2011.
In their high school documentary, he was asked the same question. At first, he didn’t get it because he asked the question to be repeated.
Off-camera, she scolded him, telling him to pay attention.
He glanced at her, then, as if by magic, he suddenly understood the question. He didn’t need it to be repeated.
“Ahhh. Things I hate? Kook Yeonsu.”
He was being mischievous. To me, he was trying to lighten up the moment so he deliberately teased her.
She rolled her eyes at him and he changed his answer, “I mean, I hate Kook Yeong-su. She’s some girl I know.”
She pounced and said that she hated pathetic people, all the while looking at him. He parried with selfish people; he hated selfish people. She interrupted him and said she hated troublemakers, people who caused trouble for others because they couldn’t keep to themselves and drag others down. In response, he answered harsh people. He explained that some people talk without thinking at all.
That’s when she said that he should take a good look at himself because he didn’t think at all. He was surprised by her cattiness. “Wait, are you talking about me?”
Huh? Did he really think that they were talking in generalities, and not about each other? Was he being facetious? Obtuse? Clueless?
She said that he seemed to be talking about her, too. And he replied, “Are you kidding me?” And she retorted, “No, I’m totally serious.”
To me, two things were happening here.
One, he was joking around but she took his answers seriously, personally. He wasn’t prepared for her attack because he thought she understood that he was just being flippant. Ironically, her outburst demonstrated that he was someone who spoke without thinking.
Two, she made it personal. She didn’t get the joke. To begin with, she was aware of his (bad) opinion of her and was sensitive about it. She didn’t like that he thought of her as a “selfish bitch.”
He didn’t understand that her prickliness was a defense or coping mechanism. As her Grandma would say, “being hot-tempered is a must if you’re poor.” She couldn’t allow others look down on her (or pity her, for that matter).
This interview happened back in 2011. In the present-day interview, Ung began with the same quip about hating Kook Yeonsu, but this time, he wasn’t joking anymore.
Ung: Oh, things I hate? It’s still Kook Yeonsu. I can give you about ten reasons why I hate her. Firstly, as I’m sure you know, she’s so selfish. Firstly, as I’m sure you know, she’s so selfish.
Note: This has always been number one on his list.
Then, flashback to August 31, 2011, Day 42. They were already dating then. Two classmates wanted to borrow her notes, saying that she was the only one who wrote them. In response, she ripped the page on her notebook and said she had no notes anymore.
In college, May 24, 2013, Day 674. she was presenting a group report when her groupmate arrived late. Coldly, she deleted his name.
Ung: (continuing) And she doesn’t have much… I mean, she has no social skills. (This is number two; I’m counting them.)
I suspect he clarified that he was talking about social skills because viewers might misunderstand that he was talking about her body shape (i.e., she didn’t have cleavage and other curves.).
Flashback to college. February 20, 2012, Day 215. They were on a date on a snowy night, and he suggested they’d get drunk that night. He offered to bring her home so she shouldn’t worry. He could handle the alcohol better than her because he was a guy. Suddenly, she turned their date into a drinking contest.
Ung: (continuing) She tries to win at everything….Her useless competitive spirit… (This is number three.)
Flashback to June 4, 2012. Day 320. She was getting in the faces of three upperclassmen in college. Ung tried to block her.
Ung: (continuing) She picks a fight with everyone. (That’s four) And she’s stubborn. (Five.)
Flashback to September 2, 2015. Day 505. They were at the hair saloon, and she insisted he got a short hair styled like in the magazine because “the man of my dreams is someone who can pull off this hairstyle.”
Ung: (continuing) She’s a self-centered person who has to do whatever she wants, no matter what. (Isn’t this a variation of #1?)
I think I heard him use the word, “Psycho” but the Netflix subber didn’t translate that.
Then to prove his point there’s a flashback to April 1, 2013. Day 621. Note: This was April Fool’s Day.
He wanted to go see the cherry blossoms. He said it was their last chance because it was raining the next day. She was busily re-shelving the books (I’m assuming she’s working in the library as a part-time) while he sulkily messed around with the books. When she promised they’d go the next year, he said that she promised too last year, so why couldn’t they go this year. “They’re the prettiest right before they start falling,” he added.
She replied that she didn’t understand why he would want to see flowers like that. “They’re just useless flowers with bunched-up petals that have no scent.”
