Has anyone seen Winter Sonata? What is it about and is it good?
I rarely watch dramas, even less Korean dramas, and Winter Sonata is the first Korean drama I've watched in its entirety, and a 20-episode series is just too long for me. Winter Love Song is a story set in winter: in middle school, Sang-hyuk (Park Yong-ha) and But-jin (Choi Ji-woo) are best friends and lovers in class, and they often do activities together, which teachers and classmates don't even know about. However, their sweet school love is changed by one person. On this day, the handsome teenager Kang Joon Sang (Bae Yong Joon) transferred to the class of Sang Hyuk and Yeo Jin. As the story develops, Joon Sang and Yeo Jin become a pair of lovers, and, in Yeo Jin's opinion, Joon Sang is her first love. On Christmas Eve, Joon-sang's mother decides to send Joon-sang to the United States to prevent him from recognizing his real father. Before leaving, Joon-sang gets into a car accident while he is on his way to meet Yoo-jin, and Yoo-jin is devastated by the news of his death from his mother. In the following days, although Sang-hyuk is infatuated with Yoo-jin, Yoo-jin is always thinking about Jun-sang, who has already died. Ten years have passed, and the former teenagers have grown up. Junsang's mother returns to Korea with her husband, whom she met in the United States, along with their son, Lee Minhyung. At a cocktail party, Yoo-jin meets Lee Min-hyeong and realizes that he is the "Kang Joon-sang" who claimed to be dead that day! However, "Kang Joon Sang" has no memory of Yoo Jin. ...... A love story with twists and turns unfolds. The soundtrack of the drama, the soothing piano music, creates a fairy tale-like beautiful love story, such as the drama's beautiful winter flavor and lingering love is as beautiful and moving, touching, sincere and touching. As the drama "Winter Sonata" is the strongest wave of "Korean wave" in 2002. To be honest, I also listened to the song before paying attention to this TV series, "Winter Love Song" theme song will be the affectionate music and classic images once again treasured in the heart, so that this innocent love will never be forgotten. The images are beautiful, combining "love" and "scenery" skillfully, which is one of the characteristics of the Korean version of the romantic drama, and "Winter Love Song" will play this characteristic to the extreme: public **** car, ski slopes, snowy scenery by the river, the radio studio, the island where the two of them are dating. ...... Everything has a change of light and shadow, everything is to emphasize the sincerity of the hero and heroine's love. The snowy scene is like a poem: a flurry of snowflakes, a large amount of smoke, the calmness of the winter sea, the warmth of the sun, and even the warmth of the sunshine, and even the breath exhaled by each other when they meet in the street ...... Everything has infinite warmth, and everything is to show the fidelity of the hero and heroine's love. It is said that after "Winter Love Song" triggered the strongest wave of "Korean Wave" in 2002, it attracted tourists from all over the world to watch the filming location just to pursue this magical and touching love, which made some unknown places such as Nanyi Island, Chuncheon Myeong-dong, Yongpyeong, and the big skiing area become scenic spots, which can also be said to be a microcosm of the success of "Winter Love Song". The success of "Winter Sonata" can also be said to be epitomized. Winter Love Song" is a love story that spans 10 years and coincides with the white and crystalline snowflakes in winter, and Jun Sang and Yoojin's love is also like the snow in the sky, without a trace of impurity. Choi Ji Woo easily captured the hearts of viewers with her delicate, touching, and in-your-face performance, showing the innocence and carefree nature of a teenager and the elegant sensibility of an adult. The male lead in Winter Sonata is Kang Joon Sang, played by Bae Yong Joon. I've always had preconceived notions about men with long hair, thinking that such men are unorthodox and lack the masculinity of men. But Bae Yong Joon is an alternative, he is a very gentle and elegant feeling, and dyed long hair is very cooperative, and does not have that kind of bad man feeling, but rather that kind of very gentleman very clean feeling. I see online a woman is this evaluation of him, "Bae Yong Joon is not the kind of first glance let you like the man, but with the depth of time, you will unconsciously be attracted to him, his gentleman, his body exudes a kind of wisdom, integrity of the light of the blank, in the unknowing you will fall in love with him." I remember watching "Love Hotel" on a random occasion, and watching just the scene where Jen-in falls into the pool, and Dong-hyun picks her up in the water, looks at her with all four eyes, and then displays a compassionate smile that shows off his masculinity to the fullest. Comparing his roles in Winter Love Song and Love Hotel, Shin Dong Hyun is as wise and cold as a hawk, while Kang Joon Sang is as perfect and affectionate as a deer. Dong Hyun only shed tears twice in the entire drama: once when he saw his real father, who had abandoned him, remove his eyes and wipe away his tears, and once when he pleaded with Jinyin to come back to him, shedding