#Now we are breaking up

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holding for sehun: day 245 of 639 ↳ EXO SEHUN as Hwang Chi Hyung in NOW, WE ARE BREAKING UP | 2021

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

在公園和公共場所我最恨看到抽菸的人不將他們的菸蒂帶走，請勿將菸蒂丟在地上，這是最基本的教養；如果有人敢在我眼前丟菸蒂，我肯定會過去糾正他(她)，我不怕被打，因為他得先評估是否能打贏我。

In parks and public places, I hate to see people who smoke don’t take their cigarette butts away, don't throw your cigarette butts on the ground, this is the most basic education; if someone dares to throw a cigarette butt in front of my eyes, I will definitely pass to correct him (her), I am not afraid of being beaten, because he has to evaluate whether he can beat me first.

Lan~*

[kesmat-khaled]

والله كان نفسي يابني😂

[idontwanttowhy]

Now, We Are Breaking Up (2021)

*In heavily Korean-accented textbook French* comme çi comme ça...

Synopsis: Cold-hearted fashion designer Ha Young-Eun has a one-night stand with a man she encounters while visiting Paris for fashion week, and thinks nothing of it. But the two meet again when Young-Eun poses as her friend on a blind date. Young-Eun is clearly not interested in getting to know him, but the date, freelance photographer Yoon Jae-Gook, is curious about her. Fate has his back when Young-Eun has to enlist him to save a fashion shoot, and when, back in Seoul, her company also hires him. They are drawn to each other, and find they also have a connected past.

AC Overall: 7/10, bit slow but complex and intriguing story

There's...a lot going on in this show. Yet simultaneously, not a lot at all. It's definitely a mature melodrama without the typical happy ending, so if you're looking for a cute rom-com, or even satisfying romance, definitely look elsewhere.

The major message in this show seems to be: love is not necessarily the dream we are usually sold. Love takes on different forms, can be letting go as much as it is holding on. Maybe the writers, like me, just finished re-reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist or are having a Deepak Chopra moment or something. But they have a point. Be prepared to be both sad with the ways things develop, and comforted by more expansive ways of loving others than we're use to in the most popular kdramas, and media in general.

AC Review with spoilers:

The plot is so wild I couldn't stop watching to find out what happens, despite the show being slow off the bat: as an aspiring fashion designer studying abroad in Paris, Young-Eun encounters Soo Wan, a fellow Korean also visiting Paris short-term, through his brother; they start dating, quickly develop a summer romance, etc, but en route for a reunion/rekindling in Seoul, Soo Wan dies in a car accident. Homegirl thinks she was stood up (whereas she was LITERALLY GHOSTED), and holds a grudge against love and relationships. 10 years later, we see her on a blind date posing as her friend/coworker Hwang Chi-Sook, where her date is Jae-Gook, a photographer...and the guy she had a one night stand with the night before. They exchange pleasantries without addressing the éléphante in the room, and Young-Eun makes an excuse to leave abruptly. But as fate would have it, the photographer for an important photoshoot drops out, so Young-Eun enlists Jae-Gook's help. He jumps at the opportunity to see her again and is intrigued when he realizes she isn't the real Chi-Sook at the shoot. They flirt; he toys with her in ways that are supposed to be sexy, but are decidedly not. They meet again in Seoul, and "flirt" some more, but Young-Eun clearly has her reservations about getting romantically involved. But he is persistent, and she lets go just enough for feelings to develop (theoretically, we don't actually see much feeling on her part...yikes). Soon after, of course, a spanner is thrown in the works: Jae-Gook realizes that Young-Eun is the same Young-Eun from his late brother's romantic tryst while visiting him in Paris for a summer 10 years ago...his late brother's GREAT LOVE, the one the brother almost broke his engagement for (yes he was actually cheating on his FIANCÉE with Young-Eun, who also happens to work with Young-Eun frequently in Seoul). It was Young-Eun who he was on his way to meet before he died in the car accident. And GET THIS. Turns out the car accident was inadvertently caused by the fiancée. Because she thought Soo Wan was going to run off with Young-Eun and leave her behind, she followed him and swerved in front of his car to stop him from going, but he swerves into construction on the sidewalk.......AND Soo Wan had decided moments before, on a call with Jae-Gook no less, that he was going to break up with Young-Eun because he couldn't face making the "wrong" choice for his family!! PHEW. And with all that the whole time I sat there thinking...GAH. With all this history, these two want to be together? Their entangled-beyond-belief past sounds like a giant RED FLAG to me! Not to mention the complication of being the (half, but still) brother of the man that made her swear off love?? And sir, how can you still want to be with the woman your brother was hoping to be with??? (Idk if I'm just immature, but it's a little icky to me, tbh. Akin to dating a close friend's ex-partner...) AND she's who the mother blames for the death of her eldest (and only biological) son! To me, there were enough reasons to not continue any sort of relationship. But alas, ~allofthat~ was more of a concern for everyone around them than it was for the stars of the show. And the storyline would have you believe they were the ones meant to be together all along, with Young-Eun "saving Jae-Gook from turning away from his career" after buying and cherishing one of his first photos on the streets of Paris all those years ago, without knowing it was his photo. And with Jae-Gook inadvertently naming Young-Eun's clothing line that summer too--he had left an encouraging note on a post-it in an aspiring designer's portfolio...the portfolio Soo Wan (the dead brother, keep up) was tasked with delivering--and thus, how Soo Wan and Young-Eun met. GOSH. Anyway, they ponder how weird life is for a hot second, and promptly resume hooking up. Lovely. But their actual downfall ended up being that Jae-Gook's life leads him to Paris, and Young-Eun's to stay in Seoul.

