Friday, May 21, 2021

Ajooma Reviews: Do You Like Brahms, Love Struck in the City and When the Weather is Fine

It has been a busy first half of the year. One more week and it's June! Summer is up ahead. While I have been very much involved in community work, literacy advocacy and initiatives online and of course, work from home, I am updated on my Kdrama watch list. It grows long by the day, I tell you. Romcoms and slice of life genre are my biases so, I have them up on my list. 

Here are three Kdramas that I really enjoyed after watching True Beauty. 

Do You Like Brahms is a Kdrama about young musicians and the pursuance of their dreams. Park Eun Bin plays the aspiring violinist but she is a bit short in the talent department. Nonetheless, she is diligent and dedicated to her job as an intern in a music and arts foundation. This makes her an endearing female lead. Park Min Jae plays the male lead in this drama and it is such a delight to see him essay a conflicted character breaking out into his own. He and Eun Bin have chemistry. Their look and personalities complement each other so, when the scene of their first heart break happened, I wanted them to be back in each other's arms again.

Over all, Do You Like Brahms is a Kdrama depicting the lives of young professionals overcoming their own fears and insecurities with a little help from the community who believes in them. Once again, the value of a community in shaping a person and how it impacts his/her life is very much evident in this drama.

Love Struck in the City is again, the story of six yuppies living in Seoul. It tells of their daily lives and the choices they make on love and career. It looks as simple as that. Yet, at the core is the quest of finding one's self and being happy about it. These six characters are connected to one another and  through interviews done by an unidentified character, the documentary/oral history approach in storytelling works. It was like watching a magazine interview in three parts or installments. 

Kim Ji Woon and Ji Chang Wook make for a beautiful couple. They did find their happy ending despite the open ended and heart breaking resolutions that beset their friends at the final episode. Those loose ends and open wounds linger. It will make you wonder what will happen next and though there is no promise of a second season, it is better to leave things as they are.

And now I go the last Kdrama review for this post. When the Weather is Fine is one of the under rated dramas of 2020. I am happy to have seen this with my daughter. It is a visual feast, a well crafted story of redemption laced with comforting stories of family life and community. Park Min Young and Seo Kang Joon perfectly portrayed the disturbing silences inside them preventing them to love each other. And when they break this silence, their dialogues to each other  is poetry.

Up next in my Ajooma Reviews are three Kdramas, namely Dr. Romatic Season 1 and 2, Reply 1994, Vincenzo and Hospital Playlist.

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