The Lady in Red posted: " I came across a show called Misty. I think its an incredible show, all actors play their part perfectly, and the constant last minute reveals leaves us in shock. (At times when I am in the zone of thoughts I can write. The thoughts remain fluent but " Imperfect Lesions Of Life
I came across a show called Misty. I think its an incredible show, all actors play their part perfectly, and the constant last minute reveals leaves us in shock. (At times when I am in the zone of thoughts I can write. The thoughts remain fluent but writing wont be . As slow as I read I type faster than my device can handle please overlook my typo's. Thank you.)
Go watch the show its very edgy.
Spoiler's Ahead!
Thoughts
Ko Hye Ran is news anchor for JBC, she is on her way to retiring but doesnt bat eyes for those who are trying to make her leave. While struggling to keep her position as the face of 9 o'clock news, she would go to any lengths for her career. While the team tries to hand over her seat to her junior, Han Ji Won. She is not ready to give her position to her just yet. On her way home she is reminded of burning passion with someone and when she reaches home she wonders why she keeps getting reminded of it. Her mother is old and difficult to handle and her marriage to a Public defender is nearly non existent. Her mother in law is ready to hand out divorce papers each moment when things are already difficult for her.
Every moment she steps in the newsroom she is unwelcomed by Oh Dae Woong who is rooting for Han ji Won for some bizzare reason.
In order to constantly go back and forth with Han Ji Won who is ready to take the position as though a predator stealing food from another's mouth. It is really a life on the edge and as people try to control the situation she tries to control it by manipulation. None the less both husband and wife believe in justice.
Her husband Kang Tae Wook is near to divorce his wife because each time they go out he has to pretend to still stick to her. There is no love seen between the two and they sleep in separate rooms, not even interact few words to each other.
But still the shows makes us believe there was love in this marriage from Tae wook. The show follows a crime that has occured, an accident near a tunnel where the whole car is damaged and a person has died. Ko Hye Ran is called as a suspect instead of having to do nothing with the murder.
It is pretty aparent from her behaviour that she has done dirty deeds, will fight more dirty to keep her position so one can understand why she is the suspect. But everyone including her husband suspects her. It is somewhat a risky situation because she is not really hiding the murder but her failed relationship.
Hye Ran is heard to do the impossible to stay on the news while her mother has passed away on the same day. She is supposed to pursuade a Kevin Lee, a pro golfer who has returned from USA to South Korea. As she struggles to keep her position instead of being responsible daughter and attend her mother who has passed away. She realises she has already lost as she meets Kevin Lee who is formerly known as Lee Jae Young, her lover from her past. The man whom she keeps dreaming but she isnt welcoming to him. When she sees that the predators have won. She tries to ask his wife for help who was her supposed friend from high school.
Kevin has cards up his sleeve. He is ready to reveal everything. He is like that person who is still hung up on her even if their relationship was for one year. He uses manipulation and every moment he could get to mock. He basically became a pro golfer when his wife did all the work to support her. He became it out of spite to prove Hye Ran he is not a nobody. Hye Ran impressed Tae Wook who was instantly smitten on the first time he saw her call out the head public defender. After a few interactions he decides he wants her to marry him. She doesnt give in that easily. Tae wook thinks he is the one who has always loved her but he doesnt know she has done it too. They fall in love but she uses him and he lets her use his position to get ahead in her career. A husband with a huge name and family that is of reputation, life still wasnt easy as she was unwelcomed as a reporter and his parents never showed her one ounce of respect until she was on the news as anchor. That is the most superficial level one can be on but that drives Hye ran to pick her career over her baby.
Kevin Lee and Seo Eun Joo
While Kevin showcases love towards Seo Eun Joo, it is always a show off Hye Ran could see it that he is doing it to entice her. She fights with him and tries to not fall in his trap. She sees Han Ji Won try to seduce him so she lets pushes her towards him to get out of their way. She takes her new anchor and ex all in one shot by msking her reporter friend take pictures of them kissing. It is just day 1 in Korea and he does that he sure isnt the scorned lover but a nasty man who thinks he is driven by rejected love but there is nothing great about him. In order to keep her back and not let his image tarnish. He plans to take Hye Ran to Thailand for an interiew and get her in same position by forcing himself on her and letting his manager take pictures in order to blackmail.
