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I loved this drama to bits, but not for the reasons I was meant to.Imagine you are sold a book with the cover of a travel guide & on reading discover that in fact it contains a lãng mạn novel. You are captivated by the story và read it lớn the end, but you"ll have to lớn go out again to buy that travel book you didn"t get in the first place.That"s exactly what happens when you start watching Scent of a Woman. You prepare yourself for a thắm thiết comedy and find out that there isn"t even a hint of comedy. The scenes which are meant to elicit a laugh range from painfully embarrassing khổng lồ bitter-sweet.But I loved it nonetheless. If the definition existed, I"d call this drama an "urgent passion". Urgency is the undercurrent of the whole show, to lớn the point as a viewer I found myself praying for more time along the main female character. And passion for life is the glue that keeps all plot lines together.The actors are amazing. All of them. I can safely say this is the best acted drama I"ve seen in a while. If you want to lớn feel true empathy, cry, smile, grit your teeth or fall in love, watch this. The chemistry between the leads is tangible, & it grows so subtly and gradually it becomes a natural process in their story. I understood why they loved each other và not because the writer wanted me to, but because they were so incredibly believable.The same applies lớn all the secondary characters. You"ll grow to lớn love them or hate them, they are not bi-dimensional people. They stay consistent to lớn their nature and when/if they change they vị so without pomp or unbelievable u-turns.And I love that the message of this show is not a simple "live your life to lớn the fullest". There"s so much more. As I see it, the main theme of Scent of a Woman is: we are not alone here; everything we do, & the way we vì it, effects the lives of those around us in a huge domino effect.Message subtly told và beautifully executed.Photography and attention khổng lồ details are spotless. I didn"t really care for the music, but this is just me. It was chosen with sense & I appreciated the fact that it was in line with the show: elegant. I"m glad they didn"t go for any lalala pop song, which would have ruined the mood.Without spoiling the kết thúc of it, I need to say the last episode was simply perfect & beautiful, one of the reasons why I"m giving the drama a full 10.Therefore, I"m going out now khổng lồ buy that travel guide book I wanted, but I"ll keep this beautiful love story bought by mistake on my shelf, for future re-reading/watching.

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Scent of a Woman 여인의 향기 (2011) SBS 16 Episodes Romance, Melodrama, Comedy Masterpiece, Grade: A+
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Korean Drama đánh giá by Jill, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I first watched the Korean thắm thiết melodrama Scent of a Woman
(2011) in late 2011 on Streaming Netflix with a friend, & then re-watched it by myself in early 2014, so some time had passed between viewings and I was ready to re-affirm how much I had liked it the first time. I fell in love with it even more the second time around! This is an incredibly powerful, magnetic, beautiful drama và sensual love story that you don"t see everyday, one that is unforgettable và timeless, especially for people lượt thích me who have been through a cancer battle. The Story: For the woman in this drama, Yeon Jae Lee (stunning actress Sun Ah Kim from the famous K-drama My Lovely Sam Soon), her cancer diagnosis did not define her life but instead gave her the courage khổng lồ finally live a full life và fulfill all her hidden dreams and desires in a written "bucket list", a danh mục of things she wanted to experience before she passed on. However the emphasis is not on her illness or even the outcome, but on her growing inner strength và tenacity, which then shines forth from her formerly mousy face & makes it glowingly beautiful. She puts away the dull, monotonous, safe little life she had been living và reaches for happiness with every ounce of her being. It was so inspiring!
There are definitely some feminist overtones here: for instance, she had been receiving sexual taunts from her boss khủng Sang Shik Noh (Jung Geun Shin) for a long time, but chose khổng lồ put up with it, but after being diagnosed as terminal she finally had the courage lớn accuse him publicly and demand that he stop. She quits her office job và takes the $30,000 in her bank account, gets her hair done, buys a new wardrobe, và goes on vacation to an exotic beachside resort in Japan, the first time she had ever left Korea in her life. There she meets the love of her life, Ji Wook Kang (handsome Dong Wook Lee), the son of the president of her former company, who was there on a trip too. Yeon Jae, now a transformed woman who looks lượt thích a model, boldly follows him around and strikes up conversations with him and he becomes intrigued with her. She chooses not lớn tell him she has cancer, since she never expects their relationship to last, nor does she seem khổng lồ care too much that he has a beautiful fiance back home, Se Kyung lặng (Hyo Rin Seo from That Winter, The Wind Blows
), who might just be jealous that he seems lớn be falling in love with another woman. Yeon Jae is all too aware that the engagement is tenuous at best, and in reality merely a business arrangement. Se Kyung even shows up in nhật bản at the resort to see Ji Wook và finds him deeply involved with this other woman, but unlike her fiance, she recognizes Yeon Jae as a former worker at his company & tells her lớn leave him alone. Ooops! too late, Se Kyung, the match has been struck và the principal players are about to lớn throw gasoline on the flame lớn create an explosion!
