Inform Me That You Love Me: Episodes 13-14
by Dramaddictally
Can love conquer all when the variations between companions are huge? It’s the query our drama started with, and the query we return to now. Damage emotions, household secrets and techniques, and romantic interlopers abound this week because the previous involves the fore. However there’s one thing extra under-the-radar intervening in our leads’ love story.
EPISODES 13-14
One factor I actually love about this drama is that it’s stuffed with sophisticated emotions. There’s no good and evil right here, simply folks that have lived, harm, and realized. Typically they’re extra guarded (like our hero) and typically they’re studying to be extra weak, which is what we see of Search engine optimization-kyung this week.
We left off final week with a stab within the coronary heart as Jin-woo opened the door to Search engine optimization-kyung on a wet night time. Mo-eun drags herself away from the scene in apparent ache — and now we witness the aftermath.
To start, let’s soar into the backstory concerning the fireplace, since we lastly get all the small print. Search engine optimization-kyung was being adopted round by a looney stalker, who assaults her within the arts school constructing and by chance units fireplace to the place whereas she’s attempting to interrupt free. She’s knocked out and he leaves her there to die.
Jin-woo smells the smoke and goes searching for Search engine optimization-kyung as the hearth will get larger. Search engine optimization-kyung wakes up and sees him exterior the room she’s in, however he doesn’t see her. She’s screaming his identify (in useless, in fact) and he runs within the different path to maintain looking for her.
We later be taught that Jin-woo by no means finds her, and Do-hun is the one which pulls her out and saves her life. Now, final week it appeared like Do-hun was the man stalking Search engine optimization-kyung. Because it seems, he’s simply one other obsessive weirdo who was in love together with her and was secretly following her round to guard her from her stalker (received all that?). And as he’s carrying her out of the hearth, he sees Jin-woo run additional into the constructing to seek out Search engine optimization-kyung, however has no method to cease him. Jin-woo finally ends up needing to be rescued and will get a nasty burn on his arm.
So, what does all this imply for his or her present-day emotions? Nicely, it’s pleasantly sophisticated. The story goes that Search engine optimization-kyung broke up with Jin-woo after this incident as a result of she thought Jin-woo deserted her that day. That is what Jin-woo has believed all these years. She hated and resented him, and he hated and resented himself.
The reality comes out later when Search engine optimization-kyung lastly admits to Do-hun, and to herself, that she knew Jin-woo was searching for her that day. When she runs into Jin-woo on the street proper after her dialog with Do-hun, she tells him she was mendacity to herself again then and searching for a purpose to run away. She stored telling herself he’d deserted her as a result of it appeared like the one method to depart. She by no means instructed Jin-woo concerning the whistling stalker, and she or he needed to interrupt up as a result of the truth that she may hear and he couldn’t made her really feel alone within the relationship.
Search engine optimization-kyung tearfully tells Jin-woo to not blame himself anymore. Then she apologizes and walks away. Jin-woo, crushed and offended as he’s to be taught all this, understands that she will need to have been coping with so much on her personal. And since we realized final week that Mo-eun is feeling lonely for comparable causes, I hope this implies our hero can put this new info to make use of.
This entire thread performs out over the course of the 2 episodes and it serves a few functions. First, we see Search engine optimization-kyung admit that she’s been overconfident earlier than she comes clear concerning the previous. Once we met her, she appeared good and like an excellent particular person, and it’s in step with her character to be this self-reflexive. I used to be pleased to see the drama pull her again round from what we noticed final week.
That being mentioned, the second factor all this does is to get in between Mo-eun and Jin-woo. Within the opening scene, the place a rain-soaked Search engine optimization-kyung is at Jin-woo’s home, she says she misses him so much. At first we don’t see Jin-woo’s response. However the ache that emanates from each Search engine optimization-kyung and Jin-woo any time they’re collectively says they nonetheless have deep emotions for one another — simply not the type they need to pursue.
Nonetheless, holding off on Jin-woo’s response for a bit permits us to get into Mo-eun’s head and really feel all of the insecurity that she’s feeling. After she leaves Jin-woo’s door, she goes residence in a daze and sits awake all night time. Jin-woo doesn’t see her textual content till after Search engine optimization-kyung leaves, after which he texts her proper again. However she doesn’t reply.
The following day, Jin-woo goes to go to his greatest pal/neighborhood bartender, Ki-hyun, who tells Jin-woo to smart up somewhat. Mo-eun got here to see Ki-hyun a couple of days earlier than, asking questions on Jin-woo’s prior love life, and he advises Jin-woo to verify Mo-eun doesn’t fear. “Inform her as a lot as attainable about your self. It’s actually upsetting to listen to concerning the particular person you like by way of different folks.” He doesn’t need Mo-eun to begin considering, “Am I the one one which didn’t know? Am I not that essential to him?” (Wow. Easy recommendation that’s price repeating.)