It is obvious that he doesnt love her but claims to ruin her life for love. She believes that her memories with her were good in past so in order to save herself she tries to do her bidding by voluntarily saying everything he wants to hear in order to hush it all up. Tae Wook witnesses Kevin getting into her car and is heartbroken.
Tae Wook's character represents as irony. He claims he loves her but there is no relationship present between husband and wife. She tries to win him over by taking the case he is leading and trying to bring truth over co incidentally also bringing Kevin down who has invested on that company. While Tae Wook constantly recalls proposing a business deal saying he loves her so she will eventually follow. He shows her his power and support which has lead her there. Later she aspires to become a spokesperson to house of Blue, presidency. The aspiration tends to be hypocritical because he wants to give her everything and wants her to change and not be greedy towards her success. It is him feeding the success and saying he wants her to be compassionate. Kevin is upfront to Tae Wook who has also come to Thailand on an excuse that he wants to suppirt her for spokersperson candidacy.
It is very difficult to say who is the victim when everyones a hyena ready to eat the flesh when they get the slightest chance. Han Ji Won still continues her affair with Kevin and his wife that looks all innocent knows all about it. She is still shattered that she loves and supports him despite his constant infedility.
So the question is who was in the accident or murdered?
Kevin lee, the amusing part is not that he died. It is that he died with just one push. I started laughing at the serious scene at the end. One push is all it takes to kill a man that is an athlete of that height, that built, he is much more strong in strength just look at him in Fiery Preist. That scene really does him injustice. I really love Go Jun. He was good villain in Fiery Preist. He is a handsome chistled man and the fact that I hated him in this show just shows how superb of an actor he is but not enough to convince of his death. It might as well behave like Penthouse and bring him back from the death where he faked it. I would have enjoyed his villainy some more. Jokes aside I am glad they didnt pull that but his ending seems impossible to me. He wouldnt go down with a single push.
Hye Ran is the consistent suspect for the show but my suspect was Tae Wook. He doesnt go to Thailand to see if Hye will go up in her position. He goes there to see if she is having affair. Seriously people if you are divorcing your wife and tearing it apart when you realise you have done her wrong. And the next moment all you do is suspect her that aint marriage. That is beyond over, he meets Kevin's side of story where Kevin directly says that he had an affair with Hye Ran and gives him the pin to retyurn it to her. It is obvious that sometimes Tae Wook lets Hye Ran walk all over him but he is willing to do it again and again. That night when Hye Ran is blackmailed with pictures from Thailand Kevin is found dead. The detective constantly gets behind Hye ran like a dog and tries to even fight with forensics expert to call it homicide.HYe Ran gets into a a change of alliance as Eun Joo finds out that the moments Hye Ran had to fake kiss Kevin for him to stop blackmail. She sees that video and tries taking her down. She approches Tae Wook who is beyond loyal to Hye Ran it appears so. She tries to get him to stay late hours at her place, eat dinners, go to hospital to her baby's condition. Oh and yes the cheating lying deceased is the father her baby.
At this point everyone behaves like they are pure they all are not. They all play victim but they arent.
I think there is only one victim that comes to mind at the end. It will be Ha Myung woo.
In past, Ko Hye Ran is a reporter aspiring to become an Anchor for 9 o clock news for JBC. In school, she has a best friend, Ha Myung Woo whom she loves more than anyone. One day because of borrowing money from a jewellery shop, the man who owns it tries to put his hands on Hye Ran. When Ha Myung Woo hears about it he runs to the shop and murders the man for laying his hands on her. Hye Ran protests that nothing happened while fixing her shirt which leads Myung Woo to decide to take the fall and she was never at the scene of crime.
In that instant Hye Ran couldnt let go of him but she couldnt change what has happened. She would frequently go meet him and later he would refuse. Because of Ha Myung Woo cared so much even beyond prison walls, Hye Ran receives money enough to go to college. She never really forgets him. Each time people are ready to tear her apart she stays strong because of what he has done for her.