Ha! If you ask me, she was just being sour grapes. She was being negative because she really wanted to go out with him, but couldn’t.
Ung: (continuing) And she has no sense of romance at all. (Six.)
In frustration, he boxed the library books. Why? Because in his mind, she chose to shelve books instead of an outing to the cherry blossoms with him.
I say that two things could be at work here.
a. To me, he didn’t understand that she had a job to do. She didn’t want to go out with him – not because she didn’t appreciate the beauty of the cherry blossoms – but because she couldn’t afford to skip her part-time job. I don’t think she ever told him that money was tight for her. For her, it was “books over flowers.”
— which reminds me, in Episode 1, she made sure to ask her homeroom teacher if she was going to be paid if she agreed to do the documentary. To Ung, money wasn’t a big a consideration. His parents forced him to do the documentary, not for monetary reasons, but because they were genuinely eager to know more about his school life, and because he could hang out and study with the top student.
b. It was also possible that she was setting him up for April Fool’s Day.
Ung: (continuing) And…how many are left?
Flashback to June 14, 2013. Day 695. He had no class that day, but he went to school anyway because she said she’d have lunch with him. She forgot their date, and she had to go to the library again to fix her assignment. It was important, she said.
To me, this was the start of Ung’s misconception. He thought that he was at the bottom of her list of priorities. He was looking forward to their lunch together, and she dismissed their date without a second thought. She even
Ung: (continuing) She always has important stuff to do. (Seven.) I hate that she only thinks about herself. (lol. He sure is upset about her being selfish considering the number of times he brought it up: selfish, self-centered, and self-absorbed.)
As Ung watched her run off to the library, his friend began badmouthing Yeonsu. His friend said Yeonsu was famous in school for her bad personality. He also couldn’t imagine Ung dating a girl like her. Ung then put a stop to this talk. “Don’t talk about her like that. You don’t know anything.”
Ung: (continuing) And another thing I hate…
August 31, 2011. Day 42. After Yeonsu ripped her notes, she taped the paper up and gave it to Ung. She wanted him to study the key points that would appear on the test and she was going to quiz him on them to make sure he was prepared.
Ung: (continuing)…is that only I know a side of Yeonsu which nobody else knows. (Eight)
Then, one by one, Ung picked apart the flashbacks he mentioned. He corrected the original narrative to show that it was only half-true. He had given a distorted picture of Yeonsu.
May 24, 2013, Day 674. After she “cancelled” her groupmate in their group project, she visited his parents’ restaurant and helped his mom prepare the bean sprouts while he got them tea. She reported to his mom that Ung was a “snore”. I guess, Ung should be proud that she didn’t “cancel” him either despite being a boring person.
February 20, 2012, Day 215. She did end up winning their impromptu drinking contest but she carried him home that snowy night. He didn’t have to worry because she was a strong woman who could take care of him.
June 4, 2012, Day 320. The reason she picked a fight with those upperclassmen was because she was defending Ung. She warned their seniors that she wouldn’t tolerate them bossing Ung again just because he was nice. Holding his hand, she told the men, “If you ever do that again, I’ll show you how crazy I can really be.”
So yes, she picked a fight with everyone, but she was also Ung’s best fighter.
April 1, 2013, Day 621. She couldn’t go with him to see the cherry blossoms, but she called him out after she came home. Still sulking, Ung asked her why she wanted to see him. She asked him if he was still upset about not going on a date to see the cherry blossoms, and he denied it.
Yeonsu: Why would you get upset over one meal?
Ung: It’s not exactly just one meal.
Yeonsu: Were you counting? You’re so petty.
Ung: Petty? Did you just call me petty?
Then Yeonsu surprised him with a shower of flower petals. April Fool’s Day!
So they ended up seeing cherry blossoms.
Ung: (continuing) She showed this side of her only to me. So I couldn’t help but love her.
Note: this pivot point sounds like Kate’s argument from the film “10 Things I Hate About You.” He hates that he can’t help loving her. He knows that the mean, heartless, cold witch she presents to the world is only pretense. That’s why he blasted his college friend that he knew nothing.
Ung: (continuing) And the ninth reason. She makes me love her, but then when I think I can’t be happier, she takes me to the highest place, and she pushes me off the cliff in the cruelest way possible. (Ninth)
Flashback to their breakup. Ung was accusing her of abandoning him, before all else, when things got tough. When he asked her if he was the easiest thing she had to throw away, she answered, “No. You’re the only thing I can throw away.”
