What moves me...
...a good 'ol romantic tragedy. No, I'm not talking about Romeo and Juliet. I'm talking J-Dorama here. I'm talking "Majo no Jouken", or "Forbidden Love" (its english market title). This love story is similar to the Mary Kay Letourneau story, except the lovers in Majo are 26 (female teacher - Michi) and 17 (male student - Hikaru) years old. Mary Kay's was 13 years old. So, Majo's age numbers are just right on the border of legality. Not too out there.
Majo's main theme was about a modern day witch hunt. Both characters fall in love with eachother, but Hikaru's extremely jealous and overbearing mother launches the hunt and plots to doom their relationship. They have this tug-of-war of emotions, wanting to be eachother, not wanting to be with eachother later....but all the time, still in love. Society makes things worse too. They are labeled as outcasts and immoral people. They are scourned and mocked in school. Yet, they live on and continue to love.
This never-ending love moves me. The fact that the characters survive hardship after hardship, and forced seperation, almost brings me to tears. And through it all, they never give up. Maybe they take a break to think, but, their focus is to be together, period.
In the story, the two lovebirds become pregnant, but problems occur. After 2 near-miscarriages, more fighting and hardship, they finally come back together, only to endure the loss of the baby via emergency operation. Because of the massive blood loss, Michi never regains consciousness. But Hikaru remained at her side no matter what.
So, in the end, Hikaru regains focus and purpose in life, with Michi (in a comatose state) forever by his side, and he by her side. He remains dedicated to the love of his life, as he tells her in the last scene that he will become a doctor not to regain his family's hospital, but to find a way to heal Michi. (There's also closure with other side characters, like family and friends, and Hikaru's vengeful mother stops her angst and accepts Michi and Hikaru's love.)
Now, here's the trick ending. He falls asleep by her side after telling her this. And she wakes up with him beside her in bed. She brushes his face enough for him to open his eyes and see that she's awake. But, he's not jumping out of the bed for joy, and not screaming that she's alive, or alerting the nurses. He just looks at her, and falls back asleep. She embraces him more as he does this.
The ending caused speculation amongst viewers. Was he just dreaming that she woke up? Or did she really wake up?
This is my opinion:
Now...is that a normal reaction to do when someone's waking up from a coma? I wouldn't do what he did! I would scream, and call for help! Plus, with all that blood loss that she went through, I'm sure she must have fallen into multi-system failure, the most important of all - the brain. If she really did wake up, I wouldn't think she would be 100%, like mental retardation due to brain damage from lack on oxygen carried in the blood.
But...what I want to believe happened...is that she survived the blood loss unscathed, just fell into a coma so her body can heal, then awoke when he told her he was at peace and has a life-path...the thing she was trying to help him with when she was well and non-comatose. I want to believe that she really did wake up, and that Hikaru was too tire to emote anything, so he just fell back to sleep, but at least knows she's by his side. I want to believe that she recovers fully and returns to teaching as both of them live life together.
But...I guess we'll never know. Endings like that piss me off. I want a solid answer...not a maybe. Maybe they do that for suspense or individual interpretations, but I don't like that.
To get to the point...I want a love like that...but not tragic...I want to love someone so deeply like that, that I'm complete when together. I want someone to love me unconditionally and through anything. I want to feel alive when I'm with that person. I want to feel content and happy...shiawase ni naru...that's my ultimate life goal. I want to share my life with someone...have them as a witness, so I know my life was appreciated and treasured.
*sigh* all of this from J-Dorama. By the way, I have this as MPG for PC or a DVD-playable disc, if anyone wants to watch. I highly recommend it. It's an old drama (1999), but it's still great.
One more thing before I go...things that I want to have happen in movies or TV, always never happen. The most recent case...Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Everybody's saying J. Rowling is planning for Ron and Hermione to get together. I'd much rather see Harry and Hermione together. They'd be cool. She's got the brains, and he's got the courage. Did you see how they interacted in the movie? Val says it's just brotherly/sisterly love, but I don't think so. Hermione seems to have feelings for both Ron and Harry, but I want her to go for Harry. Of course, that will never happen...
here's Michi and Hikaru...doomed lovers...