Ha Myung Woo
He is seriously the best character. He loves her so much that he goes to prison. People usually resent others if they go to prison wrongfully but not him. He willingly does it to protect her from being robbed of her innocence. Detective thinks she killed the shop owner but she just stands there facing consequences. At every point when she is not looking, Ha Myung Woo ets out of prison, he sees Tae Wook and tries to be his dirty man but he is doing it all to stay close and protect her even after rotting in prison he uses that time to build his body and mind. He sees the manager blackmailing her and he kidnaps the man and tries tk beat him to lie when he gets caught. He is made to repeat over and over that he did it not because of Thailand photos a potential love affair cant make her a suspect but also can though. He takes the sd card and walks over to Hye ran and gives it to her. She is shocked to see him but there is a deep rooted admiration and love for him. At the same time she lives the nightmare that he murdered that man for nothing when Seo Jun plans on using the video recording from Hye Rabs car to show that she is the one who murdered him. Tae Wook goes to her house suspecting she must have uncovered something. It is seriously stupid how she doesnt hand it over to police the moment she finds it.
On the night of his death, she is on the high of breaking her marriage off and he willingly walks out when he receives a phone call. He puts his rings on the table. She thinks its Hye Ran but its actually Ji Won calling. He instructs the manager to keep an eye on Hye ran after putting photos of their "affair" on her bonnet. He fails to follow her when she leaves but Tae Wook follows them. At the point they showed Tae Wook follow then I knew he was the murderer. Must it be said? But then we keep seeing him suffer every day with every reveal from her past. He cant seem to help but cry at the things she has faced. Being sexually assaulted by shop owner, being driven hungry to become an anchor, losing her baby to please her inlaws? Taking their hatred day in day out, being in relationship with Jae Young in past ( why must it shock him when she is upfront that she is with someone and you still propose marriage.) and lastly taking Tae Wooks hypocritical love.
I think to some level I feel sorry for the main couple. They should have signed divorce papers and moved on, no one would have died that way. In one reveal it is shown that Myong woo hadnt magically goes to Hye Rans rescue, he was told by Eun Joo who knew that the jewellry shop owner was pervert with a bad reputation and she still calls to Myong woo who runs as though he should have done nothing while Hye ran gets assaulted.
Eun Joo and Kevins marriage seemed picture perfect to the eyes of camera but it is shadier than the jewellry shop incident. Eun Joo does the same thing Tae Woo does for Hye Ran. She manages the finances, makes sure they have a roof and that he plays better. She is like the jockey and the horse is Kevin. Without the blinds on his eyes he would be running lose. And at the same time she is fed up because she tries to be loved by him again its a business deal for both the couple.
The end is heart breaking to Hye Ran because at every point
When I first saw the very first episode, I see void in their relationship, a lot of loneliness. Tae Wook works hard, and Hye Ran works hard. She wishes he would be as conpassionate towards her the way he does for an innocent who is facing criminal punishment. She thinks he has her back but he is full of doubts. True that he instructs Myong woo to take care of the manager but he does it for his own self. Not a single time he protects her with sincereity and it is revealed more by our observer lover boy, Myong woo. He asks both of them "do they love each other" separately. He tells Tae he knew that he is the only one protecting Hye ran ans not Tae.
Tae and Seo Joo teach is something. If you love someone because you want something from them it is not going to happen. Love is give and recieve not give and take. Just like the monologue from Love yourself from JB mv. Love is not because you do this and that because you have to. You do it because you want to, love is not compulsion, obligation. If you love someone so dearly, you dont go dirty just because they dont love you back. Love is when you do it without any personal gain. (P.S. I killed a mosquito with my bare hand while writing this. Just wanted to say that it has nothing to do with what I was discussing.)
If you find yourself saying you claim to love someone. You know those wives who know about the affair and dont demand much and keep on staying and doing everything they can, they sound pathetic to people but they have the courage to truly love the man who fails to love himself. Love is really a beautiful thing, it can heal the deepest scars, it will never be the reason for ones tears if truly one thinks their love has brought then to destruction. It isnt love. Love is complex, Hye Ran loves Tae Woo, she can go to any lengths but while Tae is protraying he loves her, Hye Ran is doing it by being loyal to him when he is not watching. When she is showing up after finding out he has killed him and sat beside her while she gets a probable guilty charge for real murder. She still stays with him and embraces him. I do find that each headline is made big even as the person is getting arrested the main lead of their show. But like the director says, it is a show! It is entertained by someones misery.
