Inform Me That You Love Me: Episodes 11-12
by Dramaddictally
The secrets and techniques are pouring out this week — from the story behind our hero’s traumatic breakup to a delivery secret I wasn’t anticipating. With the artwork exhibition upon us our leads get right down to engaged on their massive profession objectives, however with out lacking out on all of the small moments that make this drama so value it.
EPISODES 11-12
We lastly see how the breakup went down between Jin-woo and Search engine marketing-kyung in school and it’s sufficient to soften the coldest of hearts. All three actors that play Jin-woo all through his life know find out how to remodel their faces into epic heartbreak, however Baek Sung-chul’s pained stare in these flashback scenes turned me right into a puddle.
So, the quick story is that Search engine marketing-kyung breaks up with Jin-woo and flees the nation as a result of she feels depressing whereas he lives in a “peaceable, silent world.” In line with her, he didn’t do something flawed, it’s simply that he can’t hear and that’s not going to vary, so there’s no approach to overcome their variations. Holy harsh, Search engine marketing-kyung.
In fact, we study a lot later that she has different issues occurring however she’s simply not saying it. A couple of episodes in the past, we had been launched to the concept somebody may be following her round in school when she stored listening to this creepy whistling in every single place she went. Now we lastly have some follow-up and study that one other artwork scholar was stalking her — and this loopy dude seems to be the one which set the fireplace she received trapped in.
Search engine marketing-kyung breaks up with Jin-woo proper after the fireplace, however we nonetheless don’t know all the small print about his function in attempting to avoid wasting her (or not) and the way she escaped. The vital half for now’s that our hero was hit with a double trauma. There was the fireplace through which he felt helpless to avoid wasting the girl he cherished, after which he received dumped within the harshest approach. All of this results in the seven years he was off the grid, which Search engine marketing-kyung has simply realized about.
We come again to the second within the current the place Search engine marketing-kyung stops Jin-woo after hours within the museum to apologize for leaving him alone again then. She needs she stayed by his facet. Jin-woo’s expression turns to refined anger and he indicators that it’s his downside, so she doesn’t need to really feel dangerous anymore. Then he marches off to satisfy Mo-eun as she will get out of labor.
The issue, although, is that Search engine marketing-kyung is the director of the artwork gallery and he or she’s orchestrating Jin-woo’s upcoming exhibition. This implies they need to spend a bunch extra time collectively. Issues come to a head simply earlier than the opening when Jin-woo is taken into custody by the police for “property harm” – that’s, they’ve found that he’s the mural artist known as Dino, who’s going round portray on different folks’s partitions.
Search engine marketing-kyung follows Jin-woo to the police station to translate and, afterward, they’ve it out within the parking zone. She begins by saying that she already knew his secret id and provides, “I used to be shocked that the painter I used to be in search of was you.” (Nicely that’s received a double that means if I ever heard one.)
She asks in regards to the seven years after the breakup, for which Jin-woo has no work. He doesn’t wish to clarify it to her and he or she says it broke her coronary heart to search out out he didn’t produce something throughout that point. Then, Jin-woo is signing, however his angered facial expressions and sharp arm actions say that he’s yelling. He tells her to cease apologizing and asking questions. “Cease making me bear in mind all these previous occasions!” He turns to depart — and Mo-eun is standing there watching the entire dialog.
This scene is a knockout. Each Jin-woo and Search engine marketing-kyung are so pained (for various causes), however they’re choking all of it again as they signal to one another. There aren’t any phrases spoken aloud however each emotion comes throughout and the stress is sky excessive.
When Jin-woo tells Mo-eun that he’s the mural artist Dino, she asks about how he picked that title. We see a flashback to when he had simply misplaced his listening to as a baby, however was nonetheless in a faculty the place all the opposite college students may hear. Once they needed to introduce themselves to one another in entrance of the category, he tried to talk however couldn’t hear himself. The opposite children thought he mentioned his title was Cha Dino, they usually ridiculed and teased him mercilessly. Now, he’s retaken the title. (My god, my coronary heart shattered for this child. And it doesn’t make it any simpler that the younger actor, Kim Ji-hoon, may be probably the most cute little one on the planet.)
Jin-woo’s exhibition is successful and the artwork half goes off with no hitch. The issues come up when Search engine marketing-kyung’s stalker exhibits up and Mo-eun hears all about Search engine marketing-kyung’s previous and her lingering emotions for Jin-woo.
First, there’s a well-known artist, KWON DO-HUN (Park Ki-deok), that’s been hanging round for a lot of episodes and performing as an antagonist to Jin-woo. He’s largely been filling in exposition about Jin-woo’s school years, however this time, we see the function he performed in all of it. Do-hun approaches Search engine marketing-kyung on the gallery and begins raving about stalking her and setting hearth to the college constructing — after which calls for to know if Search engine marketing-kyung nonetheless has emotions for Jin-woo.
