(For the other reasons you said as well.). It was so much surer earlier on. Now, I just can't watch JIS without thinking "he did a porn movie" Cause that's what it is. Also, he lost his tragic first love. The use of soft-focus lens didn't seem to mesh well with the story-telling part. What the heck is his problem? i'm a great fan of head's writing superpowers. Soo nods, understanding even though it hurts. After watching the last ep, even though we got the happy ending, I felt that it was a frustrating journey. I always see this movie labeled as "porn", but this is the perfect example of explaining that it isn't. But then she adds that if she lives through her surgery, theyll meet again, and finally talk out their issues. 2. Well, there was no wrenching of the guts here. I really love him. Indeed, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it this way. Similarly, in Goodbye Solo, NHK gradually gets you into the head and the heart of each character-- you may not like some of the characters or their actions, but you'll understand where they're coming from. Because a dead Soo wont give him any money, Boss Man has no choice but to try and win the pot to save himself from bankruptcy. I dont buy that this show was making a statement about clinical depression through Young, but I do buy that she had Drama Depression, with all its requisite symptoms of plot convenience. Also, it's not completely out of the blue, but I still don't buy how all a sudden the show just turned Soo into a chef at the end?! He looks relieved as he shakes his bracelet to let her know its him. I was so in love with it until that forced kiss and then it basically took a giant swing downhill. About the wang discussion, i think wang told her that soo died 20 days ago, after her chimio was over, because she didnt want to give up on her chimio because of the sad news (im assuming wang found out oh soo died 6 months ago). When it finally drops, Jim's typically British and succinct reaction is "Blimey". (And you'll realize how much we need one another in order to overcome our internal obstacles.) Ill miss it so much :D. I wanted to clear some things up for you, because I also had my doubts about whether Soo died or not at first. They're both crazy beautiful, I want to cry!! And I guess we underestimate the rate at which human hair can grow. I understand why he wouldnt take Youngs freely-offered money, but it made the entire con seem moot when he could have done this sort of one-gamble-to-rule-them-all from the beginning anyway. Jin-sung arrives in the meantime so Boss Man can declare him Soos gambling partner, and all of Soos huffing and puffing cant reverse the situation now. Nooooooooo!!!! From what I understand, a feeble attempt at killing yourself like Young did is not a suicide attempt, but a cry for help/attention. I really liked the beginning (episode 8 was definitely the climax of happiness for me) but then we dove into melo land which culminated in a LOT of crying in the last episode. "If that had been me, Id have taken the knife and gone after Kim.". !good point haha. In that case then, why stab him in the first place? But, no matter what flaws this drama has, I have to admit that I do LOVE this drama. 4. Good to know a little wrist-slitting never hurt anybody. The camera clearly focused on him, when he was on the ground, stabbed, after the flashabck he had his eyes were wide open for like seconds. Advertisement (maybe the real one, since they were going in the same direction?). It's by no means the worst thing I've ever seen, but it was a letdown - I can live with Young's suicide attempt, but the sudden Drama Fairy handwaving of it is too much. You will answer all my questions honestly. How about NOW, since youre already asking the questions? I don't need my heroines to be people I'd like in real life to consider them interesting and watchable, but the second half of this devolved in a very, very similar way to Nice Guy - the nonsensical last-minute stabbing of the hero (well, at least Soo, unlike Maru, does not hang out having conversations on a park bench with his girl AFTER being stabbed), the time skip and the reunion of the couple after a long time. If that was for Oh soo's grave then why it is on the table? Also, um. JS to me was a consistent character. She doesnt want blindness to haunt Young any longer and cries that shes sorry, which Im guessing is finally an apology for causing her blindness in the first place. He is forever amazing there! It was like a bad fairy tale that had a happy ending tacked on to please the audience. I don't recall Nice Guy's best friend betraying him, though. Jin sung tells Boss Man that all the winnings are his in order to pay Soo's debt, but Boss Man has another plan - he knows where Jin sung's family is, threatening Jin Sung to choose between Soo or his family. