“My Mister/My Ahjussi” is one of the best series or dramas I have seen. It is written by one of my favorite writer. This is not from a random K-pop fan and it’s not a rom-com. Trust me, My Mister is a slice of life that includes poverty, work, kindness, love, marriage, infidelity, family, friends, greed, mentorship, etc.
The plot revolves around a collision between a man (Doog Hoon) in his forties carrying his weights and a woman (Ji an) in her twenties. It has sixteen episodes. It’s definitely worth the time.
Doog Hoon works for a construction company, is married to a lawyer, and has a son. He lives a normal, mundane life according to his principles. He has two dependent elder brothers and a mother. A bunch of neighborhood friends accompanies them to morning football matches and late-night drinks. He is unaware of his wife’s infidelity. Ji works as an assistant in the same organization. Her parents abandoned her with a mountain of debt and a deaf and dumb grandmother to care for.
The story centres around these two main characters and how they help each other grow as happy people. Their relationship cannot be classified as love, mentorship, respect, elder-younger, or anything else. I honestly don’t understand it, but I adore it. I’m not here to narrate the entire screenplay, but a few lines or scripts have left an indelible impression on me.
"All humans are bound to see things that they desire. They end up searching for the things that they want to see within themselves in the outside world. If your heart is good then you won’t see a single thing that you hate in this world."
"Life, in a way, is a struggle between internal and external forces, too. No matter what happens, you'll be able to withstand anything if you have sufficient internal forces."
"You are the one to decide. If you consider it to be no big deal, then it is no big deal."
"All right, let’s do it. All right, let’s do it! Let’s see this through until the end! Let’s just see how far I can go. I’m curious, too… to see just what I will do when I am completely ruined. And what kind of person I will become. Let’s do it."
"It’s difficult to be around a person who saw you so vulnerable."
"It’s easy for people who have money to become good people."
"The thing about human beings is... they live their entire lives in fear that they'll become failures. At first, I was truly happy that Director Park had become a failure. Because Director Park seemed to be fine... despite having failed, it made me think, "it's okay to fail." :"it's nothing, really." "you can still be happy."
"Everyone struggles for their whole life trying to have things. So they live their entire lives trying to prove themselves to everyone. But nobody truly knows what they are gaining by doing that."
"I'm so sick of this world filled with people who all act like they're amazing."
"So why did you have to go to such lengths to dig out someone's painful past? Isn't it only humane to try and let others forget about their past as much as we want to forget our own?"
"The world was filled with stories of people cheating on each other. But when it became my own story, I can't describe it."
"Sometimes I wish I could just have it displayed on the LED billboards for everyone in the world to see instead of living in such fear for the rest of my life."
"I’m going to go to your grandmother’s funeral and you should come to my mother’s funeral. It’s not going to be an awkward and uncomfortable relationship, even if we see each other later on, let’s be able to greet each other warmly and be able to act like we know one another, let’s do that."
"The mere fact that there's someone cheering me on like that helps me breathe."
You can watch it here.
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