Netflix III ; It's Okay Not To Be Okay

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released on 20th of June 2020

It's Okay Not To Be Okay depicts an odd love storey between Moon Gang Tae (Kim Soo Hyun), a seemingly stoic, de-sentisized community health worker at OK Psychiatric Hospital, and the lawless, anarchistic Ko Moon Yeong (Seo Ye Ji), a well-known children's book author. Moon Gang Tae and Ko Moon Yeong both have unhealed childhood emotional wounds that prevent them from fully accepting each other into their lives. Moon Sang Tae (Oh Jung Se) is then introduced as Moon Gang Tae's brother, who has been diagnosed with autism.

Ko Moon-young is a best-selling children's book author. She also happens to be a cold Emotionless Girl verging on The Sociopath. Flashbacks indicate that some of her problems date from her youth, when her father, who had a mental disorder, tried to strangle her to death. In any case, she has little concern for the feelings of others.

Moon Gang-tae is a nurse/caretaker in a psychiatric unit. This may be because his older brother, Moon Sang-tae, is autistic; Sang-tae is his brother's caretaker as well. Sang-tae often has strange nightmares of being attacked by butterflies, memories caused by the singular traumatic event of their childhood—their mother's murder, which Sang-tae witnessed. Now Sang-tae's terror of butterflies forces the brothers to move every year when it's butterfly season. Sang-tae reads children's novels, and happens to be a huge fan of Ko Moon-young.

It was a fantastic psychological drama. All three leads delivered outstanding performances. As the message makes clear, no one is flawless. It's fine to admit it, face one's worries, traumas, abuse, and the chance of being rejected if one opens up, accept love and self-love, and overcome loneliness. It was scary and gloomy at first (which turned me off), but I'm glad I stayed .

 
" forgive me "


" Okay, I'll forgive you if you eat this. Here."

This scene is my favorite scene. An anti-social relationship with an autistic person. They were leaning on each other and comforting each other. I swear, Seo Ye Ji's acting made me cry so much. The way she cries is so realistic. I could not hold back my tears at this scene and Oh Jung Se deserves a big round of applause. I almost forgot he was acting because the actor embodied the character so well. It's difficult to be a regular person who portrays someone with autism, but he did a fantastic job. Seo Yea Ji's acting added to the poignancy of this scene because her character rarely cries, yet here she is, begging forgiveness for a mess she never made.

And don't forget to listen to their fantastic OSTs: Sam Kim's Breath and Lee Suhyun's In Your Time. They're going to give this story that sorrowful feeling.


 

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