Autumn Shower (2005)

Autumn Shower is more than just a love story. It is a story about love and loyalty; its profound meaning despite its uncertainty; the search for its validity in pain and tragedy and most of all its fleeting quality.

I was drawn to this drama because somehow it is like watching a long movie with a nice going “poetry feel” to it. There are no villains and scheming plots, just passionate characters put into situations wherein they have had to make difficult choices and therefore go through one consequence after another.

It was hard not to empathize with each of the main characters because they were very well molded and also played well by the actors/actresses. I find that their actions and reactions to the circumstances are well justified by their characters. Although some have gone to the extremes, I still think they are within reason as they were moved by overwhelming emotions.

Jeong Ryewon is such a great actress here, the cute scenes were cute and the emotionally pulling scenes were solid. Oh Jiho’s crying parts though not yet his best in this drama weren't as bad as to ruin one's viewing pleasure.. (perhaps his good looks is enough compensation =))

I hope more viewers take time to watch this drama. I’m writing this review after a second re-watch. If you are up to some seriously thought provoking moments on love, this drama is sure worth your time immersing in.

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A thoughtful and emotionally stirring meditation on what it means to love someone. This dug deep comparing and contrasting love as an uncontrollable feeling vs love as a series of deliberate choices and actions. The characters are all good people trying so hard to do the right thing, tying themselves into knots trying to honor their expectations of and obligations to each other in extremely trying circumstances. It really succeeded at making me feel for the characters and I longed for them to be able to come out of the other side of all the angst and pain with some measure of happiness or at least peace. The pacing is slow as molasses, I think it would have been better if we had seen more of the lead couple's courtship before the accident and resulting coma, but it was still a worthwhile watch for how well it wrestled with its central moral dilemma and for how strong Jung Ryeo Won and Kim So Yeon's performances were.

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