Knowing that a relationship would be a ticking time bomb, Jae-Gook and Young-Eun agree to date for two seasons (spring and summer of course) and part ways when they will inevitably need to, lest they dim each other's light. A ~mature~ decision in some ways, and one not everyone can handle. I can't help but go back to The Alchemist, how the main character finds the woman he wants to be with on his way to achieving his "Personal Legend"/life's pursuit, and makes the hard decision to leave her behind and continue his perilous journey rather than stay. Like our leads here, he understood love to be a guiding force on the path of life, that can push us in a direction we perceive as away from love--when it's truly in the direction of personal fulfillment, where love is at its peak. Had they stayed with their loved ones, all would have seemed nice enough, but ultimately not as great as having left. So, they decided to let themselves pursue what their hearts desired, even though it led them to be in different places.

The side stories, though, breathed more realistic less chaotic life into the drama. Chi-Sook, Young-Eun's chaebol friend, has an adorable arc where she falls for someone she isn't typically attracted to: Seok Do-Hoon, aka the sweeetest man ever, and a grounding match for silly, immature Chi-Sook. Their love was that of holding on, with him loving her regardless of her clear attachment and daddy issues, and resulting misconceptions about our fav. He portrayed a steady, consistent love that didn't demand anything of her beyond her self.

Young-Eun and Chi-Sook's childhood friend Mi-Sook, however, had a love through letting go. She gets diagnosed with late-stage cancer, and prepares for her death by loving as much as she could: through teaching her young daughter how to do things on her own, like bathing, tying her shoes, doing her hair; forgiving her husband for cheating (even asking the side chick over for tea and family shopping...IMAGINE); fulfilling her dream of modeling for Young-Eun's show; and just being present as much as she physically could be. She decided her form of love would be letting go of the future she had imagined, and reckoning with her present in the best way she could.

I watched this drama on Viki, where comments gave me insight into other viewers' thoughts while watching and I gotta say---unsurprisingly people did not understand why the main couple couldn't be long distance, or why Young-Eun wouldn't just move to Paris when she also got a job offer that seemed like it would line up perfectly with Jae-Gook's Paris plans. But we have to understand that love shouldn't anchor. So they took their love with them, using it to walk with their heads high, knowing somewhere in the world there is someone that continues to love them. And I think that's beautiful and probably the best decision for both of them. But it's also the reason the drama gets such mixed reviews. (Also, the amount of people cussing Young-Eun for not accepting the Paris job offer...she knew it was a bad offer?? And why is the onus on her to move when Jae-Gook could have just as well kept his studio in Seoul??? Why were you not also cussing him for making plans to go back to Paris???? aNyWaY.)

Loved the message of the drama, but the experience of watching it was like waiting for water to boil. A good chunk of it was them deciding whether the opposition they faced could be trumped by their love for each other. And than love, I gotta be honest, was not portrayed well by the actors, especially Song Hye-Ko. She had the same deadpan expression as in Descendants of the Sun. I barely felt any chemistry, just had to ~trust~ that they loved each other deeply. Not entirely their fault though, there were not many scenes with intimacy between them that could've shown love. But, when you imagine their love was as great as they said, you can understand the decisions they make. I'll end the review with Jae Gook's and Young-Eun's last thoughts, respectively: "Above the love we left behind, life flows. While the unfading love stays behind there."; "The promises I made with you. Your love has made a path. Walking down that path is my response."

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Im watching Now, we are breaking up because of SEHUN

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Yeah, Kris is definitely NOT alright.

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I am 99.9% certain Caitlyn is the one who breaks things off with Vi

In the pit fighter clip, Vi is clearly spiraling

She’s heavily drinking, sleeping in a closet for an apartment, has 0 regards for her safety or wellbeing or anything really

And I’ve seen a lot of people say Vi has a ton of reasons to spiral that don’t even have to do with Cait, which is so true but

She’s not having hallucinations of those things. She’s not hallucinating Vander or Mylo or even Jinx, she’s hallucinating Caitlyn

She sees her in the crowd dancing, she sees her in the Kiramman crest flags (hanging in the undercity for some reason? 🤔)

And we also see this guy hanging out with Vi at the bar and basically taking care of her, is one of the enforcers from Caitlyn’s squad

So while Vi does have a lot of reasons to spiral that have nothing to do with Caitlyn, whatever happened between them was the last straw

Caitlyn leaving her, is what finally breaks her

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[xandrikart]

The most beautiful thing about Drawtectives is that you can choose any combination and you will be right. But no way I'm ignoring a beautiful garb next to York.

[singinginkorean]

I’m loving this melodrama.

Oh Sehun is an added bonus. He’s doing so well!

OH SEHUN as HWANG CHIHYUNG

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