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, I'm certainly not an expert on NHK's work-- I've only seen a handful of her dramas. Soo drags his feet, futilely trying to make it to the hospital as blood streams from his wound and tears stream from his face. Like you, I didn't understand why she couldn't have that conversation with OS when she was having her tea and he was there (right there), and she had already shared her questions with him. i had the same reaction when a friend told me, man! He lived like a dog, and died like a dog, she laments, though shes not willing to let Soo comfort her as she tells him that he wont be needed at Moo-chuls cremation. SHK, you are being kissed by JIS! I don't think it was an excuse to put in alot of sex scenes. ), Young gets out what she wants to say as she fights back tears, but as she speaks, Soo lets his flow freely. "The Wind ," an impressive horror/western hybrid, is the kind of artful genre movie that some filmgoers think simply doesn't get made anymore. Wang walking back in so easily into OY's life. I think soo is alive:) eith regards to yhe "blurred" background.. i noticed that too yet i understand it this way :) young can't see clearly.. shes not totally blind, the background is actually her vision (that's my take) the first time she saw soo after a year when he was on his bike i noticed it's blurred so i thought maybe it was young's vision and i confirmed it when young visited yhe restaurant she cant see him that clear but she can see him :). In an even better play orchestrated by Jin-sung, Minion comes to the rescue as he and his men take over Boss Mans CCTV room so that they can keep watch over the game, ensuring that Boss Man cant cheat his way out AND to assure Jin-sung and Soos safe escape if they win. How can such a fine man do so many bad boy roles and be believable in them? When I heard her speech in this ep about how she wanted Soo to come and save her I was really disgusted. Youngs eyes begin to fill with tears as Soo pours his heart out in the video, saying how much he wanted to tell her when he first fell in love with her and how beautiful she was, and how much her real brother loved her. After they each pull away, Young comforts him: Dont cry. I was hoping for a more straight-forward ending, but I'll take this too. Stop playing with my emotions! Oh soo waited for Oh young to recover (6 months). It is only 16 episodes. or Im going to backtrack a bit to the attempted suicide, frankly because it still doesnt make any godforsaken sense on my end. I hate mellow, I always hate mellow. so that ending was weird, to say the least. But sometimes! And with just an "I'm sorry". We knew it would be, but it hurts to see the crazed look in Jin-sungs eyes as Soo hauls himself up to eye level. It's so dang pretty to look at that I almost forget that it doesn't make sense. The wind direction in the form of arrows is indicated on the widgets of the spots closest to you, including weather stations. Yep! Desperate for Soo Jin to have a good life - even if that means being apart . Later that night, Soo affixes the bell string to her wrist again. Because now just isnt a good time? Just read and look where Song was interviewed, she also concluded TWTWB was a happy ending story. In the poem's first stanza, the speaker describes how he saw the wind tossing kites in the sky and blowing birds around. Back with Jin-sung, we see Moo-chuls minion helping him out in revealing Boss Mans plan to screw him over, since the money he borrowed for the game came from the devil himself. hahaha, priceless. Soo nearly drops in relief when he finds Young, even as she emotionlessly tells him shes hungry. Maybe it was the timing in which it happened. And the wind finally stopped blowing! Isnt it hard when you cant look into the eyes of someone you love? Young asks. ! It had some surprises the biggest one that there was a happy ending. German-born director Douglas Sirk seized on the opportunity to lay bare these qualities in the films he made for Universal Pictures in the 1950s that secured his legacy Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life among them. Said piece of literature centers on an elderly couple living in England at a time when nuclear hostilities are at their peak. I still think this would have made for a interesting -if somehow predictable- conflict. That winter the wind blows ending. I really REALLY hated how everyone let Secretary Wang just waltz back into Young's life. Neither of them died! I found some recaps confusing but not the show itself. These 2 things really