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When credits from the last episode of the drama "Kill Me, Heal Me" began,
I wasn't crying anymore.
My life was leaking through my eyes.
I know that a story strucked me when 1) I ignored the flaws of the plot and 2) if the
last episode is over, the credits are over, it's been about fifteen minutes
and I'm still crying.
If I called someone in tears because of that TV series or if I woke up someone in my house
to talk about it, still crying...
It's because the mess was serious.
When we find a story like that, we want to tell the whole world about it.
And that's why we need to talk about "Kill me, Heal me".
The creator of "Kill Me, Heal Me" is the screenwriter Jin Soo-wan.
She's also the writer of the latest "Chicago Typewriter", which I'm crazy to watch!
Well, "Kill Me, Heal Me" tells the story of Cha Do Hyun who is an heir to a very wealthy family
who developed Dissociative Identity Disorder because of something horrible
that happened to him as a child.
And because of this disorder, he has several personalities, or alter egos.
And guys.
One is better than the other.
This drama was very, very good.
Although it had problems during the production.
They had problems to close cast, two actors and an actress who were invited
to play the roles of the protagonists refused it and then the whole thing
delayed, anyway.
And the actor Ji Sung, who plays the lead role in "Kill Me, Heal Me," was the
third actor to be invited to the role.
And after seeing the 20 episodes of "Kill Me, Heal Me," what do I have to say about it?
Thank God for the other refusals.
Let's talk about this actor here, Ji Sung.
I could stay here for hours talking about his resume, the awards he won, and it's not
because he's my favorite actor, of course not, you know.
Guys, I'm a journalist, I'm impartial, I'm not like that.
But I promise I'll try to stick to what matters.
Watching Ji Sung in this role is to see an actor reach a level of performance, so...
Only with "Kill me, Heal me" I know he was nominated in Korea to nine awards, he won
four of these awards.
He plays seven different characters!
And he is perfect.
Cha Do Hyun is a character who is very polite and who, in order to hide this disorder
he has from other people, he eventually became someone with
a very restrained behavior.
And the actor Ji Sung insinuates this anger and this intensity of feelings that this
protagonist keeps under this indoctrination and this kindness with economic gestures,
micro expressions, sometimes it's just a look and, man...
It's the most beautiful thing to watch it.
The most beautiful thing.
The character has not said anything yet and you're already there, crying desperately because
of his pain.
*Imitate crying* Why did he suffer so much in his childhood?
And a scene that shows Ji Sung's good performance is in episode 3, I loved this
scene, I watched this scene more than once.
I was like watching and rewinding, watching and rewinding,, watching and rewinding...
It's a scene where Cha Do Hyun is talking to the heroine and she just found out
he has a disorder.
She had already seen his alter ego.
And it's the first time she's talking to Cha Do Hyun's real personality.
And she asks, "Who are you?
What's your name?".
And he answers: "With this gaze and this expression, I am Cha Do Hyun."
And there is so much intensity.
Just like a punch. Like POW and you get all HUUUUGH!
And it's a scene that echoes throughout the whole storie because there are other moments,
beautiful moments, in which, amid the chaos that is to live with multiple personalities,
Cha Do Hyun needs to reaffirm who he is. It's awesome.
Even in the kissing scene between the couple of heroes, it's a beautiful scene,
it's one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever seen in Korean dramas.
Not by the kiss itself, but by the conversation that precedes it, it's a conversation full of empathy,
also by the moment between them, it's really good, really beautiful.
*Pretend to cry*
It's a long scene, so I won't show it here because this is already
huge, it's going to become a documentary.
What is that?
Globo Repórter? (Weekly Brazilian TV show that has an hour long)
So Ji Sung if you're watching this video...
*Pause* You're not understand a word because you don't speak Portuguese. *Laughter* I'm laughing because I'm nervous.
Overall, Korean dramas are made with little time and low budget.
Just for your understanding, they were still closing the cast two months before
the deadline for them to start filming.
And the result you see in some Korean productions: small technical problems,
lighting that could be better, the edit sometimes
is a little weird...
Of course, if you have more money, if you have more time to do a job,
things will work out better, it'll come out nicer.
But you know what?
"Kill me, Heal me" is so good that you don't notice these things.
You don't realize these technical problems, even though they are there.
The story is very good, the characters are very true.
What good is a lot of money and special effects if the story doesn't
pull you in? Right?
"Kill me, Heal me" has an atmosphere of fairy tales, but here the magic comes from hallucinations
and psychiatric problems.
And it is in this context that the story is sensational.
I don't want to tell you much to avoid spoilers, cuz we hate spoilers, but I'll say
that it's a great story, not only because of the sensitivity with which it talks about the suffering of these protagonists,
but also because it's not afraid of answering some questions.
For example, "What is the worst thing that could happen if this alter ego were to go out freely?"
And guys, I'm so grateful for several scenes in this drama.
Like this one, for example.
These alter egos make you laugh a lot during the drama, but in the end they gain
a little depth and it's perfect.
And by the end, the story does not lose course and that is precisely why you will need
tissues, a lot of tissues.
We also see in this story that there is no magic when you need to heal
from a pain.
It's so nice.
It's an heir story because this main character is the heir of a wealthy family.
And heir's stories are a common thing in Korean dramas.
But the screenwriter Jin Soo-wan left this corporate plot in the background because she chose
to tell the most interesting story here, which is the story of the suffering of these characters.
And she does that with style, bringing the plot in the palm of her hand all the time, very attentive
to the details, aware of what she's doing.
*Claps* I respect her.
"Kill me, Heal me" is dysfunctional, is sad, is beautiful, is strange, as life is,
as people actually are.
I'm going to miss these characters so much, I laughed a lot with them, and I cried a lot too,
I was in tears while Iwas watching.
And they brought such beautiful, important and sensitive questions about human
suffering.
For example. We are never broken inside to the point where we can not
receive help.
Yeah.
It's a nice drama.
I highly recommend "Kill me, Heal me".
That's all.
*Kissing noise* Kisses and bye.