QAS
Los Angeles, CA
This review may contain spoilers
Welcome to Dysfunctional Family aka Centimeter of Love.
Scenes with ML Xu Qing Feng and FL Guan Yu Ping together were enjoyable. Their love story was charming, but their interactions with family members were aggravating. Several satellite characters were annoying, clingy, irritating, selfish, self-centered, manipulative, domineering, devious, conniving.
The gap between parent and child is apparent in the Xu and Guan household, as the matriarch Xu Xiu Lan and patriarch Guan rule the respective roosts. They have obsessive love for their sons, Xu Qing Feng and Guan Zhen Lei respectively, controlling and manipulating every free moment of their lives. Mrs Xu and Mr Guan are the autocratic dictators of their households.
Madam Xu gets up every morning, cooks breakfast, and takes it to her son’s home or office. She is possessive, obsessive, suffocating, stifling. She cooks, cleans, makes his bed, shops for his groceries and clothing. She picks up women for him to marry, and gives these leeches the key to his apartment. That boy is too timid and passive around her. She walks all over him.
Mr Guan coddles his thirty years’ old son who cries like a baby, and always runs to his father for comfort. This is the most pathetic part of the drama. Mr Guan, seventy years’ old with a heart condition, treats his son like he is a baby, and shelters him. Mr Guan shows no love or appreciation for his second daughter, a successful professional. She is the bank, financing the Guan family members. He demands that Guan Yu Ping give her money to the lazy good-for-nothing brother, and denigrates her frequently. Zhen Lei, in turn, denigrates his older sister throughout the drama. There were times I wanted to shake Guan Yu Ping, and tell her to get the hell out of the Guan family, change her name, and leave no forwarding address.
Madam Xu, Mr Guan, Zhen Lei, Lin Jie, Female Doctor dominate the plot with their obsessive, possessive, aggressive, maniacal, lunatic, clingy behavior. While these five actors displayed a wide acting range, and deserve the Maniacal Lunatic Award, they shifted focus from the lovers’ story.
Tong Da Wei is a likeable actor, but his permanent smirk and lack of emotion, made him look like a puppet actor and puppet character. Tong Li Ya is a charismatic actress, and her portrayal of Captain Guan is stellar.
The final episode, which included a very nice wedding with no food service, turned into propaganda film for the country and the fight against COVID-19. The statement adds realism to the plot, but the flag flying and political allegiance were overdone. The production company might have used this crutch, to get the drama past the censorship board.
The version I watched on YT has no opening credits on the episodes, and the singing is suppressed. May God bless the people who did this miracle. The directing, acting, editing, wardrobe, set design, music were very good. This is the first drama that I watched, where I cannot complain about the editing, extraneous flashbacks, excessive loud singing or loud BGM.
The gap between parent and child is apparent in the Xu and Guan household, as the matriarch Xu Xiu Lan and patriarch Guan rule the respective roosts. They have obsessive love for their sons, Xu Qing Feng and Guan Zhen Lei respectively, controlling and manipulating every free moment of their lives. Mrs Xu and Mr Guan are the autocratic dictators of their households.
Madam Xu gets up every morning, cooks breakfast, and takes it to her son’s home or office. She is possessive, obsessive, suffocating, stifling. She cooks, cleans, makes his bed, shops for his groceries and clothing. She picks up women for him to marry, and gives these leeches the key to his apartment. That boy is too timid and passive around her. She walks all over him.
Mr Guan coddles his thirty years’ old son who cries like a baby, and always runs to his father for comfort. This is the most pathetic part of the drama. Mr Guan, seventy years’ old with a heart condition, treats his son like he is a baby, and shelters him. Mr Guan shows no love or appreciation for his second daughter, a successful professional. She is the bank, financing the Guan family members. He demands that Guan Yu Ping give her money to the lazy good-for-nothing brother, and denigrates her frequently. Zhen Lei, in turn, denigrates his older sister throughout the drama. There were times I wanted to shake Guan Yu Ping, and tell her to get the hell out of the Guan family, change her name, and leave no forwarding address.
Madam Xu, Mr Guan, Zhen Lei, Lin Jie, Female Doctor dominate the plot with their obsessive, possessive, aggressive, maniacal, lunatic, clingy behavior. While these five actors displayed a wide acting range, and deserve the Maniacal Lunatic Award, they shifted focus from the lovers’ story.
Tong Da Wei is a likeable actor, but his permanent smirk and lack of emotion, made him look like a puppet actor and puppet character. Tong Li Ya is a charismatic actress, and her portrayal of Captain Guan is stellar.
The final episode, which included a very nice wedding with no food service, turned into propaganda film for the country and the fight against COVID-19. The statement adds realism to the plot, but the flag flying and political allegiance were overdone. The production company might have used this crutch, to get the drama past the censorship board.
The version I watched on YT has no opening credits on the episodes, and the singing is suppressed. May God bless the people who did this miracle. The directing, acting, editing, wardrobe, set design, music were very good. This is the first drama that I watched, where I cannot complain about the editing, extraneous flashbacks, excessive loud singing or loud BGM.
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