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Cry Me a River of Stars chinese drama review
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Cry Me a River of Stars
1 people found this review helpful
by panda45
Nov 20, 2021
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 9.0

a sincere love story

The love story is successful in that it made me dream and took me away effectively. The chemistry between the two leads is real and simple. The simplicity of it adds beauty to its real feel. Complicated love story with much difficulties, strains, premeditation, weighing pros and cons ,twists and uncertainty personally make me feel sick because the world is already full of people having relationships sketched in this fashion. Self interests give birth to positive looking relationships -when it is only fake love- as well as they make conflicts arise. That depends on the direction they take, but when it is a matter of conflicting interests the fakeness is outcried and what didn't deserve its name is shamelessly put down.

The love chemistry in this story is felt early on, even without difficulties rising or before seeing difficulties rising. Usually it is very hard to tell without testing, because people hearts change and are weak when it comes to personal interests. However the story had a good vibe to it since the beginning. It was genuine and not hard to set yet profound. The characters have their share of responsibility in it. A relationship is the mirror of the soul of its characters. People driven by self interests may find attraction in each other but their relationship is frail and brittle threatening to end at the slightest upturn of wind, but it is first and foremost a lie, so living it is even worse.

I liked it when A Fan asked herself whether every woman got to be betrayed by what she/ they felt an eternal unbreakable promise. She asked herself that at the peak of the tightening of the knot when hardships befell on her and Tao Junran. When this happened I didn't feel the complication much even if the plan of the two characters actually working together to deceive others instead of what it seemingly looked like -Tao to break his promise to Fan and deceive her- wasn't revealed only after some time of watching. There the strength of their previous feelings was tested.
So I believed the story. Besides, as the love plot fell in the category style I have been dreaming of , watching it got to be a pleasure. So.. I have been dreaming of a simple love story with hilarious scenes between the two protagonists and sincere feelings that remain unchanged and unthreatened by personal interests that swiftly change as life rolls its course.
Of course such "eternal" love shouldn't be a focus in this lowly life as one should aim for much better because the afterlife is what it truly matters. How can it be otherwise when the truly knowledgeable knows that it is on another level of pleasure for those who succeed at it . But it is good to dream and remember by the dream that every possible good thing can happen in my next life, if I stick to the right path. That is how the story in this drama can be a helpful way to keep this belief strong and vivid. Hope when it is not a fake illusion is truly a beautiful but also helpful way to go on.
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