Since I have moved away from my home, family, friends, and home city, I started to feel secluded, lonely. And though I was avoiding getting addicted to Netflix, I ended up watching drama series. At first, I watched series, movies I was apparently listening about, a lot from all over. Then, I tried every genre available out there on Netflix. After some time I found what I really enjoy. I usually crave the subtle feeling of warmth, coziness and to find the same, I literally being-watched Christmas movies 🙂 Very soon there was not a single Christmas movie left to watch. So I had no option other than turning to Korean drama. As I said earlier I am a person of emotions. Korean dramas are the real treat for people like me, as they emotionally resonate with me.
But this is not the first time I was watching K drama series. I fell in love with them a few years back. The first K drama I had watched was “Full house” which made me addicted back then. And it continued afterward. Over the years due to a few reasons, a kind of gap came in. And now when I moved to a different city altogether with no loved ones around, I was again looking for that cozy feeling and I must say the exact same thing is at the heart of Korean drama…like a staple.
Okay, coming straight to the point. All the above babble is just to give the scape to this blog post :p From here onward I am planning to share my thoughts on dramas or movies I have watched in recent times. Seriously after watching a few of them, I have experienced an outburst of emotions and could not bottle-up them. So here is an attempt to put them in my words.
So, I’ll start with a K-drama- The Third Charm which breaks the norms of a traditional Korean love story plot. They say Korean dramas are unrealistic, boring and blah blah. But apparently, this specific drama proved them wrong. It is very realistic and doesn’t have a fairytale ending which makes it different from most of the K dramas. But it’s so good, so real! The last 4 episodes had me crying buckets because Life is like this, with ups and downs, love unreciprocated, guilt, loneliness, finding yourself, love that can never be replaced, loss, etc. Our lives don’t usually turn out the way we want, not all rosy but a resilient spirit and love from your closed ones helped you pull through, and you will still find joy despite all the pain.
Unlike most romantic stories which do not allow a detailed growth on a character’s love perspective, the series took its strength by showing the character development of the love pairing together, and when they were apart from each other. Right from witnessing their flourishing relationship and peak of their romance until its eventual fallout has made me feel like an invisible friend, who still hope that their beautiful romance will be given another chance. Clear on its focus of walking the highs and lows of the love couple’s journey, you would certainly hope for the best that could happen to them, on the pretext that you have followed what they’ve been through, what wrong choices and judgments they have made, and what really makes them happy, but have to let go because of pride, and failing to reconcile it. This drama honestly orchestrated a picture of how love can break a person — and how that same love could make him whole again.
Aside from a healthy dose of heart-fluttering moments I have experienced from The Third Charm, the series skillfully painted a genuine representation of romantic relationship through the varying perspective and maturity of the lead couple. Starting off on bright notes and lively intervals before getting serious in grasping that love is not always a bed of roses, it culminated to a painful nudge that would make you stare blankly somewhere because you could not argue to accept that love has a limitless definition, that most of the time hurts.
Okay, let’s get back to the creators of this realistic love story. Hats off to the narrator who has rendered such a crisp understanding of feelings of their both, their respective perspectives to look at their lives and coming up with their own ways to make justice to the relationship.
Seo Kang Joon is a damn good actor. He has played the male protagonist. I could totally feel the character’s pain. Oh man, I totally heart him! In my next life, I want to marry someone like him. Oh, why next? Why not now though? Jokes apart. Genuinely he deserves the ‘Best K-drama boyfriend’ award for the myriad of emotions he showed in his portrayal of a man, who can never forget the first woman he ever loved.
Same with Esom. Even she has played her part beautifully well. Her dignified acceptance that she lost an important “solace” in her life meant that she had to pick up her broken pieces because the man who could do it did not deserve to do it for her anymore.
According to me, The third charm gives you the sense that, the love lessons cut deep to people who have experienced the anguish that always comes with heartfelt adoration we feel for someone.
Hmm…I would say, The Third Charm is one of my personal favorites among the love stories I’ve seen this year.
Cherished.vision 