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kdrama: A Love to Kill - Episode 1 (2005)
Nov. 17th, 2010 12:02 amHello Melodrama, so very nice to see you. I've been drowning in cutsy, moderately angsty rom-com, it's about time someone showed up to bring da Noise and da Funk the Real Drama.
A Love to Kill is a 2005 kdrama starring Bi(Rain) and Shin Min Ah (adorably and most recently of My Girlfriend is a Gumiho). In an attempt not to be spoiled, something kdramas are good at doing right there in the series synopsis, I haven't done too much reading up. What I do know is that the very sexy Bi(Rain) plays K-1 fighter Kang Bok Gu, a man out for revenge. Shin Min Ah plays Cha Eun Seok, an actress nursing a broken heart. Her honey, further down the food chain then she is, has gone MIA. He's moved from his house and won't return her calls. Poor Cha Eun Seok is pretty heartbroken about it all and has turned to tipping the bottle back a little too often. Which leads her into troubles of another kind. The wrong time, wrong place kind of troubles that land our mess of a heroine in the midst of a sex scandal and the announcement of her engagement that, I suspect, is meant to resolve it.
Unlike the more recent rom-com's that I've been watching, A Love to Kill is missing that shiny, slick, primary color-ish feel. The filming is full of tricky camera angles, wide street shots, and artistic cut-aways. The color palette is decidedly washed out, dulled and interspersed with gritty black and white shots that I haven't yet figured out the code for. Initially, I thought they were meant to represent memories, but maybe not so much. They seem to kind of show up to enhance what I can only assume is the overall artsy fartsy vibe. That's not to say that I don't really like it or that I'm not impressed because ... yeah. That closing sequence? Pretty much killer.
( Are you a Cha Eun Seok stalker? )
A Love to Kill is a 2005 kdrama starring Bi(Rain) and Shin Min Ah (adorably and most recently of My Girlfriend is a Gumiho). In an attempt not to be spoiled, something kdramas are good at doing right there in the series synopsis, I haven't done too much reading up. What I do know is that the very sexy Bi(Rain) plays K-1 fighter Kang Bok Gu, a man out for revenge. Shin Min Ah plays Cha Eun Seok, an actress nursing a broken heart. Her honey, further down the food chain then she is, has gone MIA. He's moved from his house and won't return her calls. Poor Cha Eun Seok is pretty heartbroken about it all and has turned to tipping the bottle back a little too often. Which leads her into troubles of another kind. The wrong time, wrong place kind of troubles that land our mess of a heroine in the midst of a sex scandal and the announcement of her engagement that, I suspect, is meant to resolve it.
Unlike the more recent rom-com's that I've been watching, A Love to Kill is missing that shiny, slick, primary color-ish feel. The filming is full of tricky camera angles, wide street shots, and artistic cut-aways. The color palette is decidedly washed out, dulled and interspersed with gritty black and white shots that I haven't yet figured out the code for. Initially, I thought they were meant to represent memories, but maybe not so much. They seem to kind of show up to enhance what I can only assume is the overall artsy fartsy vibe. That's not to say that I don't really like it or that I'm not impressed because ... yeah. That closing sequence? Pretty much killer.
( Are you a Cha Eun Seok stalker? )