Majo's main theme was about a modern day witch hunt. Both characters fall in love with eachother, but Hikaru's extremely jealous and overbearing mother launches the hunt and plots to doom their relationship. They have this tug-of-war of emotions, wanting to be eachother, not wanting to be with eachother later....but all the time, still in love. Society makes things worse too. They are labeled as outcasts and immoral people. They are scourned and mocked in school. Yet, they live on and continue to love.
This never-ending love moves me. The fact that the characters survive hardship after hardship, and forced seperation, almost brings me to tears. And through it all, they never give up. Maybe they take a break to think, but, their focus is to be together, period.
In the story, the two lovebirds become pregnant, but problems occur. After 2 near-miscarriages, more fighting and hardship, they finally come back together, only to endure the loss of the baby via emergency operation. Because of the massive blood loss, Michi never regains consciousness. But Hikaru remained at her side no matter what.
So, in the end, Hikaru regains focus and purpose in life, with Michi (in a comatose state) forever by his side, and he by her side. He remains dedicated to the love of his life, as he tells her in the last scene that he will become a doctor not to regain his family's hospital, but to find a way to heal Michi. (There's also closure with other side characters, like family and friends, and Hikaru's vengeful mother stops her angst and accepts Michi and Hikaru's love.)
Now, here's the trick ending. He falls asleep by her side after telling her this. And she wakes up with him beside her in bed. She brushes his face enough for him to open his eyes and see that she's awake. But, he's not jumping out of the bed for joy, and not screaming that she's alive, or alerting the nurses. He just looks at her, and falls back asleep. She embraces him more as he does this.
The ending caused speculation amongst viewers. Was he just dreaming that she woke up? Or did she really wake up?
This is my opinion:
Now...is that a normal reaction to do when someone's waking up from a coma? I wouldn't do what he did! I would scream, and call for help! Plus, with all that blood loss that she went through, I'm sure she must have fallen into multi-system failure, the most important of all - the brain. If she really did wake up, I wouldn't think she would be 100%, like mental retardation due to brain damage from lack on oxygen carried in the blood.
But...what I want to believe happened...is that she survived the blood loss unscathed, just fell into a coma so her body can heal, then awoke when he told her he was at peace and has a life-path...the thing she was trying to help him with when she was well and non-comatose. I want to believe that she really did wake up, and that Hikaru was too tire to emote anything, so he just fell back to sleep, but at least knows she's by his side. I want to believe that she recovers fully and returns to teaching as both of them live life together.
But...I guess we'll never know. Endings like that piss me off. I want a solid answer...not a maybe. Maybe they do that for suspense or individual interpretations, but I don't like that.
To get to the point...I want a love like that...but not tragic...I want to love someone so deeply like that, that I'm complete when together. I want someone to love me unconditionally and through anything. I want to feel alive when I'm with that person. I want to feel content and happy...shiawase ni naru...that's my ultimate life goal. I want to share my life with someone...have them as a witness, so I know my life was appreciated and treasured.
*sigh* all of this from J-Dorama. By the way, I have this as MPG for PC or a DVD-playable disc, if anyone wants to watch. I highly recommend it. It's an old drama (1999), but it's still great.
One more thing before I go...things that I want to have happen in movies or TV, always never happen. The most recent case...Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Everybody's saying J. Rowling is planning for Ron and Hermione to get together. I'd much rather see Harry and Hermione together. They'd be cool. She's got the brains, and he's got the courage. Did you see how they interacted in the movie? Val says it's just brotherly/sisterly love, but I don't think so. Hermione seems to have feelings for both Ron and Harry, but I want her to go for Harry. Of course, that will never happen...
here's Michi and Hikaru...doomed lovers...
I just watched MnJ and I thought the ending was a bit odd too, but I just assumed it was more towards the 2nd theory, that he was too tired to get all excited. That, or he thought he was dreaming, and he wanted to keep dreaming that she was awake, so he continued sleeping.
I think she really did wake up, just like how Hikaru's mom woke up for real after her fingers twitched.
But yeah, even if she did wake up she probably would've been a bit off in some ways (as you said, she'd lost a lot of blood), though I hope she's just fine afer that one month of 'resting'.
Such a beautiful/tragic show. :)
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12/02/2013 11:58:00 AM