Because This is My First Life

This is one of my favorite drama last year. Drama bergenre romance comedy ini sungguh absurd and pleasing at the same time. Ceritanya sederhana seputar keseharian, tapi menyuguhkan sudut pandang yang berbeda tentang karir, relationships, dan marriage. Sinematografinya pun apik.

Drama ini bercerita tentang Nam Se-hee (Lee Min-ki) dan Yoon Ji-ho (Jung So-min). Awalnya mereka housemates, tetiba married dengan alasan yang mungkin sulit dicerna sebagian orang, yang satu house-poor perlu tambahan pendapatan untuk cicilan rumah, yang satu homeless ingin punya tempat tinggal. Hutang rumah Se-hee baru lunas 30 tahun kemudian, tepatnya tahun 2048, itu pun dengan tambahan bayaran dari house tenant.

Kebanyakan dialog first lead male di sini dibuat datar, jadi lebih banyak main di ekspresi. Termasuk ketika proposed. He just asked, as if a daily conversation. Wkwkk. "If you have sometime..."

After that epic proposal, they decided to married. Mereka berencana memangkas acara yang paling memakan biaya, yakni upacara pernikahan. Namun, orang tua mereka keberatan. Alhasil, diadakanlah pernikahan dengan budget sehemat mungkin, misalnya sengaja memilih hari senin, hari ketika biaya penyewaan tempat paling murah :v

Well, marriage indeed, tidak hanya menyatukan dua manusia, tapi dua keluarga. We need to compromise each family. Scene paling menyentuh, when Se-hee promises Ji-ho's Mom that he won’t block her path to happiness. He apologizes for not being able to promise something grander, but Mom thinks his honest words are much better than empty phrases.

He seems responsible kan ya. Yet, kelakuannya ada yang hilarious juga, misal menulis diary di excel. Bisa ditiru tuh, barangkali buat memahami pasangan lebih jauh, sekalian bikin analisis S.W.O.T :v

 

 

  He can get emotionaly too.

He can be wise too.

Seiring berjalannya waktu, karakter-karakter lain pun ikut berkembang. Selain the "calculating couple", Ji-ho and Se-hee, there are the "true to instincts couple", Woo Soo-ji (Lee Som) and Ma Sang-gu (Park Byung-eun); and the “7 years strong couple”, Yang Ho-rang (Kim Ga-eun) and Shin Won-suk (Kim Min-suk).

"More than tolerating others, I thought it would be better to be alone"

"It’s easier to be crazy than to explain something that people can’t understand"

Everyone has their own room 19. It's okay to be different. It's okay to cry. Life may be difficult. Howefer, there’s still a hope we keep inside that it would get better. We keep on living with that hope in our hearts even when changes seem like a lifetime away.

"There's no such thing that's fundamentally based on happiness, except marriage" - Goethe

There are so many things that will make you mesmerized when watching this drama. Plot, characters, cinematography. Check it out by yourself.

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