Regarding the memories of the heroine and the hero, which one is closer to the truth? I don't know if the director has such a tendency, and I have only watched the first season, but I personally think the female lead's memories are more reliable than the male lead's. I've felt that way since the first episode. The narration in the first episode where the two started to recall is also very interesting. When recalling the first time the two met, the male protagonist said confidently, "I remember it clearly, it's like it happened yesterday." The heroine seemed hesitant, and hesitantly said, "I don't remember clearly, it feels like a long, long time has passed." But after the two of them narrated, I found that the male protagonist's memory has obvious flaws, while the female protagonist's memory is more rational and reasonable. The first thing to be sure is that it was the birthday of the heroine's dead son, and she was obviously in a very sad state on that day. In the male protagonist's memories, the female protagonist has always been very cheerful and tried to seduce him several times. And a mother mourning her dead son is clearly not going to do that. In this context, the heroine's memory seems more reasonable. What's more, this is still in the male protagonist's recollection of "just like what happened yesterday".
For another example, the male protagonist meets the female protagonist again at his father-in-law's award ceremony. In the male protagonist's recollection, he saw the female protagonist pouring wine for other guests at the ceremony. In the female lead's memory, she was the male lead she met in the clothing room. Because when she heard that it was the ceremony of the male protagonist's father-in-law, she ran to and asked the foreman to change shifts. In the end, she was transferred to the clothes room, and the details were logical. And as a client, she naturally remembers where she worked more clearly. For such an obvious fact, the male protagonist's memory seems to be unreliable, which means that he is more likely to be biased towards other subtle memories.
Also, what impressed me was the scene when the heroine's daughter went to the heroine's mother-in-law's house. In the male lead's recollection, when he and his wife came to the female lead's mother-in-law's house, his daughter angrily said to the female lead, "I thought we were friends (you actually betrayed me and called my parents here). The male lead thought that The daughter went there to run away from home. In fact, from the heroine's recollection, we learned that his daughter went there just to inform them that her parents were going to initiate legal proceedings against Scott. Moreover, in this case, the heroine's daughter did not hate it It is impossible for the heroine who cheated on her father to suddenly become friends with her. It is also very interesting that the heroine's daughter wears a floral skirt in the hero's memories, and she still looks pure. In the heroine's recollection, she looks obviously much more mature.
Such a narrative is so interesting. The memories that each person narrates are the objective facts of that person. And this drama subtly portrays the character of the recaller from a wider perspective through the deviation of memory.
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