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Absolutely beautiful drama about pursuit of dreams, healing and love.
I have just finished this cdrama in the last 72 hours and by far this is the best cdrama I have seen. Watch this right now.
Very different from any other dramas, with the plot set around Peking Opera and Chinoiserie stage play with a dash of cosplay. It was an unexpected and I was pleasantly surprised. The story is about pursuing your dreams, growing up and healing. A promising opera actress expelled from her troupe and now making her way back to perform on stage. A passionate stage play producer struggling to make his and his friends dreams come true.
Amazing first meeting and the first few episodes are just captivating. It was great balance of romance and melodrama. I do not find it slow, I think the pacing is fine and not draggy. It gave ample screentime and development around Jiubai, the family relationships and problems. Good thing,no silly unnecessary misunderstandings!
Apart from him being absolutely beautiful, Yao Chi’s performance and acting here is excellent. I cannot imagine anybody else playing the role of Bai Filei. He is truly what made this show awesome. I am now an official Yao Chi fan!
The FL is okay. I think she complimented the ML’s acting. I do prefer Jinna Fu though. She is fantastic here and I do hope to see her as an FL in other dramas.
For those who are worried, the drama officially ended at 32:42 with an absolutely happy ending!
The last 5 minutes sequence is in a parallel universe. It shows an old Yu Fei, who is a very succesful peking actress. We can see that she remained single in pursuit of the opera. She is going for a check up at the hospital, and while on the road she saw a glimpse of a young man down on his knee proposing to a young women. It seems to be a deja vu, as the couple looks like the young Yu Fei and Bai Filei. She arrived at the hospital and was greeted by her who looks like Shuji. When entering the hospital she saw an old man painting by the bench. Then it shows someone signing the painting as Bai Filei. In the clinic, she will undergo a sleep study. She then tells Doctor Shuji about her repeated dreama of a lion in the bamboo forest.
So why did they show a parallel universe at the end? Well I can only speculate that one of main plot points of this drama is about South Song aka Dreams of the South. The plat showed us 4 different dreamscapes or parallel universes. And this show, Out of the Dream is the play, so my guess is, that parallel universe is just a bonus scene for us audience.
Very different from any other dramas, with the plot set around Peking Opera and Chinoiserie stage play with a dash of cosplay. It was an unexpected and I was pleasantly surprised. The story is about pursuing your dreams, growing up and healing. A promising opera actress expelled from her troupe and now making her way back to perform on stage. A passionate stage play producer struggling to make his and his friends dreams come true.
Amazing first meeting and the first few episodes are just captivating. It was great balance of romance and melodrama. I do not find it slow, I think the pacing is fine and not draggy. It gave ample screentime and development around Jiubai, the family relationships and problems. Good thing,no silly unnecessary misunderstandings!
Apart from him being absolutely beautiful, Yao Chi’s performance and acting here is excellent. I cannot imagine anybody else playing the role of Bai Filei. He is truly what made this show awesome. I am now an official Yao Chi fan!
The FL is okay. I think she complimented the ML’s acting. I do prefer Jinna Fu though. She is fantastic here and I do hope to see her as an FL in other dramas.
For those who are worried, the drama officially ended at 32:42 with an absolutely happy ending!
The last 5 minutes sequence is in a parallel universe. It shows an old Yu Fei, who is a very succesful peking actress. We can see that she remained single in pursuit of the opera. She is going for a check up at the hospital, and while on the road she saw a glimpse of a young man down on his knee proposing to a young women. It seems to be a deja vu, as the couple looks like the young Yu Fei and Bai Filei. She arrived at the hospital and was greeted by her who looks like Shuji. When entering the hospital she saw an old man painting by the bench. Then it shows someone signing the painting as Bai Filei. In the clinic, she will undergo a sleep study. She then tells Doctor Shuji about her repeated dreama of a lion in the bamboo forest.
So why did they show a parallel universe at the end? Well I can only speculate that one of main plot points of this drama is about South Song aka Dreams of the South. The plat showed us 4 different dreamscapes or parallel universes. And this show, Out of the Dream is the play, so my guess is, that parallel universe is just a bonus scene for us audience.
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