I have a new drama love
Dec. 8th, 2009 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI haven't posted much yet about Will It Snow For Christmas but I really should, seeing how much I love it.
What i really love about it is, despite what I am sure will be a melodramatic plot of some sort, is the reality of these characters. I love the child versions of protagonists.
Take the heroine (she is what, 14-15?) - she is so real, from her angry outburst at seeing her older brother's banner torn up, to the oh-too-real yearning to get back her similarly young boyfriend who now likes another girl, to complaining to her best friend, to hero-worship of her brother, to pushing hero into a ditch and being scared she went too far but covering it. She is a very very real teen girl, a little stolid and determined and I love her.
And I love the younger version of the hero too, so very much - mainly because underneath all that barely controlled anger (his mother is...ahem...bar-girl would be a nice way to put it, and while his half-brother is matter-of-fact about it and the humiliations she suffers, he is not), there is a certain basic niceness which can't get erased no matter what (see how he offers to help heroine re: banner). Plus the contrast between his potential (he finished first in his past school) and reality (all those expulsions due to fighting - probably because of his mother's status). I don't know - he feels real too. The scene when he sees his mother set up a sign in their new town for a brothel and he asks her about her telling him earlier she would open a restaurant, and she flies off the handle saying that would be boring - and his reaction. It's such a little scene, he doesn't really say anything, but it just got me and wouldn't let go. And her telling him not to get expelled again and his comment on her lipstick. This is going to sound odd but it had an almost indie-movie vibe to it.
Anyway, this drama is so very good. Watch it!
What i really love about it is, despite what I am sure will be a melodramatic plot of some sort, is the reality of these characters. I love the child versions of protagonists.
Take the heroine (she is what, 14-15?) - she is so real, from her angry outburst at seeing her older brother's banner torn up, to the oh-too-real yearning to get back her similarly young boyfriend who now likes another girl, to complaining to her best friend, to hero-worship of her brother, to pushing hero into a ditch and being scared she went too far but covering it. She is a very very real teen girl, a little stolid and determined and I love her.
And I love the younger version of the hero too, so very much - mainly because underneath all that barely controlled anger (his mother is...ahem...bar-girl would be a nice way to put it, and while his half-brother is matter-of-fact about it and the humiliations she suffers, he is not), there is a certain basic niceness which can't get erased no matter what (see how he offers to help heroine re: banner). Plus the contrast between his potential (he finished first in his past school) and reality (all those expulsions due to fighting - probably because of his mother's status). I don't know - he feels real too. The scene when he sees his mother set up a sign in their new town for a brothel and he asks her about her telling him earlier she would open a restaurant, and she flies off the handle saying that would be boring - and his reaction. It's such a little scene, he doesn't really say anything, but it just got me and wouldn't let go. And her telling him not to get expelled again and his comment on her lipstick. This is going to sound odd but it had an almost indie-movie vibe to it.
Anyway, this drama is so very good. Watch it!
