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Man in Love taiwanese drama review
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Man in Love
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by Aria
Aug 12, 2024
Completed
Overall 10
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 10.0
This review may contain spoilers

Fucking painful

While I'm writing this review I'm crying and listening to the ending song in the background.

The story is about a good-hearted debt collector who falls in love with a girl who has to take care of the debt of her father who is sick. The story seems simple but it is not at all.

At the beginning you will find scenes that are beautiful and fun but then everything goes downhill and your emotions will be a carousel. Questioning many things, not only about the complexity of Zhang's character and her life, but about your own life and your past.

When Zhang meets Wu, he wants to change his life to be better for her but her past haunts him, no matter how much effort he makes. At some point your past and what you did will catch up with you in the present.

Zhang always considered himself a useless man and part of the reason he had that life was his father's fault. The inferiority complex that he has is also thanks to his brother, who blames him for the fact that his family is like this because of him. Although his brother cries after him and repents, belatedly.

On the other hand, Wu, despite his fights and problems, does not blame him. She wants to be with him. Maybe he is two sides of a coin, a person who blames his brother without trying to understand why his brother went that route, and a woman who does not blame him because he put himself in her shoes.

This movie in particular brought back a lot of memories for me. When my grandmother died and actually at her funeral there were few people. Her memory loss in the last moments. And my father's crystalline green eyes during her funeral. I think that is something that you will always carry in your heart and the only thing left to do is survive with that pain that never goes away.

On the other hand, it reminds me of my ex-boyfriend's family. Although I don't really have anything good to say about my ex-boyfriend, I remember that his father was in a lot of debt, I don't know (to this day) why he opened up so much about it to me, instead of telling his wife. And he asked me if he knew a lender. Clearly I'm knew lenders, not because i'm was involved in strange things, but because my father's ex-boss was involved in those things. When he asked me, I lied and told him that I didn't know any of them and that it wasn't a good idea for him to get involved in those things because he could get into worse trouble.

Because clearly the theme of loan sharks is well captured in the film. It's what happens in real life.

After I separated from my ex-boyfriend I found out that his father had gotten involved with several lenders and now they were in big trouble. Although I really didn't wish my ex-boyfriend anything good, I didn't think it would end that way and I'm not happy about it either.

I've already moved on and I'm about to get married soon but somehow I feel guilty for not being more persuasive so that this doesn't happen to him. Clearly I was the only one who saw his father as desperate and deeply depressed. But at the end of the day, everyone makes their own decisions and the consequences of them.

Just like Zhang, though he tried to change and actually did. The past will always catch up with you and make you pay for what you did in the past. It hurts but it is the sad reality.

I think what I learned from this movie is to be with the person you love, I'm not just talking romantically, but also about family. And do not judge lightly, because we do not know the person's past that led him to take such paths. Even when his father speaks badly of his brother, Zhang reprimands him and tells him not to be so hard on him and to be more grateful. He definitely understood his brother and didn't hate him at all.

The acting was so good, I felt like each character's pain felt like my own pain.

Obviously this doesn't have a happy ending, I wish it had but with that premise it was strange that it did. It's very painful, I think i'm would see it once a year.

It is not an easy film to digest and you end up crying buckets. But I think you should see it at least once in your life. It leaves great lessons and makes you think a lot.
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