La Dolce Vita: hmmmmmm...Dolce indeed.

[dangermousie]

I am very interested in checking out La Dolce Vita, a currently airing kdrama starring Oh Yeon-Soo (Lady Yuhwa in Jumong) and Lee Dong-Wook (Gong-Chan in My Girl).

I am going to wait until it's all completed and subbed because I am bad with waiting and plus have tons of things to do, but it does seem fascinating.

The story revolves around an older woman (OYS) and a younger man (LDW) (there is a 10-year difference between them). Her husband is having an affair with his wife, and LDW decides to pursue OYS as some sort of nebulous revenge, but of course real feelings very quickly develop and the two desperate, messed-up individuals embark on a love story of their own.

It seems to be very good, and also dark and twisty. In fact, I am surprised by how 'grown-up' it is, being a kdrama: not only is adultery actually portrayed positively (OYS' husband is a vile vile person and LDW's wife a tramp) and the lead characters are screwed-up ambivalent individuals who are survivors of various forms of abuse, but they pull no punches in showing the poison of OYS' marriage (at one point there is marital rape, ugh).

And we also get scenes like this:





Oh, Gong-Chan, does Yu-Rin know what you've been up to in her absence? And Lady Yuhwa, we are not even going to address how the mother of a King can engage in such activities :P (I am not completely joking btw. My Girl is such a huge favorite of mine and I adore Gong-Chan so, it's hard for me to imagine him as anything or anyone else. And Lady Yuhwa is also so...Yuhwaish, to me. I know it's ridiculous).



And because I have a thing for men taking care of ladies' feet:



(caps from soompi)

Comments

[catdecember.livejournal.com]

Lee Dong Wook! sold!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

He really is scarily hot.

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

hahaha, another lee dong wook fan here (after my girl ...) I'll have more time this summer I hope and can watch more kdrama.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[sinclair-furie.livejournal.com]

This looks interesting. And um. Hot.

I've never watched any kind of asian drama before, though. Oh dear!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. *tempts*

Do you need me to teach you where and how to dl?

[sinclair-furie.livejournal.com]

well i found a torrent for some eps, and there was a sub file lined to it... i think it was on d-addicts.com. I'm not sure this is the best way of doing it... so slow!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Megaupload is usually faster for me (it's direct dl). Need links?

[sinclair-furie.livejournal.com]

Hm, right now I'm watching episode two streaming... that's probably easiest, as Megaupload requires installing the toolbar to get reasonable speeds.

Also, I would just like to take this moment to bemoan that Lee Dong-Wook has had a silly little mustache the entire time! He looks so scruffy. :(

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know the mustache is annoying. I guess they wanted to make him look disreputable.

[bae-mac.livejournal.com]

*wide-eyed*

LEE DONG WOK and Lady Yuhwa?

HOT!

hmmm..maybe I should check this out...=)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heeeee.

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

OMG shoes. LOVE. Why have I never heard of La Dolce Vita before.. *thinks*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know, it's such a thing of mine.

[outof-focus.livejournal.com]

Ohmygod.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know!

[timescout.livejournal.com]

Not another one!! You really are eeevillll! ;P

Tempting... but I guess I'll wait for more episodes to be subbed. Or so I hope, I have no backbone when it comes to resesting your Kdrama suggestions.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. *tempts*

[littleredrideme.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are probably the sexiest pictures I've seen this week. Didn't know Gong Chan had it in him. Hmmmm. . .
But who is the girl? Can't see her face. I hope she's just as attractive as him then this will be a very pretty drama.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

She is very pretty:



(in Jumong)