Sandglass and a Film

The Untouchables - directed by Brian De Palma (1987)
This second viewing was not as good as the first one. And I don't think it is because I knew what was coming. The suspense was all there at the famous baseball bat scene after all and I admired the stairs scene even more this time. But as a whole the film didn't feel as sincere and the acting, from all parties, didn't feel as good. One of the few distadvantages of having watched too many films reared its ugly head in this viewing. Well at least I was not bored so it is not a totall loss.
Meanwhile I have finished three episodes of Sandglass yesterday and I'm still not 'feeling' this drama. This is partly because I can't feel for Hye Rin. She got functional, seen her school friends who were cold towards her and she turned to Tae Soo for comfort. To his credit Tae Soo was not scared even when he learned who her father was, but maybe he should have been since the father put poor Tae Soo into first prison then to a gangster rehabilitation facility ruled by the army. It was not a nice place. And the couple were engaged and moved together when that happened. We learned that father choose Hye Rin as his successor in business, instead of her brother. So he manipulated his way into getting Hye Rin work for him. Hye Rin went to Woo Suk who was shocked to find out that Tae Soo and Hye Rin were engaged. He, against all his principles, bribed an officer to get Tae Soo an early relase but Tae Soo was not behaving well. He got into a fight protecting another ganster boss he knew way back and two of them and the boss' loyal follower, once a rival gangster of Tae Soo were sent to an even worse place. He managed to break out (while planning the boss made Romance of the Three Kingdom references and I was shallowly so happy to get all of them) and the boss jumped off the train since the other guy was killed trying to save him. Tae Soo was caught right after he got off that train - a thing Iike about Korean dramas is you have to expect the unexpected. Meanwhile Hye Rin told her father that she will work for him when Tae Soo was released and she promised her father that she will never see Tae Soo again.
When our OTP whose love I really can't believe, were busy with these difficulties, Woo Suk's father had cancer and before he died, he made Woo Suk promise that he will be judge. I admired Woo Suk not to be one since he killed people, bribed etc. and he felt like he is not qualified to pass judgement on people who committed these crimes. A man with principles. Too bad that the actor is not really good looking and a bit old for these young parts of the story...
Dark Mountain is resting now waiting for me to pick it up probably on Monday.