disappointed me, there were definetely some things who could have been done better, but on the other hand, im sure not many directors/writers could have succeded in making it better or at least as good as these producers did. And when he turns around he gets stabbed. Why? Some power that be wanted a happy to make viewers happy. I agree with you Canxi. Young made it thru surgery. I dont understand why this conversation cant happen now. Instead of theorizing, theres another option, in that the obligatory happy ending could have just made sense without requiring leaps in logic. The characters of Jim and Hilda Bloggs are hand-drawn, as well as the area outside of the Bloggses house, but their home and most of the objects in it are real objects that seldom move but are animated with stop motion when they do. And then, the end does not solve anything. Sec. And I know kdramas are all about redemption and forgiveness but pls not Secretary Wang, r u kidding me?! Could you please make sense? (I frowny-faced at that, honestly. Is this a dream? I'm confused with the ending. I didn't think there were many loose ends or plot holes, but the last episode sure makes it seem like there was just because it was like fitting a bunch of things haphazardly in a suitcase in way. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the show but I just feel disappointed because it could have been a great drama. @ jenn, you're right. Really? But in the end, it became just another k-melo that lost its footing, yet garnered tons of attention anyway. js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js"; :). The bit with Secretary Wang is so, so weird. But "Nice Guy" completely forgot about its main female lead, leaving her propped up in the corner while they finished out the main guy's story. But, because Soo lived so the scene didn't actually impact the storyline much, I just stick my fingers in my ears and lalala my way through that scene and the drama works! This is how she matured and transformed. He decides to divorce Soo-Jin out of concern for her future. And we see her see the boy's hand and pat it. As for the ending, I still kinda feel in some way that Soo is actually dead and whatever was happening was happening in some parallel universe, lol. Make Kim think Oh Soo, died like Moo Chul had everyone thinking he was threatening Soo instead of just warning him? Jin-sung tells Boss Man that all the winnings are his in order to pay Soos debt, but Boss Man has another plan he knows where Jin-sungs family is, which is already a threat in and of itself. hahaha, I can't believe more people didn't think of that, poor forgotten oppa Oh Soo :(. Then, again I don't believe Young would make up such an elaborate story for herself (even in a dream) to "blind" herself from his death. Seriously, I can't wait for his next drama! JS looked very sad at the point when he agreed to what Hee-sun suggested but the the face of JS was a type of confused or something that the director suggested for him to do to make us bewildered of what really had happened to Oh soo. While she was in the taxi she felt the wind rushing throught the trees, thats why she told the taxi driver to stop the car, she wanted to walk because she wanted to feel the breeze. Zombie Young says okay, and he carries her three steps to the kitchen. Doctor Sun-hee treats Young at home, with Lawyer Jang and her closest friends watching nervously even as Sun-hee declares that Young will be fine when she wakes up. while watching this episode, as in "I really want to understand, but honestly, I don't. Wind carries heat, moisture, pollutants, and pollen to new areas. If i have to nominate 2 things i dislike about this drama was jin sung stabbing oh soo (really bad move) and oh young not knowing or not even suspecting that oh soo might not be his real brother. At first I thought it was some kind of alternate reality where they both died and created it so they (and us viewers) can come into terms with moving on. Beside all the beautiful faces and cinematography, noise marketing, media play, exaggerated praise help the popularity of this drama also. According to Secretary Wang, Soo started there six months ago. One thing the show did really, really right I thought was its depiction of blindness. 