This confirmed his earlier observation that he wasn’t important to her. Everything and everybody else in her life was important, except for him. He was the only disposable thing in her life.
Disposable = unessential, unnecessary, extraneous, replaceable, worthless
That’s what he hated about her. She made him feel unloved.
In the epilogue, we’re given a hint that Yeonsu was only being cruel to be kind. She was crying in the bathroom after pretending to be alright.
Ung revealed the last item on the list toward the end of the episode.
After several coincidental encounters with her in the neighborhood, he was no longer surprised to see her again on the street at night. He teased her, “Did everyone else in this neighborhood disappear? Why is it always her?”
He meant this joke to be a conversation starter…just like in the documentary when he said that he hated “Kook Jeonsu.” But she still couldn’t take a joke…just like in the documentary when she called him pathetic. With a judgmental tone in her voice, she asked, “Have you been drinking?” She thought he was pathetic because he was drunk and about to make a scene.
When he remained silent, she dismissively ordered him to just go home.
That’s when Ung delivered his last reason for hating Yeonsu.
Ung: Ten reasons why I hate Kook Yeonsu.
Flashback to their breakup five years ago. She told him that he was the only thing she could throw away. He asked why she was doing this. He called out to her back, “Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?! Why do we have to break up?”
It upset him to remember that she never gave him a reason for walking away from him.
So as she walked past him, he grabbed her wrist.
For a long moment, they looked at each other (kdrama trope alert!) Then, he dropped her hand. This time around, he didn’t ask her any questions like why she broke up with him or why she was still acting like this. He knew the answer anyway.
Ung: (continuing) The tenth and the last reason. She erased me from her life so quickly.
This:
must have reminded him of this:
What started out as a light-hearted joke was no longer a laughing matter for him.
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Now, that’s Ung’s list.
What about Yeonsu’s list? Although Yeonsu wasn’t interviewed in this episode (was she asked in future episodes? I don’t know…), it’s easy to guess the things she hated. Ung mentioned three of them.
1. June 20, 2016
Ung: (drunk) Eunho! Do you know what Yeonsu hates the most?
Eunho: What?
Ung: Getting drunk and making a scene late at night. (and he started making a scene)
2. June 22, 2016
EunHo: What time is it? What are you doing?
Ung: Another thing she really hates. Buying things out of impulse while drunk.
3. June 23, 2016
EunHo: Ung, wake up. You have an exam today. Get up.
Ung: And another thing.
EunHo: What did you say?
Ung: Not going to school the day after you drink. It’s one of the things that Yeonsu hates.
Isn’t it interesting that irresponsible drinking habits topped her list of hateful things?
4. She also hated to beg and looking desperate.
EunHo: Ung, be honest. You want Yeonsu to come and beg you to work with her, right? You’re doing this because you want her to beg you, even it’s because of work.
Ung: She’ll never do that.
She would never beg because she hated looking desperate. She would pretend that she didn’t care and act like she was indifferent. Case in point: when she came over to his house to ask him to collaborate on a project and he sprayed her with water and threw salt at her. lol.
5. She also told JiUng that she hated doing the documentary project again with Ung. Lol.
I’m sure in the next episode, I’ll see more of the 10 things that Yeonsoo hated.
Next, Episode 4.
This is great! Thanks @pkml3 for laying out the hates so clearly. I tried to get 10 on the other thread, but failed, LOL.
This part you wrote, I feel you meant to say not
… but rather ‘She made him feel unloved.’
Essentially in both the 1999 film and this one, the party who feels he was wronged, hates not the other party so much as his inability to stop loving them. CU’s anger is directed at both himself and YS. He continues to live under the misconception that she erased him easily and completely for a while yet, since she could not bring herself to admit that he was her weakness.
In the end how many reasons do we have left with CU?
1) If we cancel out the selfishness that was only directed at others, but which did not include CU.
2) If we cancel out her lack of social skills because she was great with CU’s parents.
3) If her competitive spirit was justifiable since she could drink more than him and she took responsibility for him.
4) Her fights were on his behalf and therefore also justifiable.
5) Her self-centredness gets cancelled out by her thoughtfulness in bringing the cherry blossom petals.
6) The cherry blossom petals also cancelled out her being not romantic.
7) Her hiding her sweeter side from others cannot be considered seriously as a thing to hate.
