Dia de Primavera (2005)

Amores Entrelaçados e Segredos Dolorosos

Transmitido pela SBS, Spring Day é um dorama que explora as complexas relações entre dois irmãos e a mulher que ambos amam. Min-jung é uma jovem mulher que se apaixona por Go Eun-sup, um médico talentoso. No entanto, o irmão de Eun-sup, Go Eun-ho, também se sente atraído por Min-jung, criando um triângulo amoroso emocionalmente carregado. A trama é marcada por segredos familiares, lealdades divididas e decisões difíceis.

O dorama se destaca pela maneira como aborda os dilemas morais e as dificuldades de conciliar os sentimentos de amor com as responsabilidades familiares. As atuações são comoventes, e a direção captura bem a tensão emocional entre os personagens. Embora a história tenha um ritmo mais lento, isso permite que os dilemas internos dos protagonistas sejam explorados com profundidade.

Ideal para quem gosta de dramas familiares intensos e relacionamentos complexos, Spring Day é uma história sobre escolhas difíceis, sacrifício e os laços indissolúveis do amor e da família.

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There are times, I think, when nothing beats a KDrama from the early 2000s

"Spring Day" is a love story told in a triangle. So drama in drama feels right at home here. And "Spring Day" has a lot more to offer in the proven makjang-mix to really heat up the story. If the merry-go-round isn't going straight forward, than simply because it's going backwards.

Three is one too many. Being well aware of the consequences and where the story must lead towards, it is nevertheless the path that paves the series pleasure of cathartic ups and downs. You can get really upset about this and that. The rhythms of the soundtrack whip your emotions through the most varied of situations. The assorted mix of (by now long) proven actors give the protagonists their three dimensional profile. None of those characters is really grippy, smooth or edgeless, though. Whether brotherly relationship, romance or parental relationship, it´s all full of sometimes touching, sometimes pathetic ambivalences – sometimes hurting, sometimes soothing and hurting at the same time. In short, the KDrama presents quite some space for compassion and catharsis.

There are times, I think, when nothing beats a KDrama from the early 2000s. I couldn't have timed my ´Spring Day´ better (in Spring 2023). After a flood of stories about contemporary scheming, autocratic backroom politics, bullying among students and misogyny, "Spring Day" feels like an island in many ways. The world is not safe there, on the contrary. Makjang rocks the turbulence upwards. Nevertheless, there are 'only' personal destinies and family tragedies here that do not have the social impact of some current series topics. We get thrown around in an ambivalent emotional swell between 'soothing' and 'hurting'. In the end the story is told to the end. The ending may or may not please, but it has its ending. (A lot of recent KDrama with current underlying social issues tend to deep down leave a thorn after the end of the story, as the social swamp that fueled the story remains a given reality and lingers on…)



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By the way:
With "Spring Day" in 2005, Go Hyun-jung marks her comeback after a War-of-Roses divorce with a Jaebeol of the Samsung Dynasty. So in 2003 she actually had just finished her own Makjang drama personally. Eventually, she was able to free herself from the obviously tormenting clutches of her husband and his dominant, oppressive family, who (so it is said) permanently devalued her because of her humble origins, simply making use of her beauty for bearing pretty children. Yet the price for liberation was high. Above all, she had to leave her children behind and give up visitation and custody rights. Although she was able to re-establish her life somehow against all (by her husband´s family deliberately implemented) odds , she (so it is said) still is not allowed to see her children to this day.

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