Thank you, I enjoy reading your reviews of Korean drams. I had not heard of "A love To Kill", but looked it up on Amazon, and they have the drama for sale with English subtitles. I think I will get it in a couple of months. Right now I am in the middle of Damo, which as you know, is very sad and dark during much of the movie, so my heart is a little broken and overwhelmed. I am also in the sad part of Love Story in Harvard, sheesh. It sounds like "I Love to Kill" has the same sort of pathos, but I will want to see it anyway.
Re: subs. Make sure you get the good subs version, not the engrish ones. I shelled out for a really expensive set with perfect Japanese/English subs but it was super pricy. If you want, I can link you to people who burn discs for you and that's cheap and the subs are good...
it remains one of the most beautifully filmed kdramas I've ever seen: clean, sharp, yet oddly muted cinematography, tilted camera angles, mirrors and reflections
sooo true. Amen to that.
Also, I think I was the only one to almost Rain him with Secondary Girl. I don't really know why, since he clearly doesn't love her and she's more like a sister; maybe I watched the whole thing only from her perspective, and that's why it was so painfully beautiful and delicate and heartwrenching (I love that scene when he goes on a date with her to make her happy and he's resting and she's watching him eeeh). And when he kisses her neck and her scar and he tells her not to hide it, that it's/she's beautiful omg *loves to death*
and maybe that's one of the reasons I'm still on ep 12, lol. (no seriously, it's too painful. Have to gain the courage. I got to the point I was about to cry every 10 minutes or so.)
I started the drama liking Secondary Girl, loathed her for a bit in the middle and ended up with liking her again. She is as dysfunctional as the rest of them: she knows he doesn't love her and the good thing would be to let him go, but she cannot.
Hmm I couldn't really pick one, I loved too many scenes. How could you not, when they're filmed so beautifully? The first ones that came to my mind:
-Pretty much everything of ep 5. Besides the rescuing-from-Secondary-Guy (whom I dislike A LOT) scene, I loved the ending, when she slips and he's holding her and you see that he wants to let her fall but he can't actually bring himself to do it, and the conflict in eyes and omgtheangst
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is in inner turmoil between hating her and loving her.
Oh, I loved that. And of course, even once he finds out the truth, he is still in turmoil because then he is torn between love and guilt towards wanting the woman his brother loved. There really is no hope for them, is there?
I love how he has all these chances to have her harmed even without his active involvement, early on (when she almost gets run over by a speeding motorcycle, when she is almost gang-raped, when the goons are hitting her) and yet he can't let himself do it and saves her every time...so messed up.
I have the discs of this for the longest time, but it's collecting dust. Just a day ago, a friend recommended it again: said if I really liked Shin Min-ah in "The Devil," I would really like her here more.
I'm a little hesitant about watching Rain angst. Is he any good? :)
It's an awesome drama. And he is very excellent. I don't listen to kpop at all so my knowledge of him is only from three dramas I've seen him in and I fangirl him from that :)
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Re: subs. Make sure you get the good subs version, not the engrish ones. I shelled out for a really expensive set with perfect Japanese/English subs but it was super pricy. If you want, I can link you to people who burn discs for you and that's cheap and the subs are good...
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guh how I love ALTK.
it remains one of the most beautifully filmed kdramas I've ever seen: clean, sharp, yet oddly muted cinematography, tilted camera angles, mirrors and reflections
sooo true. Amen to that.
Also, I think I was the only one to almost Rain him with Secondary Girl. I don't really know why, since he clearly doesn't love her and she's more like a sister; maybe I watched the whole thing only from her perspective, and that's why it was so painfully beautiful and delicate and heartwrenching (I love that scene when he goes on a date with her to make her happy and he's resting and she's watching him eeeh).
And when he kisses her neck and her scar and he tells her not to hide it, that it's/she's beautiful omg *loves to death*
and maybe that's one of the reasons I'm still on ep 12, lol.
(no seriously, it's too painful. Have to gain the courage. I got to the point I was about to cry every 10 minutes or so.)
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Btw, what's your fave scene in the drama so far?
I cried SO much with this drama.
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The first ones that came to my mind:
-Pretty much everything of ep 5. Besides the rescuing-from-Secondary-Guy (whom I dislike A LOT) scene, I loved the ending, when she slips and he's holding her and you see that he wants to let her fall but he can't actually bring himself to do it, and the conflict in eyes and omgtheangst ( ... )
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I love scenes in this drama when Rain is in inner turmoil between hating her and loving her. Very expressive.
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is in inner turmoil between hating her and loving her.
Oh, I loved that. And of course, even once he finds out the truth, he is still in turmoil because then he is torn between love and guilt towards wanting the woman his brother loved. There really is no hope for them, is there?
I love how he has all these chances to have her harmed even without his active involvement, early on (when she almost gets run over by a speeding motorcycle, when she is almost gang-raped, when the goons are hitting her) and yet he can't let himself do it and saves her every time...so messed up.
That drama made me bawl so hard.
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I'm a little hesitant about watching Rain angst. Is he any good? :)
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