Hyun bin is amazing in this drama... His pain melts your heart and his love blew your head... His expressions are remarkable... He is playing a character teen age to a mature man... In first episodes you will feel he is not doing something extra ordinary due to some lose ends of the story... In the beginning writer tried to tell us about the background of characters and clear the concept of title the snow queen... Hyun bin did his best in later episodes...
Main lead girl is lil off beat but in last two episodes she finally catched her her flight and led us to a nice melodramatic journey... Still I felt she could have done far better as hyun bin gave his all... Second lead is good looking guy with innocent face so him being an ass like other second leads was out of question... You will definitely sympathies him as he was victim...
Scenes are well connected even though some characters were missing like main leads moms were suddenly out of scene and never appeared again... Then hyun bin class fellow who approached him first was missing after everything was opened...so it looked lil untidy...over all cinematography is amazing... Snow, flowers, mountains, and beautiful landscape are worth mentioned...everything feels so warming and thought provoking...
Storyline is quite interesting and heart touching... Sometimes we punish ourselves for something that has nothing to do with us... If any of our closed one gets hurt and we won't able to help them we start regretting it and make our life miserable... And that is the point where we need just one person to hold us and tell us that's not our fault... Even if it is miserable...even if you are living in hell...even if you feel death is better than living still live...force yourself to live even if you lost all your hopes and love... Living is better than dying... Live like a human not like an insect... Everyone is responsible for their act nobody's act is your fault... Don't put yourself in misery as people who love you who are your family your friends will feel more miserable than you... Hats off to the massage and storyline portrayed by actors...
This drama is only about hyun bin and just cherish your heart seeing him... Yes there is no happy ending but there is hope to live and that's enough for us... One doesn't need happy need
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A marvelous story of indissoluble love
A poignant drama, permeated with a deeply felt melancholy that accompanies us from beginning to end, The Snow Queen continues to be, in my opinion, a marvelous story of indissoluble love, capable of transcending any barrier, pushing (in all senses) towards extreme borders (not only figuratively speaking) thanks to the sincere romanticism of a practically perfect script and an excellent direction (the author is the same director of 'Winter Sonata', to be clear)As always, love, chance and destiny are preponderant elements that drive the story forward, but compared to similar cases, one does not turn one's nose up at any inconsistency, illogic or magnanimous demands for complete suspension of disbelief, since everything manages to be coordinated in a balanced and 'realistic' structure that also guarantees a sentimental identification with the beautiful characters of the drama...
The composite screenplay manages to overcome a linear storyline with a concentric structure, full of randomness and coincidences, alternating points of view, even narrative variations on the same theme, as well as subplots and geometrical plotlines that enrich the construction of the story, where even a few symbols or simple objects such as a pager, a music tape and a couple of photographs have the strength to release sincere emotion without trespassing on the pathetic.
It is achieved without falling into the baroque or exaggerated mannerism (typical of many contemporary dramas) that sometimes makes us raise an eyebrow or roll our eyes, thanks to skillful and never ordinary dialogue of obvious literary derivation, capable of arousing equal passion for two apparently antithetical subjects such as mathematics and boxing, and this is also possible thanks to a perfect cast in an absolute state of grace.
Hyun Bin renders his character's torment and remorse very well, with a truly calibrated, touching and involving performance, a prisoner of his own secret and bearer of an inner suffering bordering on self-destruction, almost Catholic in nature, even though the religious references (much more marked in other dramas of the same period) remain confined to a desperate prayer/invocation towards the end of the drama. Yu-ri -very gorgeous! -is absolutely perfect, capable of operating a sort of progressive transformation and dramatic growth that is functional to the narrative development of the story; the bumptious and spoilt little girl of the beginning of the story, ends up evolving and becoming a mature (young) woman, consciously resigned, in spite of herself, to her own fate.
The remaining cast is perfectly integrated in their roles without any pedantic backstory that in this case would frankly be considered pleonastic, with the exception of the excellent portrayal of Tae Woong's mother, who is absolutely decisive in further accentuating the protagonist's torments, and Bo Ra's father, capable of confirming once again that founding principle of dramas whereby the faults of parents end up falling on their children (in fact, he is responsible for the tragic fate of his eldest son)
Much has been written, and rightly so, about the extraordinary venues of the story, and the skillful use of the locations really deserves a separate mention, starting with the extraordinary landscapes in the opening, later reproposed in the last episode, to continue with the gymnasium, a sort of perfect microcosm populated by a group of marginalized people with a warm heart, which restores to us all the sense of sadness that lingers in the (icy!?) heart of the protagonist; Bo Ra's house, almost a gilded prison, up to the basketball court that returns also in the heartbreaking finale...
