Now that spring is finally here in my neck of the woods, I just want to say thanks to these six young actors for playing their characters well in the kdramas. They made the dark months of winter bearable. I didn’t have much to bitch about their performance. 1. Choi Woo-Shik as Woong in “Our […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 14 Life Is Beautiful
I wrote a separate review of “Life is Beautiful.” The movie is too good to be treated as a mere companion piece for my analysis of our kdrama. Link here: Life Is Beautiful: A Retrospect Here are the similarities that I can see. 1. Willpower In the movie, the hero Guido believes in willpower to alter […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 13 Love Actually
“Love Actually” (2003) is one of those dramas that didn’t age well but I’m glad that people have finally caught up with my Bitch’s Romantic Standards. I remember leaving the movie theater, mystified by the general public’s outpouring of adoration for the screwed-up vignettes of love relationships. I’m sorry. But Colin Firth’s handsome face couldn’t sell […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 12 Begin Again
I agree with Welmaris when she commented in a previous thread, Although the storyline of Our Beloved Summer is discernable without knowing about the movies referenced in the episode titles, it becomes richer, more layered, when the inspiration is brought into our consciousness. It’s good to recognize the themes, motifs, and scenes that the writer […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 11 Our Nights are Better Than Your Days
It’ll be difficult to tackle this movie when I’ve only two things to work on: this article: https://diaboliquemagazine.com/ and this synopsis from the French Wikipedia on “Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours” (1989), Lucas (Jacques Dutronc), brilliant inventor of a new programming language, learns that he has a rare disease that affects his […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 10 Hello, My Soul Mate
Warning: This is long. Also this contains major spoilers on the Chinese film, “Soul Mate” (2016). 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 Let’s cut to the chase: the film is about a woman in her mid-thirties writing about her past friendship and using her friend’s name as pseudonym. Her age wasn’t revealed but given the death of her friend at age […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 9 Just Friends
Watching “Just Friends” reminded me of the things that turned me off about Hollywood romcoms: unlikable heroes, shallow plot, false standards of beauty and success, slapstick humor, and above all, lust masquerading as love. I should have just read the plot summary on wiki. Here are the parallel elements I found in the film and […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 8 Before Sunset
As I told Janey in one of the earlier threads, if I were to just focus on the yo-yo relationship of the OTP in this drama, not only would the pace drive me bonkers, but their immaturity would have set me off on “When I was your age…” lecture. What made this drama entertaining for […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 7 On Eternal Recurrence
I was about to write about Episode 8 when I realized that I couldn’t proceed without explaining the concept of “eternal recurrence” that was introduced in the epilogue of Episode 7. This will be quick and painless, because I know this isn’t philosophy class. The epilogue was a flashback to Ung and Yeonsu’s high school […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 7 Catch Me If You Can
As I said when I began doing these movie comparisons, I treat the title as a springboard. To optimize my understanding of the significant scenes in the episode, I look at the film (or the song, as in the case of “I Know What You Did Last Summer”) for which the episode was named. But […]
Our Beloved Summer: Please Help With Titles
If you know the films these titles are referring to, please tell me. Thank you!! This will save me time. Episode 7: Catch Me If You Can Is this the Spielberg movie? Is there a Taiwanese/Thai/Indian/Korean film out there with the same title? a. Edited 1/21/22 to add @GB’s comment: Episode 7 – Catch Me […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 6 Pride and Prejudice, Part 2
Link to Part 1: Our Beloved Summer: Ep 6 Pride and Prejudice, Part 1 Where was I? Oh! Pemberley. I finished comparing Ung’s symbolic Pemberley to Darcy’s Pemberley so let me bring up this second point. Back in my First Impressions, I pointed out that Yeonsu would have recognized the real identity of Go-Oh. a. Back […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 6 Pride and Prejudice, Part 1
Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is much beloved by many of us here at Bitches that I toyed with the idea of letting you determine for yourselves what the parallelisms are between the book and this episode. But then I’ll miss out on the fun. I’m breaking my critique again in two parts because I’ve […]
Our Beloved Summer: Ep 5 A Secret, Part 2
I don’t do recaps so I’m grateful to those who do. I’m basing my comments on the information I found on these two sites about the 2007 Taiwanese movie, “The Secret That Cannot Be Told.” http://telly-tales.blogspot.com https://opionator.wordpress.com It should go without saying that this post contains spoilers. The movie “Secrets” is best described as a […]