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Strong plot. Archaic artistic taste. Problem with ML's acting skill.
(1) Story [+]
I'm very impressed with the plot. The plot is superb and very well presented. They set the knots all the way from the beginning to end which makes the viewers surprised all the way through. All the unexpected plots are conveyed at the right time. Their rhythm to reveal and resolve each knot is very well done.
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(2) Character Design [~]
Great design for the FL and ML's characters. Most of the characters in the drama, even the supporting roles, are properly designed. The only problem I have is the design for the 2nd ML. I think it's about the acting skill of the actor who plays this role, too. The drive of the 2nd ML to love the 2nd FL is not convincing at all. With a shallow design that only aims to force the character into feeling love without a proper background to solidify the conviction combining with the not-up-to-the-standard acting skill of the actor, it makes this character to have a pretty vague existence.
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(3) Acting [~]
The best acting skill in the whole drama is the FL. I would say she's the one who carries the whole drama project to not sink. In the drama, she plays as an actress who performs very well. This kind of role is frightening for the one who takes it for sure as the viewers will have a question in their mind all the time while watching that whether the actor/actress really portrays the role up to the level that the role claims to be. There's some scene that the FL has to perform a difficult scene and I wonder myself in which way that she would play it out. I feel that the scene is truly a difficult one, adding up that the story has to emphasize to the real viewers that the scene is extremely difficult before letting the FL rolls things out. I feel for the FL here that this is surely super challenging for her. What if she didn't nail it... the conviction in her character would be dropped a lot. But the FL made it properly. I cried a bit there though fully knowing it would come out something that way. Gotta praise her.
The ML, on contrary, has a very low acting skill to take a leading role. He overreacts at times, underreacts other times. His acting is unnatural and unbalanced to the FL. The way he tries to be the ML apparently makes him look just like make-believe. He tries to be calmly cool in the ML style, but it's unnatural and makes him look underperformed, emotion-dropped, unbalanced. His energy incompatibility makes him be like an air pocket in his scene.
The role of 2nd ML isn't up to par either, but I don't think we can solely blame the acting skill here as I said on the above topic that the character design of this role is originally not strong/good enough.
For the supporting roles, I'm quite satisfied with almost all of them - the ML's friend, female director, FL's company CEO, FL's gay manager and acting teacher. They did a great job.
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(4) Artistic Taste - Clothing & Music [-]
Damn... this is a story of a top-class actress who grows up abroad, but her fashion design is terribly, terribly horrible. Her costume is 很土 - very outdated and unfashionable. Her clothing materials are of low quality. I don't know it's this bad because this drama is a low-budget project or the costume head isn't up to his/her job description.
The music is very archaic, outdated, old-fashioned. No taste in music either.
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I'm very impressed with the plot. The plot is superb and very well presented. They set the knots all the way from the beginning to end which makes the viewers surprised all the way through. All the unexpected plots are conveyed at the right time. Their rhythm to reveal and resolve each knot is very well done.
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(2) Character Design [~]
Great design for the FL and ML's characters. Most of the characters in the drama, even the supporting roles, are properly designed. The only problem I have is the design for the 2nd ML. I think it's about the acting skill of the actor who plays this role, too. The drive of the 2nd ML to love the 2nd FL is not convincing at all. With a shallow design that only aims to force the character into feeling love without a proper background to solidify the conviction combining with the not-up-to-the-standard acting skill of the actor, it makes this character to have a pretty vague existence.
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(3) Acting [~]
The best acting skill in the whole drama is the FL. I would say she's the one who carries the whole drama project to not sink. In the drama, she plays as an actress who performs very well. This kind of role is frightening for the one who takes it for sure as the viewers will have a question in their mind all the time while watching that whether the actor/actress really portrays the role up to the level that the role claims to be. There's some scene that the FL has to perform a difficult scene and I wonder myself in which way that she would play it out. I feel that the scene is truly a difficult one, adding up that the story has to emphasize to the real viewers that the scene is extremely difficult before letting the FL rolls things out. I feel for the FL here that this is surely super challenging for her. What if she didn't nail it... the conviction in her character would be dropped a lot. But the FL made it properly. I cried a bit there though fully knowing it would come out something that way. Gotta praise her.
The ML, on contrary, has a very low acting skill to take a leading role. He overreacts at times, underreacts other times. His acting is unnatural and unbalanced to the FL. The way he tries to be the ML apparently makes him look just like make-believe. He tries to be calmly cool in the ML style, but it's unnatural and makes him look underperformed, emotion-dropped, unbalanced. His energy incompatibility makes him be like an air pocket in his scene.
The role of 2nd ML isn't up to par either, but I don't think we can solely blame the acting skill here as I said on the above topic that the character design of this role is originally not strong/good enough.
For the supporting roles, I'm quite satisfied with almost all of them - the ML's friend, female director, FL's company CEO, FL's gay manager and acting teacher. They did a great job.
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(4) Artistic Taste - Clothing & Music [-]
Damn... this is a story of a top-class actress who grows up abroad, but her fashion design is terribly, terribly horrible. Her costume is 很土 - very outdated and unfashionable. Her clothing materials are of low quality. I don't know it's this bad because this drama is a low-budget project or the costume head isn't up to his/her job description.
The music is very archaic, outdated, old-fashioned. No taste in music either.
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