a single tear in the dim light. Joon Sang is y emotional, will not hide his feelings, his tears are often like a dike of water, this man's tears surprisingly make people also follow the more heartbreaking In fact, initially attracted me to watch the reason is because Yoo Jin crying waiting for Joon Sang for ten years, because of waiting, because of the ten years, the society is so complicated, Yoo Jin waited for ten years, suddenly there is a kind of unspeakable touch. This reminds me of a character story of Ancient Greek Mythology - Penelope. Penelope is the cousin of Helen, who was the most beautiful woman in Greece at that time, and she was also the bane of the famous Trojan War. As the crowd vied for Helen's favor, Penelope was promised to Odysseus. Odysseus was a cunning man who knew that Helen would never choose him, so he set his sights on Penelope. However, his move was a good one, and ten years after the end of the Trojan War, he was the only one to return home safely without being cuckolded. Not to mention the propriety of the era, in terms of affection, Odysseus left Penelope for the war when she was at the right age, and even twenty years later, she had countless suitors. There was no pretense, no artifice, and when Odysseus appeared before her eyes, she remained firm and persistent. What kind of touching steadfastness is it for a woman of her age to be asked to wait ten years? During the ten long years of Jun Sang's absence, Yoo Jin struggled to live on the memory of Jun Sang. For Yoojin, the Junsang in her heart has always remained at the age of eighteen. That lonely, melancholic, forlorn Jun Sang, who lived in the world of shadows, made Yoojin's eyes misty with tears every time she thought of him. No matter how time passes, no matter how things change, Jun Sang will always be in her heart and never leave. This is an image from the first episode: Chuncheon in late fall is really beautiful, the sky is very high and blue, the air is very clean, accompanied by the sound of birds chirping and quietly falling yellow leaves, the clear and slightly blue lake, the dazzling sunlight cast on the water ...... Junsang and her, walking slowly, the leaves under their feet from time to time make a squeaky sound. His hair hung low on his forehead, covering his eyes, and he had both hands in his pockets. "Ever heard of a shadow story?" He asked softly. "There was a man who went to the shadow world. There, not a single person spoke to him ......" After finishing, he looked up at her with a helpless and self-deprecating smile, "It's boring, isn't it?" Many years later, when Wei-Jin was alone, she would always remember this story that Jun-Shang had told. She relived it in her mind over and over again, thinking about the way Jun Sang was talking about it at the time. How she wanted to tell everything about Jun Sang to someone else. The story of that lonely, sad teenager who has lived in her heart for ten years, she really wants to tell it, so that she can, perhaps, not miss it so much that she can't breathe Ten years after the car accident, Yoo-jin is getting ready to get engaged to Sang-hyuk, and when she encounters a familiar back figure on her way to the bus, she gets off the bus in spite of everything to look for it. "Ten years of my life after he left seemed like just one day, nothing has changed in ten years, the only thing that has changed is that I've made sure he's no longer with me, so I can live ten years as if it were one day, but how much longer can I live like this?" That's what Ui-jin said in the original, not in the drama. When Yoojin finally realizes that Lee Minhyung is Kang Joon Sang, she goes to the airport to find Minhyung against all odds, and Yoojin cries and tells Joon Sang, "For ten years, she constantly wanted to shout the name Kang Joon Sang out loud but never dared to because she was afraid that no one would say yes." This is the result of Yew Jin's difficulty in forgetting her Joong Sang and her first love. First love is wonderful for everyone, and it's also etched in stone. The oldest old man, perhaps a lot of things will be forgotten, but often recall the appearance and smile of his first love. Recently, an "octogenarian looking for his first love girlfriend" news on the Internet is spreading: now living in Shenzhen, the octogenarian Ma Defeng to look for his first love girlfriend who has been attached to him for 47 years ....... First love even changed our whole life, become an indispensable part of our life memories. What is first love to you and me? I dare not say, but for Weizhen and Junsang is eternal loyalty, lifelong attachment! It can be said that first love are buried in the depths of our hearts, just like what Vaijin said, "For people who love each other, each other's heart is the best house." Natural, pure first love, just as the "Winter Sonata" described the same picture: late fall dusk sunset, empty and silent campus, dark piano room, lonely piano, bowed down to play the piano of the young man, the sunlight gilded on the side of the face of the radiance of the sad, melodious sound of the piano ....... A touch of sunset shot in, shining on his good-looking side face, he focused on playing, the sound of the piano echoed in the empty piano room. She looked at him dumbfounded, and a reddish haze