Thursday, March 02, 2006

Sorry, I love you



Sorry, I love you is a story about hope, love, anger, revenge and forgiveness. Known as "Misa," it was a hit drama in 2004, starring Lim So Jeong and So Ji Sub. This drama is quite different from the usual boy meets girl and falls in love stories. Cha Mu-hyeok abandoned by his mother at birth, is adopted by a family in Austrailia. (Historically, it seems that many Korean single mothers had put up their child for adoption during this time, mainly for a chance to start over since society had looked down on single mothers). Mu-hyeok believes that his mother had to leave him because of hardship, so he wants to some how make it big and find her one day to take care of her. Through his quest to find his mother, he meets Song Eun-Chae, who works for a lady that he believes is his mother. After discovering his mother, Mu-hyeok only has more questions unanswered, through all of it though, there was Eun-Chae...
One of the major drawbacks of the series though, had to be the poor editing. Some scenes didnot transition very well. However, both lead actors Lim So Jeong and So Ji Sub gave a wonderful performance in this drama. I was really suprised at how well the story was written. The writer's choice of bringing up this sensitive subject (adoption) as the premises of the story takes the viewer right into the lives of the unfortunate and abandoned children. In the end, the viewer will hear echos of Park Hyo Shin's "Snow Flower" song...
B+