All of this Mo-eun overhears whereas she’s cuddled up with Jin-woo on a bench outdoors the gallery. He clearly has no concept what’s occurring, and this results in a really unusual dynamic between our leads. Jin-woo can inform one thing is flawed with Mo-eun, however Mo-eun doesn’t wish to inform him what she’s heard.
Later, Mo-eun describes what she’s feeling to Ji-yoo and it’s not simply that she feels insecure, however that she feels lonely, since they don’t share the identical world even after they’re in the identical area. She says that she all the time thought Jin-woo may very well be lonely as a result of he can’t hear, however she realized that she may very well be lonely too as a result of she may.
The half that rings loudly all through this dialog is that it’s a callback to what Search engine marketing-kyung mentioned to Jin-woo when she broke up with him. Each ladies heard issues that disturbed them — issues that Jin-woo can’t hear — and it creates a barrier between them (which explains why Search engine marketing-kyung would name his world “peaceable”).
This inner battle in Mo-eun is worrisome as a result of it seems like she may be second-guessing the connection. There’s a scene the place she imagines what it will be like if she and Jin-woo may speak and snort simply collectively if he may hear.
Close to the shut of the episodes there’s one other worrisome signal when she and Jin-woo are discussing the hyperlink between robust reminiscences and smells. They’re within the room the place he teaches and he or she smells a powerful odor of paint, after which she writes, “Sometime, someplace, after I’m alone and scent paint, I’ll bear in mind this second.” Now, that may very well be one other very cute second between these two (amongst many) or it may very well be a approach of claiming goodbye.
I don’t wish to be pessimistic, however the context of those episodes is all about reminiscence. Particularly, it’s about how completely happy moments find yourself being painful if you look again on them previously. Mo-eun begins Episode 12 by speaking about how we smile in entrance of a digital camera, solely to look again on the pictures with regret later. And I hope her moments with Jin-woo gained’t turn out to be a kind of painful reminiscences sooner or later.
Additionally, all this speak about completely happy pictures is how we study that Mo-eun’s mother just isn’t her delivery mother! She realized the key as a baby, however her mother and father don’t know she is aware of. I’m not completely positive what this implies for the bigger story, besides that Mo-eun has some stable motivation for feeling insecure about love (though the mother that raised her clearly loves her).
Mo-eun’s insecurity about Search engine marketing-kyung and Jin-woo reaches its apex as our episodes finish this week. First, we see Search engine marketing-kyung confessing to Jin-woo after his exhibition. She says she realized two issues whereas they labored collectively: 1) he’s an amazing artist and a couple of) she’s the right accomplice for him. *Gasp* What’s with all her loopy confidence?
Second, after wallowing in self-pity at Ki-hyun’s bar, Search engine marketing-kyung waltzes over to Jin-woo’s home within the pouring rain one evening. As you may guess, it’s simply as Mo-eun is arriving to see it. Mo-eun is at a distance and nobody notices her, however she sees Jin-woo’s door open as Search engine marketing-kyung steps inside. Oh brother. That is the place we’ll be selecting up subsequent week.
Poor Mo-eun! She seems crushed. And who may blame her? She’s completely in love and he or she’s simply heard that Search engine marketing-kyung nonetheless has emotions for the person she’s endlessly confessing to (there’s a stunning second when Jin-woo is washing dishes and Mo-eun walks up behind him and writes “I really like you” on his again along with her finger. Gah. It’s actually candy). And now he’s opening the door for his ex on a wet evening?! Grr.
I proceed to like this drama for a way effectively it captures the small moments. There’s a lot nuance in day-to-day actions and when our artsy leads are in the identical area simply training their crafts — close to each other however individually — I may watch all of it day. What I like much less are the not-at-all refined story moments, like the truth that Search engine marketing-kyung had a stalker after which broke up with Jin-woo, nevertheless it’s not clear if Jin-woo ever knew in regards to the stalker. I do know all these particulars are but to be revealed, but when Search engine marketing-kyung left with out filling him in, I will likely be questioning each her character and the writing.
As we kick into gear for the ultimate weeks, I’m hoping for much less excessive drama and extra quiet moments. Much less Ji-yoo and Mo-dam (who are actually formally courting) and extra of the cute highschool romance that’s taking off in Jin-woo’s artwork class. And a much less assured Search engine marketing-kyung, so we will have a extra assured Mo-eun. And positively, positively I don’t need any unhappy reminiscences of once-happy moments for our leads.
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