Inform Me That You Love Me: Episodes 15-16 (Last)
by Dramaddictally
With an ending this courageous, I’m prepared to inform this drama that I find it irresistible. Stuffed with gratitude, development, and grieving, our leads discover themselves removed from the place they began, even when it appears like they’re again at sq. one.
EPISODES 15-16
It’s the quiet ones that’ll get ya. This has been a gradual and deliberate journey that advised us its ending in its very first traces, however that doesn’t make it harm any much less. Just like the characters themselves, we went in with a hunch that the connection wouldn’t work out, however we let ourselves really feel deeply anyway — solely to stroll away heartbroken.
We open this week with the concept of house. Mo-eun has situated Jin-woo’s childhood home, which he’s looked for his complete life, and when he meets her there, he realizes that his want to seek out it was actually a hope that somebody can be ready for him when he arrived (*coronary heart cracks in half*).
They sit by a campfire exterior the home and Mo-eun tells Jin-woo about his mom. He’s in shock and isn’t positive if he desires to fulfill her and disrupt her life. Mo-eun advises him to comply with his coronary heart, earlier than she begins pouring out her personal coronary heart.
She tells Jin-woo in regards to the dream she had — the one the place they had been laughing and speaking simply collectively and he or she felt so comfy. She recounts how in actual life, issues received harder for her as their relationship went on. Together with her poor signal language, she couldn’t convey her emotions exactly, and he or she didn’t need to argue over textual content, so she ignored him. She apologizes, after which so does he “for making her have that form of dream.” Mo-eun concludes, “We’re not collectively to really feel sorry for one another.” Oof. What a robust punch of dialogue to finish such a prolonged dialog about why it’s not working.
However irrespective of how a lot ache their relationship seems to trigger Mo-eun, she desires to maintain preventing for it. Afterward, she goes to Jin-woo’s home and says that every one the methods they’ve needed to talk (writing, signing, translating, utilizing their fingers on one another’s palms) have been a bit of troublesome, however she’s okay. She tells him this with finality, as if to place him comfortable.
However we will see she’s something however comfortable. She’s dissatisfied when she will be able to’t yell over to him on the grocery retailer. There’s no exuberance when she interacts with him, like there may be with others. And at one level, she tells him to activate some music, which he does, after which she instantly shuts it off behind his again with out speaking something to him.
Then comes a horribly heart-shattering second. Our leads are mendacity in mattress with their backs to one another and issues are clearly tense between them. Jin-woo opens the translator on his telephone with out Mo-eun noticing and begins typing, “Lets discuss?” However earlier than he finishes, she says out loud to herself, “It’s so irritating.” And that line seems on the display screen of his translator app for him to learn. (This second bodily harm me. Youch.)
After Jin-woo is aware of how Mo-eun actually feels, he places the telephone down and simply lies there, however they meet the subsequent day so he can do what must be achieved. Fairly than persevering with to be sorry to at least one one other, he ends issues by thanking her. He thanks her for approaching him when he didn’t have the braveness to like once more. And says it’s because of her that he thinks he’ll be okay for the remainder of his life. “If I did one thing that made you unhappy, it wasn’t as a result of I didn’t love you, however as a result of I wished to cover what I used to be ashamed of.”
Mo-eun is sobbing and, at first, I assumed it was due to the content material of his phrases. However when he stops signing, she cries that she will be able to’t perceive. So, he simply finishes with this: “Thanks for attempting so onerous for me.”
As he walks away from her, Mo-eun understands that it will need to have been onerous on him too. “Although he thanked me for the efforts I made for him, I’ve been a coward.” Later, as the 2 are individually pondering again on one another, she remembers Jin-woo telling her, proper at first, that they weren’t match and that she ought to discover somebody higher fitted to her.
Oh my, the themes this drama is pushing up. There’s a second early within the episodes when Mo-dam asks, “Why is their relationship so painful?” (that means Mo-eun and Jin-woo). And it’s an important query as a result of there’s nothing outwardly improper. However after we see flashbacks of once they first met and began liking one another, it’s clear how effectively developed the story is.
Their starting is so pure and plausible, after which their descent into an unnamable form of discomfort is so insidious. There’s nothing monumental that received them so far. All of the day-to-day life stuff — all of the stuff I used to be begging to see of their romance — can be the stuff that chipped away at Mo-eun. It’s not Website positioning-kyung, and even jealousy, that finally intervened. It’s their variations. They care about one another, however the hole in how they need (or are ready) to reside their lives is just too nice.
Whereas Mo-eun is tending to her damaged coronary heart, Jo-han is there to consolation her, as he at all times is. She tells him that in some unspecified time in the future, she began to need issues from Jin-woo that he couldn’t do for her. She feels unhealthy about feeling lonely. However Jo-han responds that there will need to have been a motive she was lonely, and likewise, it was her first time loving Jin-woo, so she didn’t know methods to do it. (What a good way to have a look at it.)
He’s talking from his personal experiences, secretly loving Mo-eun, and he tells her to not blame herself. Mo-eun desires the identical for Jo-han. She feels grateful to him, however she desires him to seek out somebody that doesn’t make him really feel lonely. “I hope you meet somebody who sees you, understands you, and loves you. Don’t strive too onerous or endure.” This can be a powerful second, however I’m glad she’s kindly telling him to maneuver on. He turned out to be a very nice pal to her, by no means getting in her manner and supporting her at each step.
