Doramas + Pondering about bad endings

[alexandral]

+ I am feeling a little bit tired because I am watching doramas (Asian dramas) like crazy. I have almost watched through the half of "It started with the kiss" . And this Taiwanese drama is truly lovely. It has an absolutely adorable main female lead (Ariel Lin) and an absolutely gorgeous main male lead (Joe Cheng). Plus abundance of fresh and hitting-home jokes. Plus important questions about finding your way in life. And it is also full of love , friendship, family relationships and all other things.

Small photo essay of the lovely stolen kiss from It started with the kiss:

Adorable Xiang Qin just rescued Zhi Shu's little brother. Xiang Qin /Zhi Shu are in the hospital near little brother's sickbed:



Zhi Shu looks at Xiang Qin and says that she is "Adorable hardworking idiot". He really means he loves her :) . He just doesn't know it yet because he is so clever and his brain is so big that he doesn't know how his own emotions work



And he just feels he must gaze at her a little longer:



And he feels that must lean forward and be close to her



Awww! KISSSSSSSSSS!



And he doesn't just jump away, he lingers



Meep - His little brother awoke and saw everything!



+ But I did all the ironing plus all the tidying and all such things. I just slept less.

+ Tomorrow I have to go to the doctor to do my regular cervix cancer check-up ( Everybody in UK does it every 3 years). I am not particular looking forward to the procedure, but well –one has to things one has to do :)

+ I have started watching a wonderful drama with Takyua Kimura – "Beautiful Life". I hope it has a good ending!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Pondering about bad endings in films and literature

I used to think that Asian dramas always have a good ending. I was very wrong. Last week I was thinking that my tolerance for the bad endings became very low since I have moved to UK. For Russian films or books bad or uncertain endings are very common. But over 8 years I got used to predictability, to good endings, to Hollywood and TV.

I must say openly – I DO NOT LIKE BAD ENDINGS! Especially when someone dies or does mentally ill or else. I get so immersed into the fictional world that when my favourite character dies it is like a death of my good friend. I can’t accept it whatever the author was trying to say!!

Some book’s endings are so bad that I will never agree to accept them:

1. “Idiot” by Dostoevsky
2. “Jude Obscure” by Thomas Hardy
3. “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
4. “Gone with the wind” by Margaret Mitchell

But it also crossed my mind that when my heart is hurt by someone’s fictional dying it could be that this makes my heart better somehow. More compassionate. More understanding of people’s hurts. ** Sigh **

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Meep. I think you tried to warn me but I didn't heed. Pleeeese , tell me all - is she going to die? ** Sniff ** If I will get prepared I can cope better.

I keep seeing the adverts on d-addicts (good downloads web-site) for "A Sleeping Forest" which looks good to me. Kimura is awesome and I am going to watch it too I think.

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

Do you really want me to tell you????? You know I don't mind being spoiled, but I feel terrible about spoiling!!!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Totally! I love spoilers, especially for the BAD endings - I can get prepared and construct the explanation this way :)

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

OK I don't know how far along you are, but there's a bit in the series where she shows up at his house and they spend romantic time together. He says he wants to own his own hair salon, small, by the beach, with a bell on the door etc.

She does die and it's really sad (and I cried), but then right at the end, he does open up his own place and he looks so cute and you get the sense that he has found his peace. :'(

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.!!! :( I felt this is going to happen. I have watched 2 episodes so far and I like Kyoko so much. It isn't fair that she has to die. They should not be doing this to us ** Shakes her fist at the story writers **