Finally, the leaves are slowly falling down. Autumn may be the hardest time for the people who have not found the true love. In addition to that, love might be the hottest issue for the young students, especially, college students. Here are two heartbreaking love stories. From these features, the new patterns of young people's love and their new way of thinking could be glimpsed.
"Do What You Want" and "Lover's Concerto"
Do What You Want : It is a popular drama that ended on September 5th, which has a large fan group. It showed the healthy figure of a youth from eliciting the everlasting love.
One day Ko Bok-su, a pickpocket, finds himself that he has a brain tumor. However, he accidently starts having a crush on a woman, Chen Kyung. But sadly enough, he already had a girlfriend, Song Mi-rae. Kyung tries to avoid her loving feelings toward Bok-su, but she can't. As the time goes by, their love towards each other becomes greater. Mi-rae figures out that he has no feelings towards her, so she slowly tries to get away from him. However, one day Mi-rae realizes that Bok-su has a brain tumor and Kyung finds out about it as well. However, the disease couldn't withhold them from the power of love. As usual, they smoothly accept the situation. Being persuaded by Kyung, Bok-su finally undergoes the operation.
Lover's Concerto : It is a movie, released on September 13th, which was successful in showing the power of pure love of the lovers of the good old days.
It starts with an unknown mail with a picture in it. Then the story goes back to the past. Ji-hwan, a working student at a cafe, falls in love at the first sight with a girl, Su-in who drops by the shop. And the following girl Kyung-hee was her best friend. In a hurry, Ji-hwan confesses his love to her, but she refuses. However, Ji-hwan doesn't want to lose this great opportunity, so he tries to be a close friend with them and afterwards, they became best friends. They spend a wonderful time which they consider as the most precious moment in their lives. As the time goes by, Ji-hwan's love slowly moves to Kyung-hee. But it doesn't turn out to be so good. It was this strange feeling that came through them. Two girls leave him with saying that he is not comfortable for them anymore. But there was secret reason that nobody could realize. Ji-hwan couldn't let go of the beautiful time they had together. After 5 years later, he searches everywhere, and he finally finds them. However, things had changed. It wasn't like the old days. He finds that Su-in died and Kyung-hee dying. The movie ends with Ji-hwan meets Kyung-hee again.
Death is a part of life
There are many things similar in these characters. The first thing is the attitudes of accepting death. From these two examples, people can see how the youngsters face the death. It shows the changes of behavior in handling the death by making the main character die at the end. In the old days, if a lover is expected to die, the partner gives up hope and tries to set everything the way it has to be. However, these features show the reaction towards death has changed.
In the drama "Do What You Want (DWYW)", the death finally turns out to be a turning point of Bok-su's life. Furthermore, he carves out the fortune. Moreover, viewers can see the strong will in the scene where he tries to be a stunt man, as far as he could move his body. He is turning the mishap into luck. This is just a one aspect of the young people's positive thinking.
It is seen in the movie "Lover's Concerto" as well. The two girls don't care about their death-dealing condition, and what's more, they enjoy their remaining life. They always smile and pretend that they are alright. No one could've realized that they had a fatal disease. People might say, young people are too weak and they have no patience than the former times. But watching this drama and the movie, these thoughts could be changed. The reason is that these reflect the way of thinking of the youths in their twenties.
Of course there is also kind of adjustment in their remaining life before the death, and the sad moments as well. But the viewer can see the conversion of the young people's attitudes of the young people towards death and the changes in the way they think.
Unusual triple love affair
The traditional patterns of love triangle show that two girls fight each other to capture the boy's heart. Is it the same in these two? Perhaps not. Both of them have gotten out of the stereotypes that two girls must fight.
In "DWYW", Mi-rae talks straight to Kyung that she doesn't like her, but it doesn't seem like the girls striving for one man's heart. They are just competitors not the enemy. Kyung even surreptitiously admires Mi-rae's dignified behavior and the strong will.
In the Lover's Concerto, two girls are friends. Therefore they care about each other and they don't really express their feelings. At this point, people can throw away the old stereo type that love triangle always involve people fighting with each other.
Different view is needed
What can people learn from here? It could be the new way of thinking and talking of the young men and women. Some seniors might say, that young people are too self-involved, and very inconsiderate towards other people. But from now on, they might need to change their thoughts because with seeing these features people could know the changes are going through the twenty's. They see the death as in the novel, "Lost and Delirious" written by Murakami Haruki, that death is not the end of one's life, but it's just a part of life. And they think of each other and give care for them. Now they are different. They are not the one in the age of information anymore who likes to be alone and knows only oneself. They love with consideration towards others and they do not take death seriously but accept that as a part of their lives. Thus, they are positive and they don't want to bruise other people's feelings.
But there is one thing that people must think twice. It will be nice if every youngsters turn out that way. Director of DWYW says this is the type of the youth these days. Is it hard to believe? Think about it.