In different resolutions, Website positioning-kyung and Jin-woo have a second the place they lastly let one another go. Website positioning-kyung acknowledges that perhaps she misses the previous greater than Jin-woo himself, and we get this beautiful little quip: “Our time aside was like a diary to compensate for. Even when we attempt to write one thing for the missed days, we’re not the previous us anymore. Our time has handed.” (So true!)
In a really temporary encounter, Jin-woo goes to fulfill his mom. Nonetheless stuffed with gratitude, he thanks her for liking his work a lot, although her situation makes it in order that she doesn’t know what’s occurring. She touches his face and says he appears a lot like her son. And Jin-woo is sobbing.
And in one other spherical of thank yous, Mo-eun visits her mother and divulges that she is aware of that she’s not her delivery mom. She desires to say thanks for selecting her, however Mother counters that Mo-eun is the one which selected her.
Then we’re off to a one-year time skip, the place our leads hearts have had time to heal. Mo-eun has landed the main function in a play (the one we noticed her carry out in earlier as an understudy). And Ji-yoo has adopted Mo-eun’s instance to reside out her desires by opening a café the place individuals go to color. On the café, Mo-eun recollects the time she advised Jin-woo that sooner or later she’d scent paint and consider their second collectively. She smiles, but in addition begins to cry. (Nicely, we knew this reminiscence was coming.)
Jin-woo returns to Korea after a 12 months overseas and reunites along with his former artwork college students. (The inside track is: Tae-ho is aware of signal language now and is full-on courting his classmate, in order that’s cute.) As a present, the scholars give Jin-woo a ticket to a play, the place the theater does simultaneous translation in signal language. In fact, it’s Mo-eun’s play.
Jin-woo attends and our leads see one another earlier than Mo-eun’s efficiency however they don’t work together. When she will get out on stage, she appears for him within the viewers. Then she begins the monologue that we heard within the opening traces of the drama.
Can the truth that we’re so totally different be the rationale? I imply, no two individuals on the planet are fully the identical. If an individual with one arm falls in love with one other particular person with one arm, wouldn’t it be okay? Individuals say they’ll quickly begin to hate and resent one another. However I’m not so positive.
High quality. Let’s say it’s true. Then, wouldn’t or not it’s okay to remain collectively till they begin to hate one another? Wouldn’t or not it’s okay to offer it your all till you begin to hate all the pieces? Even when your love will not be the identical in form and measurement — even when it is probably not truthful — wouldn’t or not it’s okay for us to like till then?
They’re the traces of the play, however she’s saying them on to Jin-woo, and he’s taking them personally. They each have tears of their eyes.
After the efficiency, she runs exterior to seek out him. He reintroduces himself, they smile, after which they stroll towards one another. The scene cuts and the ultimate credit score shot has them strolling down a prepare observe within the spot the place they broke up. They’re holding fingers, and once they get a distance away, we hear Jin-woo narrate, “I really like you, Mo-eun.” Is it a reminiscence? The long run? Or an imagined future that may by no means be? I consider it’s the third one — the completely satisfied life they envisioned collectively, however that simply can’t come to go.
Kudos to this drama for keepin’ it actual. I’m not aware of the unique Japanese model of this story from the Nineteen Nineties, however the writing on this remake is great. I really like that all the pieces we have to know in regards to the ending is within the first episode, and but, we sustain hope. Speak about a option to put the viewers within the footwear of your characters.
And the route traces up completely with the writing. This can be a very dialogue-driven drama, however a lot of the dialogue is written or signed. Lengthy conversational exchanges type the principle scenes and it’s spectacular that it’s nonetheless tense and thrilling simply to observe individuals write. The emotion is uncooked and at all times on the entrance. And the interactions are lifelike and pure — particularly when the leads have difficulties between them. A lot of that additionally owes to the performances, particularly Jung Woo-sung who conveys all the pieces along with his face. For a narrative about miscommunication, or lack of communication, a lot is communicated within the smallest particulars.
The bigger themes left me with rather a lot to consider too as a result of, on the finish of the day, that is story about distinction. We now have a personality who can’t hear and one other who can — they usually have a selected set of issues — however their troubles are broad and may be utilized to all types of relationships. Variations in tradition, persona, worldview (no matter) can all get in the way in which of simply attempting to like one another. So, is there a threshold for a way large these variations may be if a relationship goes to work? Or is it largely about every associate’s disposition?
I really like that the drama gave us each angles. On one hand, we noticed how issues performed out with Website positioning-kyung and Jin-woo again within the day, and on the opposite, we noticed how Ki-hyun and So-hee negotiated their relationship. Website positioning-kyung’s character might be seen as a form of foreshadowing for what was to return with Jin-woo and Mo-eun, however mockingly, it’s as a result of Jin-woo grew from his first relationship that he lets Mo-eun go. The tragedy right here is that they break up as a result of they do love one another, not as a result of they don’t.
The large query the drama poses is: is it okay to offer it your all if you understand it’s going to trigger you a variety of heartache? And it solutions within the affirmative. Progress is within the course of, not the result. And our leads had an important love story, even when it didn’t final.
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