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It's all a blur of adorableness and baristas. And I really enjoyed it! VERY much a het romance, not even the token gay character of Victor Victoria, and while there were lots of well drawn non romantic relationships and humour the core of the story (and a fair few of the side stories) is romance. But if you like romance it had oodles of delicious yearning and affection and adorableness and smooches and believably happy endings. There's a few plot holes and it wallows in tropes, I'm not sure how much of my love is a result of being an absolute sucker for 12th Night style plots (though not one woman expresses attraction to her a a guy! Not one! WHAT KIND OF CROSSDRESSING ROMANCE IS THIS).
There's a lot of sexism and heteronormativity, it felt like a relatively progressive story from a heteronormative culture(*) eg the idea of being gay causes MASSIVE angst (though how much people care varies a lot to suit the plot), lots of sketchy behaviour is considered totally normal/romantic etc (I was warned that men in Korean dramas grab women's wrists all the time and they really do omg), but there's a fair few really great and complex female characters and there is a heavy emphasis on the importance of men not trying too hard to control their female partners. It's sympathetic to all it's characters and takes all their relationships seriously. Even the other female corner of the love quadrangle, a workaholic artist who cheated on and dumped her long suffering boyfriend, is three dimensional and sympathetic.
Aside from men physically pushing around women more than I like, there some medical things some people may find upsetting, and I've seen warnings for the toilet humour/body fluid stuff though it didn't seem so bad to me.
So if the love story of an androgynous female taekwondo instructor who crossdresses to get a job at a coffee shop and gets into shenanigans with her lego-loving jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold boss sounds appealing, go watch it :) Also since Cam didn't realise from my last post: it's live action! See how pretty the cast is.
The US ads were surreal. Products I've never heard of! Prescription MS meds! Good moms keeping a fridge full of little bottles of water for their kids!
Also, the fact that I knew NO KOREAN AT ALL going in made me realise how much more of a feel for Japanese I've picked up from anime etc. Even by the end I was having trouble distinguishing which sequence of sounds was the name I could see right on the screen.
(*)I can't tell if it's more heteronormative than the romances I'm used to, or just differently so.
There's a lot of sexism and heteronormativity, it felt like a relatively progressive story from a heteronormative culture(*) eg the idea of being gay causes MASSIVE angst (though how much people care varies a lot to suit the plot), lots of sketchy behaviour is considered totally normal/romantic etc (I was warned that men in Korean dramas grab women's wrists all the time and they really do omg), but there's a fair few really great and complex female characters and there is a heavy emphasis on the importance of men not trying too hard to control their female partners. It's sympathetic to all it's characters and takes all their relationships seriously. Even the other female corner of the love quadrangle, a workaholic artist who cheated on and dumped her long suffering boyfriend, is three dimensional and sympathetic.
Aside from men physically pushing around women more than I like, there some medical things some people may find upsetting, and I've seen warnings for the toilet humour/body fluid stuff though it didn't seem so bad to me.
So if the love story of an androgynous female taekwondo instructor who crossdresses to get a job at a coffee shop and gets into shenanigans with her lego-loving jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold boss sounds appealing, go watch it :) Also since Cam didn't realise from my last post: it's live action! See how pretty the cast is.
The US ads were surreal. Products I've never heard of! Prescription MS meds! Good moms keeping a fridge full of little bottles of water for their kids!
Also, the fact that I knew NO KOREAN AT ALL going in made me realise how much more of a feel for Japanese I've picked up from anime etc. Even by the end I was having trouble distinguishing which sequence of sounds was the name I could see right on the screen.
(*)I can't tell if it's more heteronormative than the romances I'm used to, or just differently so.
