AKA: Give Alice A Miracle
Genre: Romance
Episode: 15
Broadcast period: 2012 May to 2012 Sept
Cast: Aaron Yan, Xie Jie Kai, Lara, Yang Gui
Mei and Tracy Chou
This story is about
5 people connected by love, dreams and music.
He Ting Yu (Aaron
Yan) is a concertmaster, and is known for being a genius. Growing up as a child
prodigy, he has constantly been put under pressure and has never known anything
besides his violin. Due to the pressure, Ting Yu stopped sleeping and started
getting paranoid. At the verge of madness he was saved by Kang Lisa (Yang Gui
Mei), a café lady who helped him get over his insomnia and became a stand in
mother.
Lan Die Fei (Lara)
is a huge fan of Ting Yu’s and when her sister offers her a job interview in
the same concert hall; she is more than happy to participate. There she meets
her idol, but is shocked to find out that his personality is completely
different than expected.
When a violinist is
needed, Die Fei recommends Chen Hai Jie (Xiu Jie Kai) whom she had befriended,
and started to be fond of, but even though Hai Jie has a happy personality, he
has a history with a woman called ‘Alice’ (Tracy Chou). Even if he only spent
few days with her, he isn’t able to forget her. Hai Jie manages to get the job,
surprisingly directly from the moody concertmaster Ting Yu, and the two become
close.
Everything becomes
hectic when Lisa gets a visitor claiming to be her long lost daughter called
Ito Seiko - who happens to look exactly like Alice…
So I started this,
even though I love Aaron Yan, without any expectation of it being good. After
watching 15 min, I realized that I really might just not be able to finish 15
episodes, mainly because the storyline sort of gave me a weird “what the hell is
this about” vibe. But once I really watched it, I noticed how good it actually
is. It is a very mature drama, which is rare (might also be the reason for the
vibe), and the usual clichés are there, but made ‘realistic’ in that sense that
they are too ridiculous like we are used to in other dramas.
I had a hard time
seeing Aaron playing the tough guy, though I believe he managed to pull it off.
Also, Lara is great, not the typical pretty girl, but most definatly an amazing
singer!
All in all, serious
drama, with great actors, and great story :)
☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5
stars
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