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MatildediShabran

MatildediShabran

Eve korean drama review
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Eve
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by MatildediShabran
Jul 22, 2022
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
This review may contain spoilers

Seduce To Conquer

Typical grow-up and return to revenge K-drama, done unusually well in a lot of ways.

Every character in this drama was acted to perfection, with the exception of maybe the annoying child actresses that played the two little girls that would be periodically forgotten as if they never existed, since they were nothing more than a detail to the drama and subsequently to the characters.

If I was to point out performances that really stood out to me, it would be the central antagonists. The SFL, with her complex personality.... disorder and mental illness, the actor that played the evil father, and the other guy... who ends up in hospital... for me, personally, as much as I loved to hate them as characters, the amount of thought and work that went into breathing life into those characters was the most impressive for me. I want to see all of them again in something else. They are superb actors.

The plot point about tango was so stupid to me. I mean, tango isn't sophisticated in any way. It was invented so that the opposite sex could have physical contact with one another. Tango music is just European classical music with a South American folk twist to it. The way they talked about it like it's this spiritual dance, instead of what it actually is, which is an intimate dance that developed into a dance to envoke sensuality. Well, that's so much like the ML and FL's relationship, isn't it?!! They both lived in an imaginary place in their heads, where they romanticized their relationship to more than what it was, which was a sexual affair. Claiming they are "Twin Flames", after he recently asked her to just forget about the lawsuit? LOL. Nope! If two people in this drama are actual twin flames, it's the FL and SML. The SML actually loves her as a real-life human being, not as an imaginary sexualized figure of his imagination. The ML has no idea what love is though, having never been loved before, except by his daughter, so it does make sense that he wouldn't be able to recognize it.

I guess the writers wanted to evoke the biblical Eve, who was Adam's second wife. The first wife, Lilith, is often depicted in classic novels such as "Jane Eyre" as the mad-woman in the attic. From the drama title alone, I know that our SFL was headed for "the attic", via madness. The scene with her putting on her war-paint mask of make-up was a stroke of genius, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was done spontaneously the first time, as it looked so organic and instinctive.

I know I keep mentioning the SFL as if the FL wasn't fantastic as well, I don't mean to imply that, it's just that the SFL role is so much juicier and more interesting from a character point-of-view. The ML was excellent in his role, though, he was a character severely stunted by lack of love, which I mentioned before. The ML sacrificed himself for nothing, as it turns out, since I mean, everything would have turned out pretty much the same had he lived (though, I wouldn't have wanted him to just survive the crash, that would have been too far-fetched).

All in all, well done to the cast and crew. SFL, I loved watching a mature actress steal the show! I'll be looking for your work from now on. Also, I liked her outfits even more than the FL's, and some of them (ep 15 & 16), I want to wear myself, which doesn't happen often.... actually, that's never happened before.





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