Since episode 1, “What Comes After Love” has showcased nice writing, appearing, and course, making it stand out amongst different dramas in the identical style. With just one episode left, most dramas are inclined to falter at this level, however not this one. As an alternative, it continues to enhance.
From the humane portrayal of Min Jun (Hong Jong Hyun) to the wonderful writing of Hong (Lee Se Younger) and Jungo’s (Sakaguchi Kentaro) breakup scene, listed below are three issues that episode 5 of “What Comes After Love” did proper.
Warning: spoilers for episode 5 forward!
Min Jun not being a foul man
The preview for episode 5 exhibits Min Jun going to Jungo’s e-book signing occasion and asking if he is aware of Hong. Realizing how catastrophes usually unfold when the feminine lead’s ex-boyfriend, who remains to be in love together with her, and the fiancé she by no means liked meet, viewers had been not sure how this scene would play out. Since Jungo is clearly the male lead, there was a risk of turning Min Jun into the dangerous man to make it simpler for the viewers to root for Hong and Jungo. Nevertheless, as “What Comes After Love” is grounded in actuality, Min Jun’s response stays equally grounded.
Even when Jungo asks him for a favor, saying, “Please, by no means make her really feel alone,” Min Jun snickers and replies, “As if that’s tough.” His response would possibly come off as impolite to some, however the delicate appearing of Hong Jong Hyun makes it simple to really feel his ache as properly.
Think about, Min Jun has liked Hong for so long as he’s identified her, however earlier than he can muster the braveness, she leaves for Japan. After she returns, heartbroken, he’s there together with her, not letting her really feel alone, but he is aware of one thing is lacking between them. Although she’s with him, her coronary heart isn’t. Then her ex comes again into their life with a e-book that he wrote so Hong would perceive him. And when Min Jun asks him to avoid her, as an alternative, he offers her relationship recommendation, as if his relationship with Hong was unsuccessful within the first place.
When Min Jun says, “Avoid my Hong,” there’s love and ache in his phrases, making you are worried about his frame of mind when he and Hong finally break up.
The fantastic thing about the “unread letter”
There’s a letter inside a light-weight inexperienced envelope, hidden in a guitar case and shielded from the merciless passage of time—from Jungo to Hong. After 5 years of not realizing about its existence, Hong lastly reads it the day she is ready to be formally proposed to by her fiancé Min Jun. The letter reads as follows:
“Beni, did you get house safely? You’ve been gone for a month already, however I really feel as if I’m nonetheless caught on the day you left. Why couldn’t I discover how lonely you had been? I shouldn’t have left you alone like that. I shouldn’t have allow you to go away me like that. Why did I feel we had been collectively the entire time, though I left you alone for thus lengthy? Nevertheless, I’ll bury my regrets in my coronary heart identical to the phrases from the poems you left me. I’ll attempt to stroll my very own path any more. If I proceed on that path, I really feel like I would see you someday.”
There’s a magnificence that’s arduous to pinpoint. This letter, written by Jungo to Hong after he made her really feel lonely for months, isn’t a plea for her to come back again or a promise to be a greater particular person, which isn’t potential in a month.
As an alternative, it’s a hope that life can be type sufficient for them to satisfy once more someday. If Hong had learn this letter 5 years in the past, maybe it will have helped her to forgive Jungo and transfer on, and perhaps she may have really fallen in love with Min Jun. Nevertheless, this letter sparked a tiny flicker of their love, igniting her coronary heart as quickly as she learn it.
Although the letter was learn 5 years late, it looks as if it was at all times meant to be learn right now.
Hong and Jungo’s breakup scene
In episode 5, we lastly see the complete breakup scene between Hong and Jungo, which had beforehand been proven in fragments. Whether or not it’s the attractive appearing of Lee Se Younger and Sakaguchi Kentaro, the writing, or each, the scene is gut-wrenching.
Through the breakup, we don’t study extra particulars than we already knew, however small parts make the scene excellent.
First, whereas Hong is screaming her coronary heart out, Jungo hugs her to consolation her. However Hong pulls away; she now not sees their bodily connection as comforting throughout their fights however as an alternative as Jungo’s method of stopping the combat so issues can return to how they had been—distant.
Second, mid-argument, Hong switches from Japanese to Korean. Not solely does this spotlight how painful it’s to elucidate your self in a language that isn’t yours, nevertheless it additionally exhibits that she is now not talking to Jungo. She has already distanced herself from him bodily, and now she is transferring away emotionally by refusing to let him perceive her ache.
Lastly, she calls Jungo by his actual title as an alternative of the Korean nickname she gave to him, Yun Ho. He’s now not the person she liked, the one she shared her mattress and desires with. He’s as soon as once more only a man she met on a random road, a person who now means nothing to her.
Hong lastly made the choice, which she had been dreading. She broke up with Min Jun, shattering his coronary heart within the course of, but in addition liberating him from a one-sided relationship. Now, the query stays: will she have the ability to grow to be Yun Ho’s Beni, or will she stay Choi Hong?
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At present watching: “Pricey Hyeri” and “What Comes After Love.”
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