Are monsters born or are they created?
White Christmas, written by Park Yeon-Seon who also wrote the ever so lacking Wild Romance, is a psychological study in trying to answer whether the people society deem as monsters are born already being monsters or if they are created through a series of events in their lives. It is a different breed of Kdrama, and an exciting one.
The story starts off on Christmas Eve when the school is emptied out save for seven(plus one) students and a teacher who have stayed behind to spend the winter holiday in the school after each of them received a letter with a cryptic message on it. The letter taunted them about past sins against a fellow student.
The seven of them are joined by elmo haired Kang Mi Reu or Mad Mi Reu, played by Woo Bin and I'm not kidding about the elmo hair.
Doctor Kim Yo Han joins the party after he is involved in a car accident and is forced to seek shelter from the snow at the school. For the bulk of the drama these nine people are the players in an experiment that sets out to prove everyone has a monster inside them and under the right circumstances we are capable of monstrous actions. It is a journey that is portrayed beautifully in this drama. The drama itself looks beautiful from the snow covered landscape, to the school, to the students; the fact that it deals with evil makes the beauty starkly stand out.
I loved this drama mostly because it was so different than the usual drama that I watch, but also because it had no unnecessary moments. At eight episodes every episode was important and added to the whole. The only gripe I had about the drama was the incompetence of the police only the last episode and didn't detract from the overall greatness of the drama.
Are monster born or are the created? The drama answers the question, but sometimes the answer isn't the one we want.
The story starts off on Christmas Eve when the school is emptied out save for seven(plus one) students and a teacher who have stayed behind to spend the winter holiday in the school after each of them received a letter with a cryptic message on it. The letter taunted them about past sins against a fellow student.
The seven of them are joined by elmo haired Kang Mi Reu or Mad Mi Reu, played by Woo Bin and I'm not kidding about the elmo hair.
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| Doctor Kim ... up to no good. |
I loved this drama mostly because it was so different than the usual drama that I watch, but also because it had no unnecessary moments. At eight episodes every episode was important and added to the whole. The only gripe I had about the drama was the incompetence of the police only the last episode and didn't detract from the overall greatness of the drama.
Are monster born or are the created? The drama answers the question, but sometimes the answer isn't the one we want.
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