So we are left with just 3 hates: the fact that he still found her selfish ie she put her wants before his, she broke up with him without any apparent reason and she appeared to have erased him easily from her life.
We find by Episode 12 that these 3 hates have also been partially addressed or partially redressed. And we’ll probably have a bunch of new conflicts arising from external parties to deal with, and move on from these hates between just the OTP.
Whoops, will edit. I don’t know how that happened, @GB. 😂
LOL @pkml3, considering the hundreds of thousands of words you write, it’s not surprising at all we get ourselves mixed up. I find that I do the same, or I think I typed a word and then find that it’s missing. So the poor reader has to guess what I was trying to say!
Never thought about how this episode laid out also the things Yeonsu hated since she wasn’t the one narrating them… Now because you pointed out how they also showed what Yeonsu hated, I think the way they showed it was super creative 😂
This is the episode that I start to get the charm of their romance. There are many stories about first love. Is CU and YS first love that unforgettable? Why is there such a lingering regret? When CU revealed the other side of YS, that’s why I know why. When everyone else in the world can misunderstand her, he gets her. She always surprises him in the sweetest way that no one else gets. It is almost a side she especially reserves for him. She is a giver, not a taker. She helps Ung when needed. She doesn’t ignore Ung’s disappointment and always want to cheer him up.
Except he still doesn’t get why she left him at this point. I don’t too at this point. I too, am asking why like CU and waiting to find out as the story progresses.
Sometimes I wonder if CU has not been considerate of YS, and YS has been too considerate of CU, just not on the onset. Does he not know her financial difficulties at home? At some point, I wondered if CU was being rather clingy, yet he is charmingly nice to her if you see what he did to initiate time with her in episode 12.
@Viva, I mentioned about what I suspect YS’s reason is for leaving him somewhere in the open thread 2 I think. Possibly of her being too considerate of CU but I think she hurt him more in the end.
I wonder what ways CU did to make YS loved, I mean we see it on episode 12 but prior to that we have not seen much?
My thinking was that he loved her so much that he didn’t know words were necessary because it was so obvious to him. But I agree @Grace, I think there is something we haven’t seen yet to be revealed about their breakup. And @packmule3 once you mentioned the Heath Ledger dancing scene, I now have an ear worm: “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”.
I think in one of the episodes (Ep 7), it was revealed by CU himself that YS doesn’t really open up to him. He said if he tried to ask, she would say she’s okay. If he worried, he had to pretend that he worried for nothing because she repeatedly said not to worry or there was no need to worry. When they had to breakup, he didn’t know the reason but he had to accept. When he asked her how she was after the breakup, she still said she was okay. So maybe at one point, he never really tried to seek for the actual answers since he was sure he’ll not get any answers or will receive the same answer? And so maybe that’s why he never truly understood the financial difficulties YS was going through. Also, given that he was financially secured, poverty or being poor might not be something that he knows on a deeper level.
I’m curious though if he will ever ask for the answer in the coming episodes to his question of why they had to breakup.
Kalimera Ladies!
@Packmule3 Heath Ledger was one of my favorite actors. I still haven’t seen his Joker because I just can’t. Next week, it will be 14 years without him. I can clearly recall the day I read about his passing on the internet. I was being numb afterwards.
Now, let me return to Our Beloved Summer:
I remember that I was so mad with what Yeon Su about what she told Ung in that alley. It was a callous thing to say. She hurt him deliberately and we know why she did that. It was explained to us in an later episode by her.
@GB Unnie had made a long comment as she said above and I remember that basically since the beginning we knew that Ung truly loved her, but not in the way Yeon Su understood or wanted to. He was a man of actions and not of words.
@Viva, Hands down, Choi Ung is a very interesting character for me. As I have written somewhere in the first thread, if we could make a maturity list in the top would be NJ, Chae Ran and Choi Ung.
I also answered to @grace about her thoughts and now I remembered that I forgot to answer to @GB Unnie…Oh well. I will find some time later on…
@Gen,
Since we are up to date and I don’t know if you are. I cannot answer you here without not giving any spoilers.
I can say for now that we were suspecting and discussing something very specific about Ung on the thread #1 that was revealed to the viewers this past week. So, in the external you might think that Ung may have financial security, but Ung himself doesn’t take it for granted.
Why? Please come to Thread #2 if you have watched Episode 11+12 and we can discuss it further.
