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Just one bird does not bring the spring (and another Cinderella tale).
I have recently watched Song of the Moon, an equisite production in all apects, starring Zhang Binbin . Having come accross online recommendation of this romcom with the same actor, I started this one.
The first thing was the opening OST which I liked a lot and two female characters carrying a sophisticated dialogue over lipstics. This is probably planned as a comedy of situation beginning but eventually at the start of the drama there was some suspense/through back scenes, causing an impression that something has been cut from the episode and did not constitute a smooth intro to the story line.
Anyway, I did give them a chance but having completed the show I can conclude that just one bird does not bring the spring. I got convinced in the acting skills of Zhang Binbin, he is obviously serious and deep, portrays layers of emotions and showed a gradual and realistic development of his character.
But just an excellent actor does not make an excellent production.
The storyline - in essence, un underlying Cinderella story. I am new to C-drama, but was impessed how many CEOs and Emperrors in C-dramas on Youtube have their main occupation chasing after women. Just to leave the unbiased viewer at a loss how did Chinese economy and history manage to go so well. In Romance of the Little Forrest, the situation is by far better - the mail protagonist is an outstanding university professor with strong dedication and discipline, very hard working with his studies, scientific and field research, as well as collaborating with other scientists (inclusive international) and lecturing students, This character was quite convincingly portrayed by Zhang Binbin.
If you ask me, the script writers did not necessarily need to make him the first born son of super rich family. It could have been left with the phsychoanalysis ML used to help the FL recover her empotional trauma, as well as the support of her family and friends, which is that really cures and helps, and truely a luxury not everyone has in his life, but it may be that the audience loves Cinderella storylines, again and again.
Not sure of the focus distribution regarding the main FL character. This is, in essence, a very complex and difficult role and should have been either handled differently, or given more screen time to develop it.
The first thing was the opening OST which I liked a lot and two female characters carrying a sophisticated dialogue over lipstics. This is probably planned as a comedy of situation beginning but eventually at the start of the drama there was some suspense/through back scenes, causing an impression that something has been cut from the episode and did not constitute a smooth intro to the story line.
Anyway, I did give them a chance but having completed the show I can conclude that just one bird does not bring the spring. I got convinced in the acting skills of Zhang Binbin, he is obviously serious and deep, portrays layers of emotions and showed a gradual and realistic development of his character.
But just an excellent actor does not make an excellent production.
The storyline - in essence, un underlying Cinderella story. I am new to C-drama, but was impessed how many CEOs and Emperrors in C-dramas on Youtube have their main occupation chasing after women. Just to leave the unbiased viewer at a loss how did Chinese economy and history manage to go so well. In Romance of the Little Forrest, the situation is by far better - the mail protagonist is an outstanding university professor with strong dedication and discipline, very hard working with his studies, scientific and field research, as well as collaborating with other scientists (inclusive international) and lecturing students, This character was quite convincingly portrayed by Zhang Binbin.
If you ask me, the script writers did not necessarily need to make him the first born son of super rich family. It could have been left with the phsychoanalysis ML used to help the FL recover her empotional trauma, as well as the support of her family and friends, which is that really cures and helps, and truely a luxury not everyone has in his life, but it may be that the audience loves Cinderella storylines, again and again.
Not sure of the focus distribution regarding the main FL character. This is, in essence, a very complex and difficult role and should have been either handled differently, or given more screen time to develop it.
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