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LilacsInTheWind

LilacsInTheWind

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes korean drama review
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The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
2 people found this review helpful
by LilacsInTheWind
Nov 24, 2018
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 9.0
This review may contain spoilers
heartbreaking, stunning, beautiful, very very sad. but somehow peaceful, at the end too.
I am a sucker for happy endings at any circumstances no matter how impossible it may seem, so even though I was slightly...quite a bit disappointed (hoping against hope is my forte?!),
but it was still ok..they could not be-not be together, so its ok..since they were Together. And it was Beautiful!

The acting was Amazing, stunning, knock you off your feet art, and the music scores suiting and incredibly soothing.

I knew the story ..it always was a little strange, and thereby all the more nakedly true to Humanness, to the very basics of it.

The Japanese one with Kimura Takuya (kakkoi and unquestionable talent and performances always!)
& this with Seo in Guk ( stunningly translucent his performance was, looking so effortless ..outstanding ) & Jung so Min ( she is exponentially evolving as an actress with each drama; absolutely remarkable and breathtaking acting by both, ..and they had truly a very captivating and imposing chemistry with each other here),
looking at the ending, were both beautiful on their own;

And in my humble opinion, tried to tell the story of something much more than what was on the surface, hid a special undeniable depth and beauty, beneath the layers, that of human emotions, tendencies, factors going into making who we are, our limits, hope, self preservation, internal struggles with selves, temptations and internal urges to deal with temptation fighting tooth for tooth even if wrong- this continuous struggle, .. evolution of a heart gone numb facing all the utter injustices, nonsensical atrocities of human behavior from day to day back to being alive and human, the very natural pull of Life and perhaps its inherent goodness?! And the pull of human-ness and healing, basic instinct of our hearts recognizing and trying to protect our loved ones-even if needed from our own deteriorating faults, trials to self betterment, failures,

HOPE-like the dimming light at the end of a tunnel-beckoning us back to life, with what is Pure.
what pushes us to the edge, what keeps us sane, but amongst the most Love. Just Simple (Untouched from all the mess beneath it all) LOVE

In the context of it all the title fits, ..you never do realize life's simple gifts and the astonishing beauty of the Hundred Million Stars in the night sky until you are ready to see it all with naked honesty in its simple truth, and when finally you do you may just feel ..that they might fall and envelop you, and ..perhaps just save you, if they possibly could.
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