SPOILERS up to Episode 6
Hi @Viva @grace @Good Twin @Gen Doensaeng @Cleo
@Viva says
The clues or reasons as to why Yeon Su decided to ‘abandon’ Choi Ung.
These points may also have been raised by others before.
– YS found that CU’s circumstances were too different from hers. Since she could not/would not tell him about her poverty, from time to time it was too difficult to keep up the illusion that she was not poor. Just as she had done with her friends, she abandoned CU, more than once.
In school, when her friends began to ostracise her for her constant rejection of their overtures of friendship, she was hurt, but she could not afford to buy food to share with them, and she didn’t want them to know this. Her only recourse to avoid further hurt and embarrassment, was to deny herself any friends at all, by pretending to be nonchalant and aloof. It must have pained her a great deal to push everyone away, but it was so that she did not need to reject anyone else, or be in a position to feel that kind of humiliation again.
Choi Ung, however, broke through this barrier. YS’s thoughts are [The only person who has allowed me to escape from reality was Ung.]
YS’s thoughts [At times, I was desperate for some comfort away from reality. And (being with CU) made me forget about reality.]
[But when I opened my eyes again, reality struck me harder than ever before… as if to mock me for having a dream.]
– CU was her weakness. Her reality was difficult. She found that when she was with him , she could forget her reality. But ‘running away’ from the reality was only temporary relief and it came back to bite her in a big way, as when she had to pay back her uncle’s debt. I’m guessing that it was at this stage that she did another breakup with CU.
Maybe it was the time when they were at the amusement park, and she found that she could not enter the happiest place on earth, because her circumstances were far from happy. She couldn’t bring herself to go into the Magic Castle, so she suddenly broke up outside it.
When I say CU was her weakness, I mean that not only did he manage to sneak past her cold front, but being with CU made her weaken her resolve to keep working so hard. She wanted to escape with him to a life of relative ease, but she actually couldn’t do that. I feel that she probably really wanted to do the things with CU that he asked her to do… not only to go see the Cherry Blossoms, but also to go overseas with him to study there. So to avoid the temptation of an easier life with him and to spite herself for even considering it, she punished herself by breaking up with CU.
@grace wrote
Grace said in the 2nd Open Thread that YS broke up with CU because she wanted him to go abroad without her. I agree that this was the ‘final straw’ moment. She knew that he would give up the trip in order to be with her. She knew that all the arguments to make him go without her would fail. So she broke up also partly for his sake and partly for her own.
YS’s thoughts in Ep 6 [So the reason why we had to break up was … because we live in two very different realities. Rather, it was because my reality was pathetic.] She hated all pathetic people, because she hated being pathetic herself.
[Actually it’s because life alone was too much of a burden for me. To be honest…to be completely honest, I was afraid you (CU) would eventually notice my inferiority complex.] (Her pride made her want to run and hide before she revealed herself.)
[The reason why we broke up was because of my pride. It was my pride that told me that I could live without you.]
She was convinced that they faced insurmountable differences. She thought that just as we get rid of a weakness like a bad habit, which is generally a good move, we’d get over it. She was confident that she could leave him and that she’d be OK, but she was wrong.
She covered up her own pain by pretending to be angry in front of CU, but her anger was directed at her circumstances and herself. Since she could never inform him of her true circumstances, she could never give CU the reason why she broke up. She just broke up and walked away to hide the pain.
But this hurt CU as well. That’s why she said she was selfish. She thought of herself but she did not want to consider CU’s well being at every breakup. In the previous breakups, CU had always returned to her, and she may have gotten round to apologising each time, to make up with him. After the last breakup, CU did not go to see her again, and she may have assumed that meant that he had gotten over her.
Awwww thank you so much @GB
I felt the gravity of YS pain even more now that you have beautifully expounded it.
I think this is one of the beautiful things in the drama—how they presented the characters and their circumstances. Sometimes, the one who breaks up is usually the person whom everyone blames and people tend to think that they aren’t hurting when in reality, they are hurt too in some cases.
Ah yes @GB thank you for reminding me about what YS said about her inferiority complex and her pride.
Sigh…this girl gotta love herself better. Do you think with her financial situation much better in that 5 years, things would change? He is really her ray of sunshine and in a way he can’t live without her…even though in ep 11, CU said to YS’s grandmother that he doesn’t deserve her.
*SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 12*
@grace
About whether things will work out better now that YS is more established in life and is no longer poor… I too was wondering the same thing in the first thread.
