Bitch Talk: To the Boys of Winter

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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