We have finally reached the second part of Queen of Tears where, as announced, everything changes and now we are in the phase where everything and everyone is questioned, with our characters who have to deal with new realities that will help them get to know each other better. themselves and above all others. But even before this, what was obvious would happen, but was nevertheless hilarious to say the least, is "the war of the worlds" (I take the liberty of quoting the story of the same name by H. G. Wells) that would be created in the moment in which the Hong and Baek families would have united, in particular the former outside their environment, indeed dimetrically opposed, grappling with the rural reality that would have highlighted the differences in a series of scenes, one more tasty than the other. Already immediately Seon-hwa, probably one of the most snobbish and haughty women ever, literally sets foot in the rural world, treading cow dung, giving us a wonderful moment, especially when she is rescued by Bong-ae in what, in another context and with other characters, it would have been a nice romantic scene. Not least the first dinner together, where the clash of worlds comes out more than ever, with the Hongs making absurd requests, such as water imported from abroad by Soo-cheol, only to be brought back down to earth by Hae-in herself with a cuff that leaves everyone stunned. In this regard, a little anecdote: in the scene in question, Hyun-woo's line, i.e. "she doesn't hit me" was improvised by Kim Soo-hyun himself, it was not in the script. Beyond all this, as I said above, this experience also highlights many things about the characters, in particular about Seon-hwa who, although she continues to be haughty and treat Hae-in as if she doesn't care about anything she does, she is It's obvious that you feel jealous when you see Hae-in getting along so well with Hyun-woo's mother, having a real mother daughter relationship that she doesn't have with her real mother. Furthermore, here too we see the clash of worlds, with Hae-in finding Bong-ae's cooking skills extraordinary, given that she, like all the Hongs, have never really had to cook in their lives and therefore activities that are everyday for ordinary mortals, for them they are incredible things. Unfortunately, I fear there is a mixture of pride and irrational resentment on Seon-hwa's part towards Hae-in which doesn't allow her to loosen up towards her, not even when she faints and everyone is worried about her. As Beom-ja will rightly say, unfortunately she will bitterly regret it when she discovers the truth about Hae-in's condition, but until then she will remain on her own. It's worth saying a few words about Hyun-woo and Hae-in's current situation, in which the latter, at least in words, seems eager to separate from him and doesn't want to have anything to do with him anymore, but on the other hand she feels a mixture of pride and happiness when she discovers that the two had already met, briefly, in their school days and that Hyun-woo was so impressed by her that he kept his MP3 player that she dropped on the floor, which made us she says that she is actually still in love with him. Furthermore, in that scene, Hyun-woo fell into the most classic trap: for fear that she would get irritated, he denied that the girl he met that day had left such an impression on him that he looked for her for some time, so if he had replied that it was important to him, Hae-in would have resented... herself, but even so she was hurt. In short, she couldn't win in that situation. It will still be funny when he finds out the truth, since, in the epilogue, he says that he would instantly recognize that girl if he saw her again... Then it's my favorite couple in this drama: Soo-cheol and Da-hye, with the former constantly depressed over her running away with their son. Furthermore, when we learn that Da-hye revealed the whole truth to Soo-cheol in that note, as I wrote on several occasions, I find it extraordinary that the latter does not feel any anger or resentment for having been deceived by her while also discovering that she did not he is the biological father of his son, but only sorry for having lost the people he loves most. Of course, maybe his stupidity also has an impact, which everyone points out and maybe it's also true, but I think Soo-cheol is extremely clear when it comes to Da-hye and their son, proving that his love is sincere and beyond over the tricks she might give him. On the other hand, although Da-hye remains faithful to the conspiracy against the Hongs, in the flashbacks that we see, especially when she decides to use her name and not a fake one, it almost seems that she hopes that he will remember her, that recognizes and that, deep down, she loves him too, even if she isn't aware of it. For example, when we see that as children, Soo-cheol puts a scarf around her neck, she is happy with it, as well as every object she manages to steal from him through trickery, there is an undercurrent of feeling on her part. I think Da-hye realized too late that Soo-cheol was what she wanted in her life. Lastly, a new potential love story opens up for Beom-ja who sees a potential fourth husband in Yeong-song and from here on out we will see some good ones and have great laughs. In this regard, in describing him, Beom-ja says that he resembles Leslie Cheung, who was one of the most important actors and singers on the scene in Hong Kong and China (he is even credited with the birth of the so-called Cantopop) in the years eighty; this is not surprising given that the pop culture generated by Hong Kong in the eighties and nineties was particularly popular in Korea in that period and being Beom-ja a woman who grew up between the eighties and nineties it is normal that she has that imagery as a reference . This also reminds me of Twinklink Watermelon which, set in the mid-nineties, Yi-chan parodies the film A Better Tomorrow in telling his own attack, keeping faith with what I wrote earlier. that is, the Korean imagination of those years was influenced by Hong Kong pop culture. Thanks for the reaction.