I was mentioning the analogy of the ruined drawing that YS had tried to salvage by erasing the ink while it was too wet. 5 years previously, the timing was wrong, but now 5 years later, might the ink be dry enough for them to start again. Might they erase some of the hurts and be able to mend what was ruined so that the correction fluid wouldn’t show too much.
I’m not sure. Although now she’s no longer that poor, if she knows that Grandma told CU they had been poor, then perhaps she’ll be more able to admit that being poor and proud had informed all her harsh, selfish, one-sided choices, which she never wished to acknowledge before. By this time, though, (Episode 11-12) CU might have figured it out.
He’d guess that she left him not because she did not love him, that she didn’t mean the harsh words, like how he ‘was the only thing’ she could throw away. Then he’d be more willing to always come back when they continue to have their fights (of course there will be more: they have a pattern of them and they are both so strong willed.)
Matters may also depend on Grandma and other external agents. Grandma wants JU, not CU, to be the one YS ends up with. We have 4 more episodes of to-ing and fro-ing to see what CU and YS have to put up with, besides each other. 😉
Yah. Granny seems to favor JU since JU is naturally polite and caring esp to seniors. But I was also wondering if granny is just being harsh to Ung but deep down inside her she knows that Ung loves YS so much. I think she saw that Ung is YS potential Husband and so she would like to challenge Ung by scaring him. But based on previous eps, even if Ung was scared of her, he showed that he would rather take it all in if that’s a proof of how he wants to be a part of YS life until the very end.
And maybe her concern with Ung is whether he’ll be able to provide for YS considering that they were poor and I think she had this misconception abt Ung being useless and sickly 😂 Little did she know that Ung is actually quite established and wealthy himself.
Anyways, I think granny really likes Ung but she doesn’t want to admit it 😂 these are just some of my thoughts though.
Looking forward to another meeting of granny and Ung.
Thank you for this @packmule 3 and also @GB, I love reading the episode impressions then going back and re-watching the episodes – I find new things I missed before. My takeaway from this post: “I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.”
Same with @Viva, episode 3 is when I started to warm up to YS and understand why CU loves her. As for YS, despite her nonchalant and tough personality, it seems she loves CU unconditionally. She even said in episode 12 “I had forgotten who I was in love with. It does not matter if he has changed or not. It was Choi Ung. I just loved him for who he was.” Just like Kat and Patrick in the movie, YS and CU have things that they hate about the other but in the end, there are also things that we can accept, understand or forgive of people we love.
@Grace @GB thanks for the explanation. I am up to date with the drama now and I will join you in the open thread. 🙂
Unlike in ep 3 I can feel the charm of their romance, I couldn’t feel and fully get YS’s pride and inferiority complex. Why when CU never complained, unlike the other girls who didn’t understand her? I thought 5 years is long time, and if she needs to hide her poor background, that would be tiring and probably not do-able. That’s the harder part for me to understand. CU is more observant than I give him credit for in last week episodes. He probably knows?
Let me go to the open thread. 🙂
I like that as much as there was those things to hate about YS, CU also told of her other side, which was her own way of caring, protecting and showing her romantic side with the cherry blossom petals.
YS really didn’t tell CU or anyone about her financial situation? Wow. That takes guts.
I have to say those sentence were a knife again and it killed me – ‘you were the only one I can throw away’. 💔 Also breaking up without a reason, no wonder CU was out of it for awhile. ☹️
YS’s breakdown at the end was so needed by her otherwise she wouldn’t be able to keep going. I saw her suffering too.
Yes. I like that imagery of water running in the sink as she cried.
It reminded me of Pontius Pilate washing his hands. He didn’t want Jesus dead, but he felt he had no choice because the people demanded for his crucifixion. He had to give in to their demands.
So he washed his hands to symbolize that he’s washing off his responsibility. It’s out of his hands. That’s how the idiom “to wash one’s hands of” came to be. A politician who washes his hands of a crisis means he’s refusing to take responsibility or the blame for the crisis.
Similarly, letting the water run in the sink, not only hid the noise of Yeonsu’s crying, but also indicated to me that she didn’t want their relationship dead, but she felt that she had no choice in the matter. She had to sacrifice him for the greater good.
Yes, she didn’t want to break up but she had to. She had to do it in a cruel way too just to prove that image again that she really is a self centered person.