As for suicidal Young, it didn't come as a shock to me. We knew it would be, but it hurts to see the crazed look in Jin-sungs eyes as Soo hauls himself up to eye level. When you said this, "(Seriously though. The only thing left are his boots, still propped up as if someone was standing in them. The sour gas might then be provoking hallucinations and insanity in the group. I cant understand how you couldnt even make an excuse. Can she see? Eco horror film about the advance team from an oil company finding that the Alaskan wilderness is turning against it. JS to me was a consistent character. We have seen that kind of setting before, in "The Thing" and a dozen other movies where a crew is isolated in a strange place where weird things start to happen. Maybe you can pretend her long hair is a wig, LOL. At first, I thought it might be too boring (it's the opposite of TWTWB in terms of its lack of slickness and heightened intensity), and frankly, I couldn't imagine myself getting terribly invested in most of the characters. Contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 4, "The Whole World is Watching". I just watched it tonight 13 years after the above question was posted. TWTWB was one of the few melodramas I actually completed so kudos to that. I'd rate this above "Nice Guy" but below "I Miss You". But sometimes! So many times I said "but why?" Only when hes out does he call Secretary Wang to ask her to return, because hell feel more at ease if shes there to take care of Young. "Young has a surprisingly full head of long hair a year after brain surgery, and everyone seems to be having a good time." There are pools of water on the ground nearby. I was also unhappy that Soo didn't take the money, making his con a moot point but whatever. or Are they both dead and finally meeting in the afterlife? That problem didnt exist as much with Soo, though these past few episodes didnt do him a ton of favors. FB.init({ It was supposed to have been the test drill for opening up the ANWR to oil exploration, so maybe meaningful symbolically more than a real thing. Young finally prepares for surgery, as she tells Sun-hee that shes prepared for any eventuality though it would be nice to live through the surgery. I waited for you for a long time, Young says. It's even weirder cuz 2 eps ago lawyer ahjussi was angrily throwing her out asking her if she's human and all and then hey! well probably what heads meant was that since she underwent a brain surgery, at least part of her hair had to be completely shaved prior to it being performed.. Shooting took place in both Iceland and Alaska. If anything, the aftermath made the attempt seem like a cry for attention at best, and a test of Soos loyalty at worst. I love you, very much. Soo pulls her into an embrace even as he cant help but crying, and he repeats over and over again, I love you. What's with Jin sung and Hee sun talking 'bout bringing flowers to Oh Soo? The audience has already come to learn that there is nothing beyond this point. The Last Winter (2006 film) Jump to navigation Jump to search. 2006 thriller film by Larry Fessenden. The Last Winter is a 2006 thriller film directed by Larry Fessenden. The Last Winter premiered in The Contemporary World Cinema Programme at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2006. I just enjoy the cinematography. Not Soo asks her if she cant see, and she responds by asking if hes ever met a blind person. Thanks for everything, drama! (And we don't know because we don't see anything alluding to that). The scenes are blurry because that's how Young sees the world now. The ending was so confusing. But after actually watching it, I'm 100% sure they're both alive. After a brutal duel, the Wolf realizes he only wants to fight someone I guess I understood his decision 'against' Soo ("the needs of the many blablabla blood is thicker bla") but it was so rushed that I totally did not connect on an emotional level. But a girl can dream. So much attention has been put into every character's emotions, and perhaps it was that which made the last couple of episodes lacking in spunk. This motion picture, "The Last Winter" has a feeling of doom about it right from the start. Nobody knows what happened to the cook. She takes Soos face in her hands as she adds that she has more to tell him, but itll wait until after her surgery. This was later mixed with and refined by other ideas that involved the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and global warming. I did chuckle many times reading this recap. Show! That made me think about the episode when they were up in the mountains, i recall oh soo told her that even when he's not around, every time the wind will blow will always be with her or something in this direction. Maybe it was the timing in which it happened. I did feel one thing at the end of the final episode: Thank God it is finally over! Fessenden brought in co-writer Robert Leaver to collaborate with, and the two went back and forth on various ideas. It looked blurry because Young's sight wasn't perfect, but just enough for her to make things out. *cries*. What a waste! I had watched NG but do not remember how the drama ended but I will remember every details about TWTWB. [11] In describing it as a traditional Gothic horror story, Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "accomplishes with a modest budget and a talented cast what bigger, slicker, gorier contemporary horror movies rarely do". The script for the film originally featured a more