Heartstrings ep 10 - a gorgeous slice of life
It's official - I adore Heartstrings precisely because it has no real plot. What it is, is that rarest of all rare beast - a kdrama slice of life (just like the PD's past Worlds Within was). Nothing insane happens (and why would it?) - we just watch these characters we've grown to love go through their days. And I know I could be happy watching Shin and Gyu Won forever - just doing the usual couple things, falling more and more in love. Heartstrings is that rare drama where I feel the relationship is real - this is how real people behave. It reminds me almost unbearably of my own college days and meeting and falling for Mr. Mousie (we sat next to each other in class :P) It conveys that giddy, hyper-real feeling of first love, and the excitement of exploring the world in college.
So amazing.
I love how the drama portrays the early giddiness stage - the tentative holding of hands, Shin's little sneaky grins (we've never seen him smile like this before, or be happy much for that matter), Gyu Won's pleasure, their sheer compatibility, the newness of their feeling and their slight awkwardness, their sync in their passion for music. The way he encourages her and is proud of her and the way she teases him and makes him come out from behind his walls. The little thoughtful gestures (he got an adorable green pillow for her to sit comfortably on the back of his bike - how it brings back my early dating days with Mr. Mousie. I fell for him in part because of little thoughtful gestures like that). Their chemistry burns but it is helped by them being such real people and not just characters. Oh, and the scene at the end - his very public showing that yes, she is the one he loves, and all the fangirls can take it or leave it - OMG. When he sang that song, you could tell he sang just for her.
On non-OTP note, I continue to like the interactions btw JH and Hee Joo. He's the only one who gets past her shell, though of course, her horrible mother slaps her for being human so I am sure she will be back to witch now.
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