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Once back home Yeon Jae continues to fulfill her bucket list, such as learning how to lớn dance. She joins a class lớn learn Spanish style dancing & starts to show some talent for tango dancing. Her oncologist, Eun Suk Chae (sensitive actor Ki Joon Uhm from Dream High
), who was her classmate in school & now her doctor, is secretly attracted to lớn her và through the cancer treatments he gives her he grows closer to her emotionally. His monster at the hospital is well aware that this doctor has a poor bedside manner with patients & orders him to find something in his life outside of medicine to become good at, hoping it will humanize him. He decides to lớn take the nhảy classes with Yeon Jae, & they actually become pretty proficient together, & even dance together at a hospital benefit.
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However Yeon Jae"s romantic relationship with Ji Wook didn"t kết thúc when they returned to lớn Korea, and he too enrolls in the dancing classes, but with the ulterior motive of getting even closer to Yeon Jae. Meanwhile, Yeon Jae STILL doesn"t tell Ji Wook the truth of what she is facing, although sometimes she does have trouble hiding the fact from him that she is in pain. When she tries to back off from Ji Wook, because she needs some space khổng lồ breathe, he is having none of it. He marches into the dance school when Yeon Jae is alone practicing her dance steps and then one of the most memorable scenes in all K-drama history takes place, the tango dance to the tuy nhiên Santa Maria (episode eight of sixteen).
Regarding the whole cancer situation in this drama: there were some things that were not realistic, for instance, Yeon Jae didn"t thất bại her hair while on chemo, but on the other hand she was choosing more minimally invasive treatments because her doctor told her she was terminal anyway; the idea was khổng lồ prolong her life, not cure her, since there was no cure; so that might have been the main reason a person lượt thích Yeon Jae would not chiến bại her hair.
Although Scent Of A Woman
is partly a show about illness, it is also a show about compassion, love, forgiveness, sensuality, ambition, friendship, honesty, và all those lovely intangibles people generally don"t think about until they get sick and finally realize that each day we are given on earth is a gift, that there are no guarantees we will even be alive tomorrow. In that respect we are ALL terminal. The character of Yeon Jae understands this; she is so brave that even when she makes mistakes, lượt thích in prolonging telling her boyfriend or her mother Soon Jung Kim (nicely played by veteran actress Hye Ok Kim, who also played a great villainess in Bad Guy) about her cancer diagnosis, we can understand her xúc tích behind her decision, & forgive her for it. One of the most realistic scenes in the drama is when Ji Wook finally learns the truth: that the woman he loves is terminal. In many other K-dramas you"d probably see the lover or husband being totally understanding và supportive. But Ji Wook is ANGRY. Justifiably so, I thought. "Why did you make me care about you?" he cries out lớn her, as she stands there in tears, hooked up lớn her IV pole. "When did you know? Did you know when we were in Japan?" She answers in the affirmative. His mind cannot grasp that she never told him, never warned him. He walks away from her in tears, rejecting her. Yes, he was selfish, but he was HONEST. He would have possibly made another decision not to lớn see her anymore if he knew right from the beginning that she was going to die. I thought that scene so remarkable. I could see people in "real life" feeling the same way Ji Wook felt. His feelings are not sugar-coated. He eventually does forgive her and goes back khổng lồ her, and their relationship actually develops into a rock solid one by the end, but it"s not a straight và narrow path lớn Happiness.
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I really cannot adequately sum up my admiration for how the leads in this show portrayed their characters. The passion they brought khổng lồ their roles was so real & palatable, it practically jumped off the screen at you. I also loved all the settings of the drama, & all the actors; even the bitchy fiance was somewhat sympathetic because she was so desperate. Once SHE learned Yeon Jae was dying she couldn"t actively hate her any longer. I loved the tango dancing & the entire music score of this show! Also a nice moment in the show was a guest appearance by the K-pop star Junso, who took Yeon Jae khổng lồ dinner after she won a fan hâm mộ contest, & sang the title song "You Are So Beautiful" into her cell phone so that she could listen khổng lồ him sing it to lớn her whenever she wanted afterward. Ahhhhhhhh................... Don"t miss Scent Of A Woman
. It"s remarkable.