Love is really a beautiful thing, it can heal the deepest scars, it will never be the reason for ones tears if truly one thinks their love has brought then to destruction. It isnt love. When one claims to love the other, we always expect something its human nature. If you look at the most famous marriages publicly ruined you might understand people who have spectators are living a difficult life. It isnt easy to love someone else, only cowards run away and be afraid of commitment. If one faces their true self everyone is having a selfish cause. Eun Joo would have chosen to be with her baby and make her or him her everything but instead she chooses to take Hye ran down based on her suspicion. When two women who have equally lost everything, their reputation, someone they love and their own peace one can say that the ambitions in life can give us a path to lead but no fame, no glory can bring us happiness.
Hye Ran really behaves like she has done her bidding to the devil by being greedy for her career. Tae Woo who is filled with jealousy, Kevin full of lust, Eun Joo full of deceptoon. It is Myung woo that reminds us that everyone chose their path separately. None of the others are to blame. He willingly chose to murder the shop keeper to save Hye Ran, Tae willingly pushed Kevin when Kevin was humiliating his distrust, Eun Joo could have kept the death as a blessing because she had declared the marriage to be over. In order to support the baby and herself she would have lost the finances. It is also her greed that leads her down that path, she doesnt back far up when she realises her husbands betrayal, her friends betrayal, why must she pursue it while pregnant. She chose to love her hatred more than love and care for her baby and consequently had miscarriage. Hye Ran finding out the traffic violation on the same night of Kevins death show cases that she chooses to overlook that but when she finds the purchase of new shoes and clothes she realises he planned on staying silent even if she was convicted for the crime she didnt commit. It is that he doesnt really love her as much as he claimed he did. He remained loyal to his own self in the end.
In the show their house reeks of sadness. While Eun Joo has lost, she does manage to give misery to Hye Ran by asking her if she is happy.
Are you happy?
In life despite money, love, career and all the wrong aspirations in the end the word happiness is too ambigious. You cant constantly be happy but it is upto oneself to become happy. Example it rains for everyone, everyone walking under same rain getting drenched dont feel same about it. Some cry while some feel joy. No power, fame, money is going to buy you happiness. People can buy stuff from money, life can be made relatively easy but it cannot buy happiness. If one calls buying things as happiness one has to go broke sooner to satisfy it. The happiness is not outside but inside. One cannot always be satified by outside situations, miseries but its upto onself how one reacts. They can jut stop and embrace happiness.
My mom asked me last week of why I remain happy when i have no one around, when I dont go out much or interact much. She doesnt understand introversion but like I said before. Sun rises and I walk outside, I go through pot holes and same traffic others face. I can either be angry about it or just embrace it. I can notice the warmth of the sun or call it harsh, admire the cold on the hottest day or complain about the hot day. We can choose to complain about misfortunes. I have spoken of my misfortunes but I have receieved criticism rather than a listener who doesnt judge. The unknown faces, the family? Friends, media, society everyone tells us to aim for high income, a good married life, kids, etc. It tells us to aim for what we dont have. And tarnish and spit on the things we do have. When my coworkers despised me I realise this today it was because even in the worst times I was very much happy within. I am not the brightest, the richest, the amitious kind of person but when horrible situations come my way. I choose to eat the ice cream. I choose to enjoy the kindness of the sun when I am cold. I enjoy the company of a stray dog when I am walking travelling all alone. They wag their tail and sit with me sometimes and many times I have been escorted by dogs. You can be having nothing and be unhappy and have nothing and be happy it all depends on your choice. Hye ran teaches us not to be a people pleaser and fight hard for the truth. She also teaches us from her mistakes to love and care for those around us.
