Meninos Antes de Flores (2009)

Tragic brain trauma story

This is really a sad series about a girl with untreated brain damage which affects the way she eats and talks (poor thing!). When the series starts, viewers are clued into her condition when she totally disregards the fact that someone who is bleeding from multiple head wounds is about to commit suicide. She shows some semblance of normalcy when she steps in to grab the kid as he jumps. This act gives her a one way ticket into Upskirttown Academy where girls prep themselves for a lacey-panties-and-high-stiletto-heel future of hybrid French-maid and Japanese-child-porn-school-girl courtesans. What an awesome life for young ladies of the 21st century! As incredible as that might sound I just couldn't get over how bad GJD's grasp on reality was as the series progressed. There was a bullying scene to begin with that our protagonist didn't witness so I guess that's not her fault but then more bullying ensues until we get a setup that suggested an upcoming gang rape. Of course, we can't expect our poor brain-compromised protag to fully comprehend the seriousness of the situation enough to avoid the mofo who set her up in the first place. Instead, she confronts him and tells him an irrelevant fact that she was an unkissed virgin. Yes, GJD, that's exactly what I would tell the forker who nearly got me gang-raped (newsflash: no, no it's not). Moving right along, we get the hapless heroine getting herself into a sexual assault situation where the aforementioned mofo tries to force a kiss on her. No red flags there for GJD apparently as she continues on with life as usual, her neurological condition shielding her from the trauma; lucky girl. Blah blah blah, then some insta-romance BS plot where the rich mofo falls for her without logic or reason at all and tries to woo her, yadda yadda yadda, some intervening storyline with a Fabio wannabe kid who has the hots for a model who likes to toy with his feelings, oh boo hoo hoo for him, then the point at which I decided I wasn't the target audience for this... GDJ gets roofied and gets photographed in a compromising position... and it flies over her cranium chamber. Rather than reacting to the fact she had been potentially raped she was more focused on convincing the mofo, whom she supposedly doesn't have feelings for, that she didn't have a relationship with the roofie guy. At this point, it just became really, really tragic to watch.

Firstly, there's a difference between a relationship and rape; a whole consentful of difference which the directors and writers just overlooked as conveniently as the protagonist GDJ did. As a pre-MeToo production this series didn't age well, but I don't believe it needs a MeToo movement to have corrected this story, it just needs a functional brain to realise what's wrong and right, but BOF never seemed to have meant to be anything other than a blatantly misogynistic production anyway with the gratuitous upskirting angles and forked up "school" uniforms for the girls.

Secondly, there's nothing to recommend this series as none of the chars are remotely good looking. I checked it out for Kim Bum at first but his character here was such a slut that it made him ugly to watch. The only char that was likeable was Bom Chun Sik coz he was interesting with his psychic guesses however, he's a minor char.

I mean if you're a neuroscience student then by all means check this series out to study how sick the production team's brains are to have created this crap and how accurate GDJ's portrayal of a brain damaged person is. Aside from that, it could be a good series for people who need eye exercises as you end up rolling your eyes and scrunching them tight a lot wondering WTF did u just witness. Oh, and if you're a zombie then go for it, you'll totally enjoy the irony of the show. Apart from that, I wouldn't recommend it to viewers who do not fit into any of the above categories as it might cause brain damage from your neurons spontaneously combusting from trying to make sense of the sheer ludicrousness of the protagonist's behaviour and decision making processes. This show feels less like a serious series attempt and more like an erotic soft porn fantasy of a bunch of middle-aged, male Korean film execs.

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Interesting beginning, horrible evolution

As I found this drama on quite a lot of "must watch K-Dramas" - lists and it being extremely popular, I went in to except a, maybe a bit cliché-heavy but light and enjoyable watch. And while it is in the beginning very interesting and simply cool to see a "simple" girl stand up to the school bullies, this takes the absolutely wrong turn when the main male lead is the leader of the group of bullies, who literally had a guy almost committing suicide due to them, if Gandi didn't stand up for him. ML's ways of making Gandi fall in love of him are extremely worrying as well and then, instead of first explaining why he acts that way or at least letting Gandi deal with it, the show suddenly portrays him as hero and romantic, only meaning well.

Furthermore, it gets quite boring and dragged out, and horrible story + bad pacing + annoying music just doesn't make for an enjoyable watch.

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Bu diziyi 2014 veya 16da izlemişimdir, o yüzden hatırladığım kadarıyla yazacağım.
İlk 3-4 bölüm ilgi çekici baya. Kızın oyunculuğu aşırı yapmacık, gıcık ve bazı olaylar saçma evet, ama insanın ilgisini çekiyo, izlemek istiyorsun. Turuncu saçlı çocuk çoook tatlı keman çalan.
Ama ondan sonra olaylar öyle saçma bi hal alıyo ki. Bu dörtlüyle Candi tatile çıkıyolar, deniz tatiline, kış tatiline. Asansörde kapalı kalıyolar, yurt dışına çıkıyolar falan. Sürekli alakasız alakasız olaylar. Sanki bi ergen yazmış gibi tüm diziyi. Ve HİÇBİRİ gerçekçi değil yani olanlar, tepkiler...vb. İzlenemez bi hal alıyor, katlanılamaz.

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Cringy AF. Don’t waste your time. ??‍

After everyone’s recommendations saying that this drama is one of the best drama... I was pleasantly surprised with how much shyt they were chatting.

No offense but

This drama is so cringy for my liking. I usually can put up with cringe dramas but the storyline is cliche and so damn boring. And The characters are annoying.

I honestly tried my best to stick through with this drama to the end but I ended up getting more and more dissatisfied. Personally I love watching dramas that are not predictable and this drama was the total opposite.

1/10 the 1 for the actors/actresses hard work.

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This had been one of the first K dramas that I started watching. I've seen the Japanese and the Chinese version of the same story and had loved both, so I was familiar with the natural storyline. But I was hoping that they would have added their own little twist to the story. It was a little disappointing to see that they hadn't really made the effort. Which moved them from being fabulous to just being Meh in my books.
The actors and actresses were great and I felt that they made a great decision on the casting but I felt that the story was just missing something throughout the series. I would watch it again but mostly to fill time though.  

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This is a beloved kdrama - truly. I did enjoy it and I would recommend it to all my kdrama-loving followers. HOWEVER, I was conflicted about the drama because of...the ending. I don't like spoilers, so I won't say anything specific about the ending. What I will say is that I feel that they could have had less episodes for this story (25 eps!). I think that at some points, the duration really hurt the drama because it gave the writers too much space to go in circles in the story. With that said, I don't regret watching this drama, it just isn't one of my favorites.

Plus - Lee Min Ho and Kim Hyun Joong. Enough said.

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Yawn....

Honestly at first it started out alright, it wasn’t perfect but it was watchable...throughout the 3 episodes...It’s basically about a girl whos basically wack and goes into a rich school after she saves a bullied guy from killing himself off a school roof. She then meets the “drop dead gorgeous” bad guys who are known as “F4” in the school and they are pretty much petty arseholes for bullying students who are lesser than them. I mean doesn’t that really put you off??? Like how can the female lead get involved with a bloke who just is a utter bullocks as well as a bully man?!?! Yeah honestly, I don’t know either and that’s regardless if it’s fiction lol..

I don’t know if this aged well, full of stupid cliches, overhyped or just the fact I was a dummy for watching this in the first place but it just didn’t click with me man. It was just so boring and just an utter disappointment cause it is popular. I’m afraid the “Boys Over Flowers” fan club will have to leave me out on this one x)

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