quietly rose on her face. If anything has changed without her realizing it, it is that the two hearts are gradually getting closer. Piano, for Yuzhen, has always had a special sentiment. It was a door, and opening it, she entered Junsang's heart for the first time. There, she saw that hidden in his melancholy eyes was the sadness of loneliness and helplessness, and saw that under his cold exterior was a heart that longed for warmth. It turned out that he was this lonely ...... Looking at such Jun Sang, Yoojin felt her heart so sour and painful, looking at his hand on the piano keys, she wanted to hold it tightly, tightly. "The First Time", the tune Jun Sang played to her, the first melody etched in her life. The first flutter, the first thumping heartbeat, the first blush, the first miss ...... The countless firsts in her life form that long ladder in Yoojin's memories, step by step, step by step, towards that period of youthfulness with Junsang. As a movie line to explain: "Our love , just like the wind , I can't see it , but I can feel it ......" So it seems, the first love is a how complicated and sacred process, and it all can only be a The first love is such a complicated and sacred process, and it can only be carried out by a person secretly, quietly, but also heartfelt. ...... Yujin is living in the shadow of her first love. As for whether we should follow the feelings of our first love like a shadow? I do not want to analyze the value orientation, to tell a "ancient Greek mythology" about Narcissus (Narcissus) of the shadow of the story: Echo Echo is Zeus side of a goddess, she can endlessly tell some very interesting things, but because of the help of Zeus cheating on his wife, Hera was deprived of the right to initiate speech. It was a terrible thing, and from then on, she could only repeat what others had said, like a living machine, the same echo we hear when we shout loudly to the valley. Perhaps that was her fate; then she met and fell in love with Nakkasos, but could only sneak up behind him and get his attention by shaking the bushes. Nakkasos heard the noise and asked loudly, "Is there anyone here?" It took Erco a moment to respond with a shaky, "Is there anyone here!" She stepped out from behind the tree where she was hiding and ran toward Nakkasos with open arms, wanting to say, "Let's get together!" But it wouldn't come out. In fact, Nakkasos was an extremely proud man. He dodged Erko and shouted, "Don't touch me, I'd rather die than be with you!" Poor Ecco could say nothing, except to repeat half of the words of Narcissus, "I would rather die than make love to you." At last she went away in silence, but day by day she grew thinner and thinner, and her whole body became shriveled up with grief, and at last she dried up all her tears and turned to stone. In order to punish the haughty Nachasus for his hard-heartedness, Zeus caused him to contract a strange love. It is said that one day, Narcissus came to a clean and clear, calm as a mirror next to the spring. Trees cover the spring water is clear and sweet, the spring side of the grass composed of the crown reflected in the water. As he wanted to drink from the clear water, he lay down on the grass by the spring and put his head into the water. At that moment, he saw his own reflection in the clear spring. He had a sudden hallucination, and moved before the shadow, admiring the appearance of this reflection to the extent that he was in a trance. His body gradually lost weight, and his face became emaciated, as if frost and snow were slowly melting in the sun. Finally, he died of emaciation due to his love for his reflection in the water. His sisters, the goddesses of the waters of Na?ades, cut off their own hair and placed it on his grave as a sign of mourning. Then they piled up a heap of firewood and prepared to burn the body of Nachasus. Just as they were about to carry away his body, a yellow and white flower suddenly grew in the place where the body was parked. Later, people named this flower after the characters of Narcissus, which is what we call daffodils (Narcissus) today. When the infatuation of Ecco meets the loneliness of Narcissus, it is destined to have a sad ending, I appreciate her innocence and lament her thin life. As a goddess herself, she could have gone to her sister Aphrodite and borrowed Eros's belt, which can make everyone (including gods) fall in love, to get Narcissus, but she didn't do it. In that kind of desire flow of God's world, in that kind of God's world that can do whatever it takes, her innocence and persistence shows so a kind of tragic greatness. Perhaps this is the real love, not like Aphrodite's affair with Ares, the god of war, or Paris's infatuation with Helen, who triggered the Battle of Troy, love only means giving, giving, and making the other person happy, not getting, not owning, not dominating! As for me, Winter Sonata is like daffodil love. I like to listen to the music and theme song of "Winter Sonata" quietly by myself when there are no other people. Although I have passed the age of the wind and snow, I am still a person who is easy to be touched and easy to shed tears. Only in the rain falling Dingling late at night, soak a cup of strong Guanyin tea, I quietly think of the "Winter Love Song" brought by the moving.