As is common in other productions, the role of nature is central, both in the snowy sequences and in those where it is the sea that increasingly, almost overwhelmingly, emphasizes the lyricism of the drama; for example, the sequences at the grave of the friend/brother, which personally have always made me think of my favorite Murakami Haruki book, 'Norwegian Wood' ...
Touching and melancholic without ever being intrusive, the soundtrack is the further strength of this extraordinary drama, a kind of contemporary fairy tale that is a truly perfect transposition of Andersen's sadly melancholic universe...
I decided to re-watch this gem a distance of a few years, after, what an irony for a drama-fan such myself! Fate has stripped me, in a short space of time, of some of the most beloved people who have accompanied my life... When one loses, affections, loves, friendships, beyond the pain and inner wounding, one questions oneself and seeks answers as to why things happen...
Just like the characters in the drama, we are constantly asking ourselves many questions, and the reflection on the differences between mathematics, which is always able to provide answers, and life, which acts by chance and very often does not provide answers, is perhaps the best possible metaphor or the perfect theorem to sum up not only this drama, but the lives of many people...
10/10
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Ciascuno forgia il proprio destino.
Se uno vuole imparare come rovinare la propria vita con i sensi di colpa e un atteggiamento masochista , qui troverà tanti spunti.Non sopporto le situazioni di chi cade e si fa male ma non si rialza e si piange addosso. Per buona parte delle puntate , in questo dramma , si assiste a questa situazione.
Questa commedia ha molta tristezza e affanno in sé ; per fortuna il finale può dirsi positivo.
Non mi piacciono le storie tristi, ciò non toglie che si tratta un lavoro fatto bene sia come regia che come recita.
La scenografia lascia a tratti a desiderare per la costante altalena nel carattere dei personaggi e del loro dialogo oltre che del comportamento. Alcuni personaggi sono presentati con incoerenza, sopratutto quella del padre che è persona quando ottusa e intransigente e trasportato dall'emotività e quando invece empatico e comprensivo, pacato , saggio, lungimirante e concessivo. Poi c'è discrepanza anche nel carattere di qualche amico : fedeli che stimano e sono affidabili e solidali e poi senza sostanziali motivi recriminano, rigettano , disistimano e abbandonano ritornando poi , incoerentemente ad essere amici fidati per gli stessi motivi per cui si erano allontanati. . La cosa che più mi ha disturbata in questo dramma è l'altalena dei discorsi e dell'intreccio : duri aspri e dolci e amorevoli non solo nello stesso personaggio ma in alternativamente fra i personaggi.
Gli attori principali sono ammirevoli. Hyun Bin è eccellente : addirittura ha postura accasciata e schiena curva quando rappresenta il costante mortificato Han Deuk Goo, poi la postura diventa eretta , le spalle più larghe e la testa più alta quando ridiventa il rinato Han Tae Woong che riprende in mano la sua vita e si dà dei traguardi.
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29/02/2024This is a 2006 production which I actually liked regardless of its age.
If you want to know what it is about - read the Synopsis.
It is a sad drama with a bittersweet ending, but one with no regrets, closure where it was needed most and ultimately being able to forgive, move on and to have known true love.
It isn't perfect and does have its flaws, also, if there was less of a love story and more on just the main male character's math genius I wouldn't have minded whatsoever.
I probably would have appreciated it more!
What can be taken away from this drama is that life should still be lived regardless of someone committing suicide or whatever it might be that is the cause of a person's death.
Some mentioned (other sites) that they weren't invested in the male lead after some point and thought Bora's character evolved to be a better person.
I don't agree.
She didn't really change that much - she just toned down her outbursts and stroppy behaviour plus she has no choice but to resign to the fact that her fate was out of her hands.
It would have been better had she not just given back the words he gave to her - but also to encourage him to live guilt free, live life to the fullest and to find love again so he would never be alone or lonely.
It is worth the watch and even being re-watched.
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