For a second, I thought KyungSeok would be duped by her innocent look so I cheered when he reasoned out that, “If you didn’t know that she had plastic surgery, then why did you ask her if she had it?” That left Soo-Ah speechless. She blamed herself for being thoughtless and guileless. Even to KyungSeok, she insisted that she had no idea of MiRae’s plastic surgery. It’s so obvious that she did!”īut Soo-Ah maintained her ignorance. Is Soo-Ah that slow?” and Soo-Ah’s friend chided her, “Hey, but why are you so slow? ‘MiRae didn’t get anything fixed either’ (she mimics Soo-Ah’s voice). The Senior girl wondered aloud, “Mirae definitely had her eyes and nose done. The next person to demonstrate clueless-ness was the pretty girl Soo-Ah.Īll the girls at the previous night’s dinner party were skeptical that she had no inkling that MiRae had undergone plastic surgery. It showed the viewers that from the start, she made her physical appearance (instead of her accomplishments, her kindness, and her relationships) the central part of her identity. I don’t know what I should adapt to.” Her confusion underscored her limited understanding of her value as a person.
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She didn’t know who she was and how to regard herself. She admitted as much, “I’m neither pretty nor ugly. On another deeper level, she lacked self-concept. It must be humiliating to be the last one in on a “general knowledge” that especially concerns her. She didn’t know that others noticed her plastic surgery while she thought she was keeping them in the dark about it. On one level, she was in a bubble of self-delusion. She didn’t even know - just as the title of this episode conveyed. Thus, the guy’s honest faux pas confirmed what the Creepy Senior bluntly told her earlier, “Gangnam is infested with girls” like her.Īs to be expected, this realization unsettled her. You see, the insinuation here was she looked familiar, NOT because she was a doppelgänger of his friend, but because her appearance was so common among women who had plastic surgery that their faces were interchangeable. Her beauty was a dime-a-dozen. He stammered an apology, “You look like someone else I know.” I’m sure this apology was sincere, but it could be misinterpreted as insulting. Take for instance the guy in the restaurant who mistook her for an acquaintance of his. They wanted to spare her feelings but, in the process, they made her look more pitiful and pathetic. But the kindness of strangers and her friends who avoided discussing the matter was also unintentionally hurtful and shameful. The Creepy Senior dumped the truth on MiRae with the intention to hurt and shame her. It’s a metaphorical elephant in the room. If not for his cruel words, she wouldn’t have known that her plastic surgery was noticeable but people around her pretended not to notice it. In a strange way, the Creepy Senior did her a service. Up until the Creepy Senior taunted her about being a Gangnam Beauty, she naively believed that her plastic surgery looked inconspicuous. Naturally, the first one to demonstrate her clueless-ness was MiRae because she was lead. It may look like everyone’s fine but they’re all enduring their hardships.” MiRae’s mother was wise to point this out to her, “Living is hard for everyone. They thought they had a clear understanding of themselves, other people and their circumstances when, in reality, no one knew the real deal beneath the “appearances.” To me, all the characters in this episode were walking in a mist of oblivion, half-truths, clueless-ness, and ignorance. Just like in the previous episode, the title introduced the theme of the show.
I guess, I should have known better than to judge a book by its cover kdrama by its young cast members. But it’s turning out to be more thoughtful and less superficial than I envisaged. I expected this kdrama to be nothing more than a fluffy teen romance with a little bit of social commentary on plastic surgery grafted on the plot. I’m pressured now to finish this because you and my good friend recommended it to me.
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