LilMeggs
San Jose, CA
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Found this on on Tiktok, came for Kim So Hyun, continued to watch for Ji Soo.
This was a cute and quick short story drama about three students who lives were forever changed by one another, each finding their own love/relationships with performing the piano. Yoo Seul was born a prodigy, but hated performing due to the intense pressure her mother put on her. Jin Mok loved playing the piano, but was always told he would amount to nothing by Yoo Seul, her mother (his old piano teacher) as well as his father, and always came in second to Yoo Seul. Cha Sik was an aspiring Olympian, but after an accident, he wanted to feel closer to his birth father and decided to take up the piano.
All teenagers went through their own trauma, but when Cha Sik came into their lives, he helped unknowingly reignite Yoo Seul's passion for the piano as well as put Jin Mok in a position where he got praise from the people he always wanted reassurance from. I love love loved Cha Sik;s positive energy, as he always made every situation into a positive one, and always put 110% into his goals, either is be learning the piano in a short amount of time, or proving to Yoo Seul that she had made teh right decision trusting him to be her eyes. I loved that even though Cha Sik was going through his own internal struggle with his dreams taken away from him, he saw Yoo Seul's new reality, and wanted to help her out, to hopefully bring a smile to her face. I don't think there was an evil bone in his body, and always did everything for others, even though Jin Mok thought he was this loud mouthed selfish guy, and I cried at the end when we finally saw him breakdown.
I loved the ending, and I understand why everything happened the way it did. It gave everyone their own version of a happy ending, but I would be lying if I said that what Cha Sik gave up didn't mess with my heartstrings. But at the same time, I also don't think he really gave up anything, but in turn gave two other people an opportunity to fall back in love with the piano again, but on their own terms and together.
But with that, I had so many questions about the ending. Like did Yoo Seul every figure out who she was performing with? And based on that answer, what were the relationships of everything after that? I wanted a classic happy ending, knowing that everyone was together and happy, but instead we got a different version of a happy ending. Satisfying, but because I fell in love with Cha Sik, I wanted to know what happened to him and if he got his version of a happy ending. Did he get into music school or is piano now more a hobby? Is he still Yoo Seul's aid? Are Yoo Seul and him still friends after she found out what he did, or was that information never disclosed? and if it wasn't, what of Jin Mok and her's new relationship? Not saying that the ending we got wasn't satisficing, but it left so many open ended questions...but I guess his lie wouldn't have been as bad as the lie his mother told him in order to motivated him to play the piano...because that was rough.
This was a cute and quick short story drama about three students who lives were forever changed by one another, each finding their own love/relationships with performing the piano. Yoo Seul was born a prodigy, but hated performing due to the intense pressure her mother put on her. Jin Mok loved playing the piano, but was always told he would amount to nothing by Yoo Seul, her mother (his old piano teacher) as well as his father, and always came in second to Yoo Seul. Cha Sik was an aspiring Olympian, but after an accident, he wanted to feel closer to his birth father and decided to take up the piano.
All teenagers went through their own trauma, but when Cha Sik came into their lives, he helped unknowingly reignite Yoo Seul's passion for the piano as well as put Jin Mok in a position where he got praise from the people he always wanted reassurance from. I love love loved Cha Sik;s positive energy, as he always made every situation into a positive one, and always put 110% into his goals, either is be learning the piano in a short amount of time, or proving to Yoo Seul that she had made teh right decision trusting him to be her eyes. I loved that even though Cha Sik was going through his own internal struggle with his dreams taken away from him, he saw Yoo Seul's new reality, and wanted to help her out, to hopefully bring a smile to her face. I don't think there was an evil bone in his body, and always did everything for others, even though Jin Mok thought he was this loud mouthed selfish guy, and I cried at the end when we finally saw him breakdown.
I loved the ending, and I understand why everything happened the way it did. It gave everyone their own version of a happy ending, but I would be lying if I said that what Cha Sik gave up didn't mess with my heartstrings. But at the same time, I also don't think he really gave up anything, but in turn gave two other people an opportunity to fall back in love with the piano again, but on their own terms and together.
But with that, I had so many questions about the ending. Like did Yoo Seul every figure out who she was performing with? And based on that answer, what were the relationships of everything after that? I wanted a classic happy ending, knowing that everyone was together and happy, but instead we got a different version of a happy ending. Satisfying, but because I fell in love with Cha Sik, I wanted to know what happened to him and if he got his version of a happy ending. Did he get into music school or is piano now more a hobby? Is he still Yoo Seul's aid? Are Yoo Seul and him still friends after she found out what he did, or was that information never disclosed? and if it wasn't, what of Jin Mok and her's new relationship? Not saying that the ending we got wasn't satisficing, but it left so many open ended questions...but I guess his lie wouldn't have been as bad as the lie his mother told him in order to motivated him to play the piano...because that was rough.
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