Love Story in Harvard

Love Story

Cast:
Kim Rae Won
Kim Tae Hee
Lee Jung Jin

Okay, the title is kind of simple, uncomplicated and direct. Another love triangle story (which, by now, ought to be expected by all Koreanovela-aficionados). The only difference is the setting which by the way, encompasses some good academic places in America (trivia: The production company of "Love Story in Harvard" couldn't get permission to film on the actual Harvard campus. Harvard is known to not allow filming on school grounds so their next best option was Southern California. Most of the filming seems to have been done in the USC area and some scenes were filmed at UCLA). The seasonal time is spring so the cinematography is quite vibrant. The actors are all a visual feast for both men and women: Kim Tae Hee, Kim Rae Won and the alluring vile character of Lee Jung Jin. It was a good story after all, despite some unresolved loopholes in the story such as "What happened to Jung Min's (Lee Jung Jin) revenge-seeking plan for Kim Hyun Woo's (Kim Rae Won) father?" There are some abrupt and quite transition-lacking moments like Hyun Woo's father succumbing to the marriage of the two lovers and even why Lee Soo In (Kim Tae Hee) chose Hyun Woo ahead of Jung Min? I still want to know what was her basis of choosing the former guy over this deliciously rich hunk, when she said from the very start that she is not interested in anyone of the two. The positive edge of the series that makes it worthy to be watched from the start until end was the aim of the story to project and tackle the core of two most respectable and remarkable professions: law and medicine.


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The three characters are all Harvard students (and eventually graduates), so the more that the story becomes as enthralling as it can be. Of course, their English was terrible. I cannot believe how they all graduated and survived Harvard and America (and the fact that Hyun Woo and Jung Min were the outstanding students in Professor Keynes' class). It was pure laugh trip. Anyhow, I think the moral of the story is good. There is sense in why this and that happened. There was this scene where a terror and mortifying professor in Harvard talked about a novel called "Utopia" which represents lawyers as insects that produce evil, it was a foreshadowing of what the story can go to as it progresses with the characters' lives. The message that the director and the script writer was trying to achieve was simple: the essence of our existence in the world. It may be in a way, a shallow interpretation of our being through knowing the purpose of our living in this world, but it was achieved in the end. I like the part where Lee Soo In was convincing Hyun Woo not to drop the case even if it means sacrificing her own life. "There is death in living, but there is also life in death." The story also gives some little (I guess if not adequate) hope for all the love-seeking creatures in the world, that there is really a genuine and unconditional love and that the world is not a hopeless place after all. I like it when Hyun Woo said to Soo In "This is the moment where we love the least. As we grow old, my love for you will have grown, too. By that time, it will be so great that we both might not even bear it." The only part of the series that I didn't like was the fairytale-like ending (which was expected from the start). Everything went good. I was expecting for some "sacrifices" and "evil" to interlude but there was none. I hope life can be easy and happy as what the story tries to project.

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