I thoroughly enjoyed La Dolce Vita. It was a difficult drama to watch. Painful lives are never easy to write about and certainly not easy for actors to get into and make us empathise. I don’t think you have to know anything about these characters as applied to real life. This is a fictional drama and a very deeply thought out plot. In fact if you didn’t watch it closely you could miss the secret things that turned the story here and there.
I was so impressed with Lee dong Wook. I have seen him in other things but I never realised that he had it in him to be such a twisted and sad man. Of course the older actors were there to make him step up and churn his soul out in the role.

there was nothing I really could not take in this drama until the very end when he appeared as if a mirage and that jarred my perception altogether. I wondered if they wanted to show the actor once more rather than the character . Niether were necessary for me.
Apart from that, all I can say is I enjoyed it. I still remember it .and I would watch it again.

For a never married, non parent young person who still believes that life is not that complicated and is idealist , the characters are disgusting.

For middle-aged people who have been in a marriage where love has gone out the window a long time ago and are trapped in a loveless marriage, things look differently. Perhaps it’s a mutual situation of convenience.

For divorced women who had the courage to leave this kind of marriage even at the expense of losing material comfort and their children, it’s something they can relate to and understand.

You do not have to have a PhD to understand, appreciate or like this drama, just a little of compassion for the characters who suffered for their own selfish reasons, but couldn’t help it. If we were them, would we be able to see what was wrong with us? In real life, people rarely recognize their flaws and change them before things get more complicated and end up in death or divorce,

LDV is a drama that makes you think. As much as I like comedies, tragic dramas like this one remind us that life is complicated and by watching them, we have the opportunity to look into ourselves, learn what needs to be taken from them and make changes accordingly.

Just because one doesn’t like a particular drama, that doesn’t mean it is unwatchable crap to others. Some dramas hit a cord on each of us, others don’t.

Thank goodness threre are plenty of dramas to fit everyone’s taste.

I am not a Korean and i’m not a big TV Fan.. but… I love “La Dolce Vita”

Totally agreed with your review, esp. on the part about the writer… I’m glad that there’s someone having similar thought… The storyline was just.. perfect… but you really need to put some effort to work that out.. I just love everything out of it.. Each character, each scene, the OST… It’s GREAT~ so I have to say a Big thanks to the team…

I understand that it’s not one of those ‘adorable’ TV series that will touch every single one’s heart.. (the story line limited its market) but for those who likes it, i’m sure it’s one of their Best~

Bittersweet ~

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