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There is something in the rain
For once, Son Ye-jin is not your melodrama queen.
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I did not expect this.
Over a month I completed my first crash course on Korean movies and TV shows. The module is called Immersion and it chipped away approximately 100 hours (approx. 14%) of my time pie. My latest is a 2018’s series that initially made me dumbfounded upon reading its title. There is Something in the Rain.
Maybe there is no bad romance.
If I could summarize the romantic comedy in one word, it is delicate. It’s also funny, witty, empowering, feisty, adorable and page-turning (from one episode to another). No one would deny the fact that the fame of Son Ye-jin has skyrocketed thanks to the phenomenon of Crash Landing on You (CLOY). Two years ago, I managed to catch a glimpse of her performance in the Negotiation, a thriller that she co-starred in with her partner in CLOY, Hyun Bin. She did not share the same scene with the villainous Hyun Bin until the very end of the show. I remember telling my friend: “Wow, I can’t imagine if they were involved from the beginning of the movie.” (And I told you so.) In her most natural way, her smile is infectious. This has been true in both fictional and real life. That’s the beauty of being ordinarily extraordinary. Effortless. I learned this from my dad. A wise man he is.
Noona is how a guy calls an older sister
Something in the Rain (SITR) is also titled Pretty Noona Who Bought Me Food. The idea apparently came from Song Hye-Kyo who candidly mentioned she always bought food for his eventual partner Soong Joong-ki and her best friend Yoo Ah-in. Both established actors are younger than her. The pretty noona in SITR is how Jung Hae In called Son Ye-jin. If you need a character to announce that your strong comeback from the national military services, that’s the role you want to land. Certainly, Jung Hae In with his babyish, pale and clean look, the audience (including my Korean drama guru)…
