He tells her that he won’t save her if she pulls this stunt again, and leaves her on the shore to cry. Beneath the surface of the water it looks like Bok-gu grabs Eun-seok, but when he emerges, it’s with the girl in the red dress.īok-gu’s saved the Girl In Red’s life, though that doesn’t mean he has to be happy about it. She dives into the water at the same time as Bok-gu dives into the water wherever he is, and the scenes are intercut to make it seem like they’re swimming toward each other. I love this little moment where her manager, CHOI MI-SEON ( Kang Rae-yeon), stops someone from retrieving Eun-seok with a shake of her head as if to say: Girl be crazy. It turns out she’s an actress, but it doesn’t seem like she understands the word “cut” since she keeps heading straight into the water. She begins to walk into the water as a director yells “Cut!”, and we soon realize that we’re watching a show within a show. We cut back to Eun-seok, who’s crying out for her oppa on a beach. He just keeps walking afterward, but maybe some part of his conscience niggles at him, and he jumps in after her. Instead, he tells her to go ahead and jump off. “Say, ‘If you wait for me, I’ll love you.’ Please say that to me,” she begs. He continually acts dismissive despite her plethora of sorrows. The first thing he tells a girl about to commit suicide? That if she was going to show her panties to all the guys standing below, she could at least pull her skirt up to give them a better show. Suddenly, though, we see him sauntering toward her with a lollipop in his mouth and a vicious dose of apathy on his face.
From that far distance they can recognize the woman as a banker’s daughter who suffered Bok-gu’s rejection.īok-gu, too cool for school, ignores the problem even as the girl in red sheds tears. He hurries to find Bok-gu (calling him ‘Dog’ Bok-gu) and alert him to the situation. One of them is startled to see a woman in a red dress poised at the top of the nearby bridge, looking as though she’s ready to jump. Now we get the official(?) start to the episode, as Bok-gu’s friends are having a party near the river. (That’s deep.) He closes his eyes, and a tear falls down his cheek. It’s like they’re reaching toward each other.
She’s CHA EUN-SEOK ( Shin Mina), and she opens her eyes and reaches out her hand toward the camera while Bok-gu does the same. Our anti-hero hero, KANG BOK-GU ( Rain!) lies alone in a grassy field while our heroine lies – wait for it – alone on a beach, the waves crashing softly around her. Two people in two different places reach for each other across space and time, with the scenes intercut to give us the idea that a metaphysical tie already exists between them. Sometimes you just can’t help what you love. But we all have those dramas that hold a special place in our heart for whatever reason (Rain, The Gateway Drug), and A Love To Kill is one of mine. It’s a lot of cliches rolled into one and it’s certainly not a lot of things – like very good, for instance. There’s no use trying to fool anyone that this show isn’t a melodramatic bedlam that mostly skews ridiculous. I’m not joking about those titles, but I’m holding out hope that KBS was. So here we have it, a first episode recap of 2005’s A Love to Kill (also known as This Cursed Love, aka This Love I Want to Kill, aka The Love of Death, aka Detestable Love, aka Knock Out By Love).
136 MaJanuA Love to Kill: Episode 1 by HeadsNo2Īfter discussing Rain’s post-vomit lizard kisses in the latest podcast, this blast from the past was just a matter of time.
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