In the fight between love and ambition. I hope you choose to love yourself. Specially all the ladies out there, there are few men who really honestly love and then there are those who dont know self love so they destroy the lives around them like Kevin. Ladies if you married a man in hopes that he will be your prince charming. You know Cinderella didnt aspire to meet the prince she just aspired to be free. She worked hard and worked on her self, tge fairy godmother was just her own mind giving her hope and to stay strong. If at all you get trampled by the world which is ready to do that. Just dont fall a victim. Dont be a victim by your own will. Dont stay in a marriage that will give you nothing.
To Tae like people who claim to love their ambitious wife and at the same time dont like it when they are more at work than at home. Its like saying you love chocolate while being allergic to it. Dont be hypocritical towards what you want in your partner.
I have no advices for f-boys like Kevin who use excuses just to be disloyal and deceptive. No advices can change such a man or women because their true nature is to not love themselves. If one loves oneself enough they dont try to hurt those who have hurt them. They walk away when they are being hurt.
Kevin is also mass representation of people today. Thats the heart breaking part. Undertand the difference between self obsessed and self loving two are not synonymous. The person who willingly constantly chooses to lie, cheat and blackmail promising any relationship or real love, it will be like death by quick sand. Its easy to mistake quick sand for a promising ground. As you reason you are sinking you struggle more, the more you do the more quickly you go down. No matter how great of a saint gets into a relationship with a bad boy or bad girl, they will become like the company they keep and walk into self detsruction. That is people advice to RUN from such a relationship, such a person.
The end
Hye ran convinces her director that she will do interview with her husband who will reveal the crime he commited. The detective shows up like a grim reaper making the guilt which Tae is already feeling aftwr meeting Myung woo to double. The roads are covered with heavy fog just like their relationship. Movibg forward will still lead to a crash which is what Tae Woo does. As he is passing and driving through the tunnel he speeds up meaning he decides to end his life once more. ( First time with Kevin and second time I think he succeeds. ) The ending is supposed to be ambigious because we dont see what happens in the fog as his car disappears and eyes close.
So what made Tae end his life ? Myong woo tells Tae when he is gone to surrender himself in police station. Tae's manager delivers the message that he will be taking the fall and Tae's punishment is to be beside Hye Ran. Because he has betrayed her, not protected her and fails to protect her. Coming face to face and trying to meet gaze with the person one has wronged is difficult when you calim to love and protect them. At first glance one thinks it is Hye Ran whose drive for ambition drive two men to their deaths but like Myung woo said everyones driver of their own car, their own choices, their own mistakes and situations. The greed that Hye Ran persuaded so much in the end when the audience member asks her if she is Happy. It echo's in her mind that she has never once been happy. She has lived a miserable life, a tv life is a made up life. What we see on the social media is all made up. The parts where her husband did love her was when Kevins manager tries to run her over but Tae runs towards her ion the street. That is the time he did try protecting her even risking his life for her.
I always admired high rankers, ambitious people knowing well I couldnt be like them. When I met some of my clasmates who were suffering from same rain I realised that people with high ranks envied me for my happy nature while I envied them for their ambition. Ambition in life just stands for a path. It is not a destination. Your life is a journey and not a destination. The destination is death. You have highs and lows. But it is very important to not lose the sight of what one has and what one is, when I worked with highly ambitious people I was suprised to met the most depressed ambitious people who lacked slice of life, they looked down on me but also themselves. At the same time I also met one person who is successful, ambitious, has good family ans children, looked at me with admiration even though I have just spoken about my dreams and looked truly happy inside out. So it is basically upon us whether to focus on the bad or the good. Everything is inside.
There is a phrase one uses that means to turn gold from nothing. People use it for having vigour but I think gold is in the eyes of beholder. World isnt black and white. You can never see someone elses hardship but you can choose whether to wisen up or remain a dud who claims on stickng to same mistakes in life.
It is evident from Hye Rans face, that is still and wondering in the direction who asked if she is happy. She can hear her husbands voice and eyes full of tears, she has found the position she worked so hard for. She fought all this time for it but is she happy? Is she happy in her marriage? individually? In friendship? At work? Internally? Mentally? The masterpeiece unfolds through hwe eyes. She is not really happy despite the obsessive drive to crash. I really enjoyed watching this drama.
It really is easy to criticize and hard to become head strong let us strive harder to pursue our ambitions well balanced to our our mental health.
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