Comments | idiosyncreant: K-Movie: Hello Schoolgirl

idiosyncreant

K-Movie: Hello Schoolgirl

Apr 19, 2011 23:22

I have a bit of a hang-up on age-gap stories (in either direction) so I am happy to do some handwaving for the fun involved.

This movie did a bit of glossing as far as plausibility goes, like where the girl ends up staying out all night, and her mother that lives with her alone doesn't notice. I was actually a bit uncomfortable, but not because ( Read more... )

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naamah_darling April 20 2011, 04:44:10 UTC

The pitch-perfect resolution is so important, and where genre fails writers if they don't pay close enough attention. You can walk away from a movie having laughed, and tell people it was "pretty good", without that closure of an intelligent ending. The feeling of having been through something more worthwhile, especially more than you expected, only comes from a finishing blow that brings out the best in the characters, and resolves the main themes of the story.So true. It's possible to write a story that wraps up all the loose bits at the end, and brings the plot to a close, and rounds off secondary plots, but if there's not character resolution then the whole thing will feel flat. It can still be a good movie/story, but not great ( ... )

idiosyncreant April 20 2011, 13:55:40 UTC

Yeah, and what makes it a little more complex is you *do* have to follow conventions if you're following a genre format ( ... )

loquaciousquark April 21 2011, 02:57:25 UTC

Okay.

So.

I have seen you posting these reviews for weeks now and I kept meaning to ask and somehow something's always come up, but HERE I AM AT LAST to say: I am interested in watching a K-drama; do you have any recommendations? Obviously I am completely new to this type of show, but your tastes seem similar to mine, so if you have any suggestions for something (preferably with a happy ending) that's suitable for easing someone into this sort of thing, that would be awesome.

(And do you just watch these online, or...?)

idiosyncreant April 21 2011, 13:14:35 UTC

HMMMMM.

Well, I have tons of things I could recommend, all with their pros and cons as a first K-Drama. I'm afraid the ones I'm about to mention will probably ruin you for most of the rest of the genre, but that's not really a *bad* thing. I'm sure you only have so many slots for watching 16 hours of drama online...

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