2 eps later, all's forgiven! This is a happy ending. }; is the table a grave? If the story is fast forward, then it is possible that the end will be like that. I've just finished watching That Winter, The Wind Blows and I thought that overall the series was great and well worth the watch. Well, Young must be alive. His stern expression did make me think he matured a bit. // Load the SDK asynchronously She would have been very selfish and unchanging because she wouldn't know who could be trusted, especially when you know your step mom has sabotaged your eyes. It was also hard to express it as clearly and well-argued as you have done here. Talk about a quick recovery time. And then sit there and cry about it while he dies in front of you. I also had a hard time with Sec. As if to answer her request for them to be able to talk once she wakes up, Soo kisses her. Same here. Is he alive or just a figment of her memories? I still can't figure out how Mr. Kim killing his family meant that he needed to stab Soo. However, when she speaks to one of the kids next to her she reaches out to hold his hand and seems to look him in the face when she speaks. Despite being unable to physically see the wind, the speaker keeps tabs on it. But hes not there to hear about her family life, and instead asks her to return to Youngs side. The cinematography was imo not distracting but rather very well intergrated and instrumetalized, the music was good (this is where i usually loose my patience first) and Jo In Sung and Song Hye Gyo just clicked for melike massively, hugely, "pleaaase work together again". To be honest, I was relieved when you wrote that you felt conflicted about the finale and the last few episodes. I don't know. Young notices that her pre-surgery breakfast smells better than usual, only to find that Secretary Wang returned to cook it for her. It's almost like the story is saying that sometimes people really, really hurt the ones they love but we forgive them? Which begs the question: who was the better at conning? Third, I agree with Ashely above in that Sung's relationship had soured (three suiters?) Thank you so much Heads for your recaps. Really, the only way out was to stab Soo? To be honest, I am glad I read her commentary and her recap, however I still have questions. however, this drama, That Winter, The Wind Blows is the most amazing drama that i ever watched. With that said the ending was a little cryptic. Instead we only saw the aftermath in order to preserve the cheap surprise of finding out that Jin-sungs hand was the one holding the knife, but was anyone truly surprised? I loved the emotional humility of Soo's character. This was my reaction seven minutes before the ending: WHAT!? Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff . Soo lies(?) There was realism to that. We can theorize that he had to heal and hide for a bit from Boss Man, and that he was fine as long as he could keep a distant eye on Young. When the Wind Blows is a hybrid of traditional and stop-motion animation. Young's hair, everyone's fantastic health etc. Many viewers will say that a happy ending does not excuse a drama from obvious plot holes, but I'll give TWTWB a pass. I can see just enough to see that youre very good looking, she adds. Srsly the ending confused me i wanted to see wt happened next when Soo got staped i mean when he healed and stuff XD hmph oky i was happy that they ended together & happy ending but not like this lol . window.fbAsyncInit = function() { The first eight episodes were executed close to perfection imo but I didn't really mind the change in pace afterwards. Also, Heads! It being a cry for help doesn't make her suicide attempt less legitimate or fake in any way. Gangster Wannabe goes scurrying off with his tail between his legs just as Moo-chul collapses, spitting up blood from his stomach cancer. But more than anything, i belive the writers left an open ending on pourpose, they wanted to allow the viewers to come up with their own interpretation of the ending. Oh and Kim Bum, I don't think I can forgive you. my two cents anyway. It's even weirder cuz 2 eps ago lawyer ahjussi was angrily throwing her out asking her if she's human and all and then hey! I can write one of those, too.". And when Soo pulls back, they both look into each others eyes, smiling. But I can't deny how much I enjoyed looking at these ridiculously good-looking couple. The beginning of this drama was so so so good!!! I really think they needed another episode to really work the ending right. Jin-sung readies to stab his best friend again, but he cant bring himself to do it and drops the knife. She tells him that she even got to eat with her mother the night before, though they had to hide the fact from her father. Blurry. Soo calls Mi-ra to say hes on his way, but still, shouldnt he stay to make sure Jin-sung gets out of there? I wonder, I wonder. Were Boss Man's minions watching to make sure OS had been killed? @picklemonster: I was happy with the happy ending, too. Wind may be associated with some of the weather's most complex storms, but its beginnings couldn't be simpler. well probably what heads