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Reflection of You korean drama review
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Reflection of You
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by Aria
Jul 6, 2024
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 7.5
This review may contain spoilers

You can't escape your actions, in the end the past will catch up with you.

Hee Joo apparently lives a happy life (I say, apparently because she has to put up with her mother-in-law and obey her orders) and is a well-known artist.

Everything in her life seems great, she is married to a rich man and doing great as an artwork artist, but her world falls apart when she finds out that her daughter has been beaten by a teacher. At first he can't stop thinking about her, she reminds him of someone from his past, but he can't figure out who it is. But Goo Hae-won knows her perfectly and comes to the school where Lisa studies, to get revenge on Hee Joo for everything she did in the past. A past that conveniently for Hee Joon does not remember.

Hee Joon is an artist of manipulation and victimization. She usually thinks she can get his way, quickly. She doesn't regret what she did and doesn't think about her past selfish actions (like abandoning her husband, Woo Jae and cheating on him). There was really no reason for her to do this. Woo Jae did not mistreat her and was willing to do anything for her (including hiding the fact that she knew she was cheating on him). But Hee Joo flees out of her own selfishness, without measuring any of her actions or how many people she hurt in the process.

She has a smile that might make you believe she's the victim in all of this, but appearances are always deceiving. Her smile is her disguise of her true, dark personality.

Goo Hae-won, on the other hand, is a physically neglected woman compared to Hee Joo but this is something significant. She is a person who at one time had a lot of talent but her dreams were frustrated, there is no light or happiness on her face. She but an insatiable thirst for revenge. The desire for revenge has completely consumed her and that is reflected in her appearance. She couldn't tell if Goo Hae-won's revenge went too far or not. Since after the whole truth is discovered, she is not happy. She has been left alone just like Hee Joo.

Many think that Goo Hae-won should have called the police and Hee Joo should have gone to jail but how long would it have lasted? Two years? It's not enough punishment for what he did.

Goo Hae-won gave him a worse life, a true living hell. Without the love of her husband or her children, she was completely alone, without love and without luxuries. Turning her life into a complete living hell.

In the end we see that Goo Hae-won dreams came true while Hee Joo lives hell.

In the end we can see Hee Joo contemplating the place where she disposed of Woo Jae's body, did she commit suicide? Probably.

It's not like he could take another path, if he came back Goo Hae-won would tell everything. That was the deal and his life had already become hell.

I recommend it? If you like revenge shows, yes, if you don't like this type of drama, it's better to skip it. The chapters are long, it's not a short drama and sometimes it gets boring so you might not like it. But it's just my opinion, you can see for yourself if you like it or not.

The performances were very good and the OST goes very well with the drama.
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