Jin-woo and Mo-eun meet up later and he begins apologizing for texting her again so late, as if that’s the massive situation between them. Mo-eun is the one which has to inform him what she noticed, as a substitute of him popping out with it (and man do I really feel her ache on this second). Jin-woo apologizes for not telling her beforehand. He was fallacious, he ought to have instructed her from the beginning.
Honest sufficient. However then he takes a fallacious flip when he begins defending himself. “I didn’t know she was coming. She was standing within the rain.” Blah, blah. (Come on, Jin-woo! You are able to do higher than this!) But it surely’s worse as a result of Mo-eun, who’s been crying by way of this entire factor, can’t perceive all of what he’s signing. He desires to elucidate himself, however she tells him it’ll need to be later. (One other nice job with the writing right here. Mo-eun is sincere and courageous by way of and thru, and I’m pleased to see her character doesn’t waver.)
We proceed to see Mo-eun query the connection, as we began to see final week. When she talks to Ji-yoo, she notes that, to start with, when she didn’t know signal language and couldn’t perceive what Jin-woo mentioned, she felt like she understood him. Now that she is aware of extra signal language, she seems like she understands him much less. “I do know much more phrases now. Why is it getting tougher to speak to him?” (I really like that this query goes unanswered as meals for thought.)
The following time Mo-eun goes to Jin-woo’s home, he apologizes once more — after which empathizes by saying he by no means would have been in a position to perceive the state of affairs both. (That’s higher.) Mo-eun follows with an excellent query: “She got here late at night time, drenched with rain — are there nonetheless such essential issues to debate between you two?”
He shakes his head no, after which writes (so it’s clear), “Since I met you, I’m actually pleased. I nonetheless have the scar I received again then, however that’s it. And I’ll by no means let that scar make you unhappy and have a tough time. I’m so sorry.” He takes her hand. She smiles. They usually’re again.
However the waters have been disturbed and it’s not really easy to calm them. Mo-eun begins taking pictures the brand new drama she landed, and she or he and Jo-han are spending quite a lot of time collectively as he teaches her guitar for her position. At one level, she begins to cry. She says it’s as a result of she feels so comfy there with Jo-han, laughing, joking, and enjoying music so simply. She’s afraid that the particular moments with Jin-woo will sometime really feel uncomfortable.
On the day that Search engine optimization-kyung meets Jin-woo on the street and tells him the reality about why she broke up with him in school, Mo-eun additionally occurs to see them. So, after every part Jin-woo mentioned about not hurting her, it appears to be like to Mo-eun like a replay of the opposite night time.
Mo-eun contacts Search engine optimization-kyung so the 2 can meet, and Search engine optimization-kyung apologizes, saying she didn’t imply to make Mo-eun uncomfortable. She desires Jin-woo to succeed as a painter. Mo-eun takes the assertive girlfriend position and responds that she understands the painter-curator relationship, however Jin-woo has her by his aspect now. (That’s the boldness I used to be ready for.)
Afterward, Search engine optimization-kyung thinks again to the second that she instructed Jin-woo she misses him, and we lastly see his response. “I would by no means be capable to love anybody as a lot as I liked you way back. As a result of the outdated me, who liked with out being afraid that it might finish, doesn’t exist anymore. I might not be as passionate as I used to be again then, however I do have somebody I really like with all my coronary heart now.” Thanks! Perhaps Jin-woo missed the boat on telling Mo-eun the reality when she wanted it, however he’s sincere when it issues most. Now he simply has to say these phrases to our heroine.
So, with the Search engine optimization-kyung story shifting into the background, we finish our episodes with a more recent thread. Final week, we noticed a lady crying in entrance of Jin-woo’s exhibition — and it was fairly clear this lady was going to be revealed as Jin-woo’s mom. This week, it’s confirmed. She has dementia however nonetheless remembers the home she lived in all these years in the past when Jin-woo was born.
Mo-eun learns the lady’s identification, takes a visit to Busan, finds the home, and sends a pic to Jin-woo. He’s seen the home earlier than, within the lone picture he has of himself as a child. We finish with our hero evaluating the images, and setting us up for some household reunions subsequent week.
Wow, I liked these episodes. And I can’t imagine I received every part I requested for final week. Search engine optimization-kyung’s confidence was toned down and Mo-eun’s was kicked up. There have been zero scenes of Mo-dam and Ji-yoo — however we did get extra of the lovable highschool college students in Jin-woo’s artwork class. Can they’ve their very own drama, please? And the nuanced writing has been a stunning fixed. In essence, this can be a easy story, however that’s why it really works so properly. It takes easy, relatable themes and digs deep into them.
Whereas the household stuff might be fascinating within the ultimate week, the half that has me on edge is how Mo-eun will resolve her blended emotions. She and Jin-woo love one another. But it surely’s within the drama’s DNA that love isn’t sufficient — we all know this due to how issues ended with Jin-woo and Search engine optimization-kyung. Will the connection be too laborious, prefer it was for Search engine optimization-kyung? Or will they discover a method to bridge their variations, like Ki-hyun and So-hee? I believe it relies on how a lot work they’re each keen to place into it, and the way comfy Mo-eun can get with being uncomfortable.
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