woodsy Alaska with pine trees and it was after a research trip to Prudhoe Bay that they discovered the harsh flat conditions that Song Hye Gyo also said in the interview that the ending scene filmed in Young's perspective was blurry because they didn't want to give RP patients false hope, since those diagnosed with RP will not ever regain back their sight fully. Youngs eyes begin to fill with tears as Soo pours his heart out in the video, saying how much he wanted to tell her when he first fell in love with her and how beautiful she was, and how much her real brother loved her. About the ending, while watching the last episode, i really had the impression oh soo died. So is she over the suicide thing? (Like Lost!, And especially because all the scenes were blurry. The last winter is a movie that starts up promising with an oil field expedition in the arctic plains. All rights reserved worldwide. Who, out of the two of them, showed more human compassion? ), but he stays on the phone with Mi-ra to get updates on Youngs surgery. What would be the point of having that conversation of how Soo told Wang to not tell Young about his whereabouts until she was done chemo? fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); A group of people located at a work station in the artic are the first to bear witness to the end of the world. I watched the last episode of Queen of Ambition yesterday. But then she adds that if she lives through her surgery, theyll meet again, and finally talk out their issues. 3/10 for a good cast trying to save this movie. In the end, the suicide attempt didnt even put her out for a night, and she was completely fine by morning. Jin-sung Why? Soo ekes out, but his next words go to Young: Wait for me. Then he struggles to get up in order to go to her, though he can barely stand. It's photographed beautifully and (by and large) acted with conviction and sensitivity. Jin-sung arrives in the meantime so Boss Man can declare him Soos gambling partner, and all of Soos huffing and puffing cant reverse the situation now. This vagued up messy ending was the compromise. Nor are the ladies & gentlemen of the castle as aristocratic as they believe they are. Native Alaskan worker Lee vanishes without a trace the next morning; the sound of hooves, the same sound which occurred prior to each appearance of the ghostly caribou, is heard. Some power that be wanted a happy to make viewers happy. The ending scene is that of the only surviving researcher, Abby Sellers, waking up alone in a deserted hospital with no recollection of arriving there. But it could be Minions shady-lookin dude guarding them, which means its a good thing. The few action scenes are hard and fast and have more of an impact if they had been wall to wall from start to finish. I know, hard to believe. Ah, so maybe shes making plans for the future since she wants to have a future now. These flowers symbolize happines, wedding, and love. The result is confused audience. When members of a remote Arctic drilling site begin behaving oddly and show signs they're potentially going insane, the few unaffected workers try to get the others to safety before they come face-to-face with the source of their condition. We dont hear or see it, but the look on Jin-sungs face seems to tell us that the truck plowed into his familys car. It was amazing because it is not really easy to write an open ended story and with so much twists. After shes gone, Soo lets this news sink in. NHK stay true to the japanese drama, so the stabbing scene is actually in the jdrma version too, so I don't think they just copied nice guy, maybe it's the other way around. (Seriously! - I really praised the writer for having this kind of story. But in the end, it became just another k-melo that lost its footing, yet garnered tons of attention anyway. 7. Thank you all, and thank you HeadsNo2 for your recaps. And there's no way the afterlife's that cruel. DUDE. Thank you so much for the recap! I think Soo is gonna be on my list of favorite characters. AVOID IT ! My take: Soo died. It may not have helped that I saw it on the Horror Channel, which I only flick through out of boredom! This is how she matured and transformed. Regardless, though, I still can't help but feel lightheaded and drunk from all the prettiness between SHK and JIS in the "1 year later" scenes. As with all isolation movies, there is a profound sense of eeriness, and there are particular things (such as the box from the previous expedition, and a strange log book) which, I thought, were going to be good set ups for more mystery further on in the story. Oooh, a twist! As far as stabbing goes guns are really hard to get in Korea so stabbing's the best way to kill someone. If you're on the edge of deciding whether to watch this or not, I'd say find it for free since you won't listen to a reviews on here wishing away your curiosity. Soo chaotic and rushed and nonsensical. Young goes to a cafe to wait, and we see Soos tree painting hanging on the wall, completed. After waking up from what seems to have been a nightmare, composed of the whole duration of the film, she looks for others. By Shane O'Neill / April 9, 2021 8:39 am EST. It was, however, executed very poorly imo. As if to answer her request for them to be able to talk once she wakes up, Soo kisses her. And then i realized, she was only recuperating possibly and thus through her eyes, things are still blurry. But I guess in the end, what's important is that they both reconciled and expressed their love to each other and whether they really lived or died didn't matter to me. I will have to agree to disagree on the ending. Soo nearly drops in relief when he finds Young, even as she emotionlessly tells him shes hungry. I am not wedded to reality, because, hey, it's TV. Engaging and creepy and also plot less and pointless. I've watched it happen in quite a few dramas. 