meant was that since she underwent a brain surgery, at least part of her hair had to be completely shaved prior to it being performed.. Because it just does not make sense. Oh, and yes, thanks to TWTB, I also discovered Jo In Sung!! The one glaring weakness, for me, was the whole Jin-sung stabs Soo scene. Yes, the picture at the end was pretty. That Winter, The Wind Blows: Episode 1 by HeadsNo2. I'm not a Kim Bum fan anyway, so when he's still acting adolescent in the tractor scene I just wanted to smack him upside the head. So I have just finished "That Winter The Wind Blows" which is an AMAZING drama but I have a question.. At the last episode, Park Jin-sung and Moon Hee-sun were discussing in the farm about what flowers to bring to Oh Soo, so I thought that he was indeed dead. Or maybe Soo went into hiding until gangster Kim was arrested? I honestly couldn't watch Jin Sung in that final scene on the tractor, I was so angry with him still. Had Soo survived, there was no way, the gangster boss, Kim, would have let Jingsung lived happily. Hee-sun mentions that theyre going to see Soo tomorrow, but it doesnt seem like theyre seeing him alive when they talk about what flowers to take. So my expectation was that in TWTWB, we would end up at least being able to understand all of the main characters. Hee-sun sees Soo off for his big gamble, after which he plans to go to the hospital to see Young. That Winter, the Wind Blows. Defined as the horizontal movement of air from one location to another, winds are created from differences in air pressure. That Winter, The Wind Blows: Episode 16 (Final) Dramabeans Korean drama recaps 317 April 4, 2013 That Winter, The Wind Blows: Episode 16 (Final) by HeadsNo2 There's a light at the end of every drama tunnel, but sometimes it's how we get there that matters more than how bright that light turns out to be. But gradually, the characters grew on me, and their relationships touched me. I'm disappointed though that it didn't keep up toward the end. This is not the case with That Winter, the Wind Blows. But to me what he did made sense for the character. I'm mad he had to stab his best friend for that to happen, though. Anyway, I thought it was clear enough that the ending was real, the blurry perspective was Young's post-surgery sight as Kaye says. They shift into her perspective when she was in the cab and saw the cherry blossoms, that's when the scene actually changed. It's alright if you're uncomfortable watching others be intimate at the moment, buuut "porn" is not the correct label for such a film. But it doesn't make sense. The vaunted cinematography of this drama may appear genuinely impressive at first, but it dawns upon you sooner or later that, however it wants to emulate it, this is not a Merchant-Ivory film. I sometimes miss some of those, and I appreciate when those are pointed out to me. On a shallow note, I loved most of OS's wardrobe, especially the orange coat he wore at the beginning of this episode, it looked good on him. As far as I'm concerned I"m happy with the ending, the viewer can choose. At first I was so upset because I wasn't sure whether Soo was dead or alive, and thought the writer ripped us off with an open-ended ending. She didnt really want to commit suicide, it was just a cry for attention? I know, hard to believe. (I'll vote for SJK's character in Nice Guy. Blurry happy ending scenes are so cliche. It's lovely and I don't think you can blow it off as just pretension. My take: Soo died. I just erase it. Energy from moving air. Its not over between us, she says, echoing his line from the video. This is not the case with That Winter, the Wind Blows. Why? That Winter, The Wind Blows (2013) Reviews - MyDramaList Buy on Amazon Add to List Details Drama: That Winter, The Wind Blows Country: South Korea Episodes: 16 Aired: Feb 13, 2013 - Apr 4, 2013 Aired On: Wednesday, Thursday Original Network: SBS Duration: 1 hr. The ending was real in my opinion. Its no surprise that Soo lived, since every character in this show (aside from poor Moo-chul), displayed a knack for healing without a scratch. I honestly handwave the whole stabbing scene away. I love reading your insightful, witty and humorous recaps. The weathers nice today, isnt it? she asks, and the man clearly responds with Soos voice even though his figure remains blurred. Who knows. But after watching the episode for myself and listening to the dialogue, it's obvious that Soo is alive. Thank you, Heads, for pointing out all the illogical additions and omissions that left me feeling confused and nonplussed during the last three or more episodes. " THAT WINTER, THE WIND BLOWS " SEASON 2 | SONG HYE KYO | JO IN SUNG | GREAT COUPLE @KBIZTV.Original.01 #songhyekyo #joinsung #ThatWinterTheWindBlows2 #thegl. It's at a drama's standpoint. Only when hes out does he call Secretary Wang to ask her to return, because hell feel more at ease if shes there to take care of Young. Otherwise, he would not have let her go through the pain and suffering alone again as she explained that fear to him several times throughout the dramaespecially after they had finally connected without any charades. And I read and understood the part about OS wanting Boss Man to join in the game so OS can gamble against him and win his money. They could be referring to the REAL Oh Soo. WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT. Jo Moo Chul [Gangster] Support Role. I wished they would have saved time there, and showed us what happened after OS was stabbed, instead of letting us speculate on what happened. I enjoyed the feisty and whiplash smart Young in the beginning of the show and then her character just went downhill with the suicide attempt. Good play, Soo. Regarding Jin sung. You're the best. Im glad he grew as a person, but since when did Growth = Passivity? She takes Soos face in her hands as she adds that she has more to tell him, but itll wait until after her surgery. Completely agree, Kaye. I guess they do look like people and act like people then. Yes, so many dangling threads, holes where we just don't know - drama is pretty but tattered. And that took a lot of skill. The show was very beautiful to look at. A coastal region, for instance, undergoes changes in wind direction daily. If he didn't I'd have to wrestle with that scene. I love you, very much. Soo pulls her into an embrace even as he cant help but crying, and he repeats over and over again, I love you. I thought that you may not like me when you see me. When Young scoffs at this, he asks, Does that mean you like me?. He acted well but he still not converting me as one of his fans. This ambiguous ending reminds me of "Ironweed" by William Kennedy. Not Soo asks her if she cant see, and she responds by asking if hes ever met a blind person. I don't buy that Young is done with her suicidal tendencies, but she seems a lot happier probably because before she was so untrustworthy and felt like everyone was out to kill her anyway, but now she's starting to trust people and she's more at ease. Because, it was so sweet but then it was so BLURRY! :(, HAHAHAHAHAH! Seriously I kept fast forwarding cuz there was nothing intriguing. Klasikong Pelikula. bubble tea consumption statistics australia. Danny has been going off for days about the meteor shower that will happen tonight, but no one can watch it with him. Nothing tells you, you want to live more than nearly dying. Am I suppose to just forget all that? Having Soo say he made a mistake is kind of the show telling everyone to forgive her. Sigh! I felt that the plot and the characterizations started to fall apart in the last episodes. It is so illogical and stupid, it is almost a sort of evil in itself. Youngs self-realizations werent dependent on her as an individual, and her decision to live didnt come from a place of autonomous empowerment or anything befitting the idea of character growth, because her change in tempo was dependent on Soos reactions. This drama ranks highest on my melo-meter since the only others I've seen are Nice Guy and I Miss You. But, to be perfectly honest, I wasn't thinking about her hair at all this episode, haha. Even if you didnt take the money, it wont bring everything back to the way it was.. Well, he already knew he wanted her to stay with him (forever), so why not have her answer then and there? I remember reading an interview with NHK from several years ago in which she said that her aim was to write characters whom viewers could understand (and empathize with). She listens, as in it, Soo tells her what weve heard him say before about how his outlook on life changed when he met her. It was so slow and we were made to think that OS died, because JS didn't seem to do anything to help him and yet, he didn't gut him a 2nd time, which seems like he wanted him to live. Oh well. CLASIC PINOY COMEDY MOVIE - Hotdog. It is also in the mind of the person a VIABLE solution to their problem. Wang's crimes. She can write characters with extremely logical and complex psyche, even the baddies. Maybe you can pretend her long hair is a wig, LOL. Another obvious thing was the discussion between jin sung and jung eun, they were obviously reffering to his grave (why didnt they get married as they planned if things settle down?) It centered around an elderly couple then one day, word came out that war would break out in three days.
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