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Argh, the audacity of that woman! How can she, of all people, tell In Ha to be a proper reporter and present evidence to prove Chan Soo’s innocence?! The audacity and the utter lack of conscience and any sort of integrity in that woman makes me want to puke. If at one point I thought Cha Ok can be redeemed and that while she was in the wrong about good reporting, she herself believed that what she was doing was reporting, I can no longer hold to any of that. I don’t care if she is a mere puppet of Ro Sa. Cha Ok has shown that she knows that what she is doing is not real journalism. She knows she is being used to cover up something and she willingly does it. Cha Ok is not interested in becoming a good reporter; she is just interested in fame and prestige. I thought that even though Cha Ok thought journalism was fact + impact, at least Cha Ok believed that what she was doing was journalism. If that was the case, all that she needed to do was learn that she was wrong. It would be a matter of correcting knowledge, not the humanity of a person. But now I know that Cha Ok is not interested in real journalism and that there is no hope for her in the field anymore. Cha Ok just needs to leave and go into a another field in which her selfish ambitions can cause less harm.
Once again we have someone guilty until proven, not the other way around. Cha Ok keeps asking for evidence to prove Chan Soo is not responsible but the fact that she even gets to use the CCTV footage as evidence of his guilt annoys me to no end. I’m annoyed that In Ha is stumped when her mom demands evidence from her and I’m annoyed that Ha Myung agrees to bring the evidence. It annoys me to no end that In Ha and Ha Myung have to even respond to this nonsense.
I’m so annoyed that I’m annoyed by the growing lack of subtlety in this drama in pushing its point. The plot moves faster than other dramas and there are lots of twists and turns and revelations to keep the story interesting, and there is always a heart-warming moment in ech episode to keep the drama more relatable, but overall, there is a mechanical feel in this drama- like I am watching the levers, pulleys, wedges, and wheels moving in machine to churn out a story. But the parts are too big and their movements too large to allow for any quiet subtlety in the drama anymore. You can see in the some on the editing and changes in lighting that the drama is started to do live shoot filming and the episodes are being produced in a rush. I hate this system that takes away so much from a drama- careful thought, planning, interesting camera work, room to let a story build or contract, and good mise-en-scene.
I was particularly struck by the way Ro Sa asked Beom Jo what she was doing wrong. She couldn’t see that any of her actions were wrong and her question was so much like Cha Ok’s when she asks if what she did was wrong. Neither woman can see or believe that what they did was wrong and this is the similarity in the two antagonists of this drama. What the protagonists in this drama share is their ability to emphasize- not only sympathize with others but to truly experience another’s pain so that they are motivated to change the situation that is causing the pain. Ro Sa and Cha Ok can’t see or experience from the view of those who are suffering, but people like In Ha, Dal Po, and Grandpa can, which leaves them raw and vulnerable to the troubles of the world. But I say it’s better than being thick-skinned like Cha Ok.
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