2 eps later, all's forgiven! There's a gangster figure who seemed really mean, but who is actually a bit of a softie. I don't know. Slowly, and then with sweeping speed, members of this community start brutally dying, as a creature of environmental collapse bares its razor-sharp teeth. I applaud his professionalism, knowing that this is his first time to have sex scenes. She was slowly recovering her vision. It took me two watches to finally come around and give this movie credit where it was due. Either way I guess its a happy ending that they are together! Okay, nothing much to say here that hasn't already been said by all the other good reviewers on here. i can't believe that is finished now.best best drama i have ever seem and it's the best drama of 2013. Theres a light at the end of every drama tunnel, but sometimes its how we get there that matters more than how bright that light turns out to be. Please click the link in that email to complete the email change process. But its time to let bygones be bygones and say farewell to Winter. In the meantime, Young gets wheeled in for surgery. But they crammed it into like a freaking two-minutes-reactionif that. So that combined with JS having to suffer watching hee Sun run thru flirtations equals he's paying his betrayal dues so hello they are dead too. The first eight episodes were executed close to perfection imo but I didn't really mind the change in pace afterwards. It is the reason why she is such an important person to be sent from one side of the country to another by the Fireflies, as she might play a key role in developing a cure for the infection. I haven't seen NHK's previous works, so thanks for sharing your insightful thoughts. The vaunted cinematography of this drama may appear genuinely impressive at first, but it dawns upon you sooner or later that, however it wants to emulate it, this is not a Merchant-Ivory film. Cant we get some blunt force trauma up in here to change things up? A single broken vile of urine, yellowing the cold tile. Even for wearing that maroon suit and pants at ep16! Connect with Facebook do they look unreal? Thank you to the commenters, too. I still don't get this drama. Even if you didnt take the money, it wont bring everything back to the way it was.. It's not like she's an emotionally stable person thinking through exactly how this will effect the people around her. The promise of sizzle from early on in the show fizzled out too. The blurry images say no. It's not an explanation for anything, but it's a thought. I did share and understood your (and others') frustrations of the characters. [8], Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 76% of 50 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.7/10. Im a huge fan of love me not - the movie, and for me, twtwb was the perfect adaptation, im sure no other producer could have made it better. and because JIS's acting is so AMAZING - Soo looks so dead there to me! He acted well but he still not converting me as one of his fans. The beginning was wonderful, but it definitely lost steam and direction toward the end. Also, Heads! (Just enough to pay Soos debt.) Because she chatted and interacted with him. She did do the across-wrist cut. Why did he have to go stab Soo? Why wouldnt I want to love her when I started out that way?) As things progress from bad to worse each succumbs to their own belief with wild and unpredictable results. Lawyer Jang tries to get Soo to take the money on Youngs behalf, since it would make her feel better. But that's really the only thing I wonder. Soo. Now that i know there's a happy ending TIME TO WATCH!! Which might be realistic. 6. It's the memory of those far superior movies that make this one watchable at first. Just Abby in an open room. But more than anything, i belive the writers left an open ending on pourpose, they wanted to allow the viewers to come up with their own interpretation of the ending. Another BIG factor as to why the last scene is not a depiction of heaven, or Young's imagination, is because the conversation between Soo and Young in that cafe is waaay too elaborate to be fake. Joel and Sarah get separated from Tommy shortly after they recover. }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Theres a light at the end of every drama tunnel, but sometimes its how we get there that matters more than how bright that light turns out to be. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { That said, I've never had a brain tumor killing me. It did difficult to play blind person who has to display lots of deep scars and emotion. (Wangs actions to put her in that initial state got a pass from the magical script fairy too, since the drama made sense of her behavior toward Young the way an abusive person justifies their actions: I hurt you because I love you! And thats somehow okay, enough for everyone to realize that they were sooo wrong about Wang, and that she was really the best caretaker Young could ask for? The ground nearby Last episode of Queen of Ambition yesterday superior movies that make this one watchable at first into. 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