Oh Silence...
I think I found about the most awesome drama MV ever:
The above is the MV for Silence, a Taiwanese drama starring Vic Zhou (my all-time fave drama actor) and Park Eun-Hye in what is probably the angstiest drama I've ever seen, because usually I can laugh at drama emo but here I can't because Wei Yi and Shen Shen as just so humanly lovely and fragile and good.
Park Eun-Hye plays Shen Shen, a young, ethnically half-Korean woman who lives in Taiwan. Shen Shen is mute. When she was a child, she lost her voice due to trauma of an accident she was in but that hasn't prevented her from growing up into a cheerful, strong woman who just makes the room brighter by being in it.
During the time she spent recuperating in the hospital, she made a friend, the only close friend she really had: a serious, dreamy boy named Wei Yi, in the hospital with a broken leg. Both alienated and outsiders (Wei Yi chose to believe he was an alien, Shen Shen through he psychological refusal to talk), the two really really fit.
Now, it's many years later, and Shen Shen's paths cross with a ruthless young businessman, who seems to have as little compassion as he has fun or patience. Little does she know it is the now grown-up Wei Yi. One of the things that I love so much about this drama is Wei Yi's characterization and portrayal: you immediately see that yes, he is ruthless and business-oriented, but he is forced into a 'proper' mold by his family. It's a mold he never fit so in a way, the effectiveness is overcompensation. But his encounters with Shen Shen enable him to be himself, and slowly the real Wei Yi, a little whimsical, somewhat of a dreamer, a bit shy, emerges out of the shell. And of course the two fall in love. I really love that it's all about seeing past surfaces: she never takes him as 'rich so must kowtow' person and he is not in the least fixated on her inability to speak.
But...and this is where the 'but' comes in, we and Wei Yi learn early on (ep 2, 3?) that he is actually terminally ill. In fact, a lot of the drama is his trying to come to grips with this, trying to cope, trying to figure out how he wants to spend what is left of his life, and trying to figure out whether to get involved with Shen Shen despite all this.
Anyway, I cried so much I think I couldn't see straight, with this one.
Click to viewThe above is the MV for Silence, a Taiwanese drama starring Vic Zhou (my all-time fave drama actor) and Park Eun-Hye in what is probably the angstiest drama I've ever seen, because usually I can laugh at drama emo but here I can't because Wei Yi and Shen Shen as just so humanly lovely and fragile and good.
Park Eun-Hye plays Shen Shen, a young, ethnically half-Korean woman who lives in Taiwan. Shen Shen is mute. When she was a child, she lost her voice due to trauma of an accident she was in but that hasn't prevented her from growing up into a cheerful, strong woman who just makes the room brighter by being in it.
During the time she spent recuperating in the hospital, she made a friend, the only close friend she really had: a serious, dreamy boy named Wei Yi, in the hospital with a broken leg. Both alienated and outsiders (Wei Yi chose to believe he was an alien, Shen Shen through he psychological refusal to talk), the two really really fit.
Now, it's many years later, and Shen Shen's paths cross with a ruthless young businessman, who seems to have as little compassion as he has fun or patience. Little does she know it is the now grown-up Wei Yi. One of the things that I love so much about this drama is Wei Yi's characterization and portrayal: you immediately see that yes, he is ruthless and business-oriented, but he is forced into a 'proper' mold by his family. It's a mold he never fit so in a way, the effectiveness is overcompensation. But his encounters with Shen Shen enable him to be himself, and slowly the real Wei Yi, a little whimsical, somewhat of a dreamer, a bit shy, emerges out of the shell. And of course the two fall in love. I really love that it's all about seeing past surfaces: she never takes him as 'rich so must kowtow' person and he is not in the least fixated on her inability to speak.
But...and this is where the 'but' comes in, we and Wei Yi learn early on (ep 2, 3?) that he is actually terminally ill. In fact, a lot of the drama is his trying to come to grips with this, trying to cope, trying to figure out how he wants to spend what is left of his life, and trying to figure out whether to get involved with Shen Shen despite all this.
Anyway, I cried so much I think I couldn't see straight, with this one.