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Look as this sculpture. The one lying down.

Are you confused with what I am saying?

Do you not understand what I am saying?

Do you really think that this guy is a sculpture?

People call hot actor “a sculpture,” because they look perfect as if they are sculptured.  The word “sculpture” basically implies that this actor has a handsome face, a perfect body, and a perfect height. Sojisub is one of the top sculptures in Korea. (He is the one lying down in the poster above.) He just has a perfect body with a pacific shoulder and muscles. Koreans often use a phrase, “pacific shoulder,” because Pacific here means the Pacific ocean. It is indicating that shoulder is wide just like the ocean. Also he has a perfect face. He doesn’t have double eyelid. Korean people prefer to have double eyelid because your eyes look bigger and that is why everyone gets plastic surgeries to have double eyelid. But I personally do not like double eyelid on men. He is just pefect. Words just can’t express how gorgeous he is.

Currently, he is a protagonist of a drama called Cain and Abel. I started watching this drama because of this hottest guy–Sojisub. But as I continued watching, I started to like the story and his acting even more. Although it contains all the stereotypes of Korean drama, I still like it.

As the name Cain and Abel indicates, two brothers come out. The brothers are doctors and their parents are the directors of a hospital. Sojisub plays Lee cho-in (Abel).

Just like a typical Korean drama, there is this complicated family background. Lee cho-in is an adopted son, but his older brother Lee sunwoo is real son. But the father adores Lee cho-in more even he is not his real son. Then the father decides to give the hosptial to adopted son. But then the father became comma because of a brain tumor.

Then the mother and Lee sunwoo (the older brother) plan to kill Lee cho-in, so they could possess the hospital. One day, Lee Cho-in goes to China because of the medical conference. On his way back to Korea, he gets kidnapped and he loses his memory.Later on, he gets his memory back and revenges. Most importantly, there is also a love triangle.

It contains all the stereotypes and it is a typical Korean drama even it is based upon the story of Cain and Abel in the Bible.

Despite the fact that the story is stereotyped, Sojisub plays his role really well and makes the drama unique. He is not only a sculpture, but also a good actor!

Look at him! SO CUTE

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please spend ONLY 2 minutes to watch this awesome trailer of the curious case of benjamin button

The only reason I was interested in this movie even before it was released was because of the hottest actor in the world–Brad Pitt. He is literally a “walking sculpture.” Sometimes, it feels weird because Brad Pitt is my dad’s age and he still looks hot–doesn’t even look like a middle-age man. Anyways, after I saw the trailer, I got astonished again. The story itself was just amazing. I was impressed by a 2-minute-long trailer.So I went to the cinema with my friends to watch “the curious case of Benjamin Button.”

Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) was born with 80-year-old-looking-face in 1918–the end of the WWI. He was a newborn baby from the wealthy “Button” family. But his mom died while giving birth to Benjamin. Then his father abandoned him, just because he was abnormal. So Benjamin grew up in an asylum where there were only old people. There, he had to realize what death was, because he had only seen the deaths, but not births. He himself thought he was an old man who would confront death soon. But later, he met a girl named “Daisy” and he fell in love with her. But he soon realized that they are too different. But still, they shared their thoughts and feelings and they became best friends.

As time passed, Benjamin became younger. He started off as 80-year old, but he now became 60 year-old and left the asylum. He participated in the World War II and traveled around the world after the war. Later he came to back to the asylum in Louisiana. There he met his father again and his father apologized to him for everything and Benjamin inherited all his properties. He also met Daisy again and found out that she became a ballerina. But again, he realized Daisy was different from Daisy whom he knew as a kid (or 80-year-old), and left her again. But he could not forget her, because she was his one and only love. So he visited Daisy again but was rejected. Several years later, Daisy got into car accident and was injured. She had to quit ballerina and that made her depressed. But Benjamin supported and took care of her and they finally got married. But the problem was Benjamin was getting younger and younger, while Daisy was getting older. When they had baby and baby was old enough to walk, Benjamin left again and never came back.

20 years later or more, old Daisy–now in her 60s–got a call from an orphanage. She went there and found Benjamin who looked like 8 year-old boy. He was eventually becoming a real kid. He looked young on the outside, but he had Alzheimer and didn’t remember anything about Daisy and his own kid–Catherine. Benjamin died as a baby in Daisy’s bosom.

It was amazing. The best movie I’ve ever seen in my whole entire life. I would say my best movie so far was Pride and Prejudice. But “the curious case of Benjamin Button” was just overwhelming. It is about life, death, and everything. It basically contains everything: love, friendship, and dreams. I had so many favorite quotes in the movie. When Benjamin asks his step-mom why he looks like an old man and different from the others, she answers, “People have their own ways, people have different paths and you have your own path.” Yes, that is why each one of us are all valuable and worth living. People have different personalities and goals in lives and we have to accept that by interacting with them.

It was really hard for me to accept that people are different from me. I thought I was the one who is always reasonable and rational, and I thought everyone else were wrong. But there is not right or wrong. We are just different. Sometimes, I still can’t accept that, but I am working on it: to understand other people who have different point of views.

Also I learned that no one could avoid DEATH. Birth and the death are same for all people. Journey would be different. But no matter how rich you were or how smart you were,  you will end up dying at the end. But that is why life is just beautiful. Because we try our best to achieve goals and everything. Also we leave our generations–children. One day, I would die too. But at the moment I am dying, I don’t want to regret. I want to say, “It was good to visit Earth.” I do not want to fear it. But on other hand, I thank so much that I am alive. I was never thankful of being alive before. But after watching this movie, I felt like I was alive. I am alive. I am siting right here writing this post and I am alive. I am breathing and looking at the screen. I didn’t know this would be surprising. But it is actually surprising.

The most favorite quote: only on the outside…

Daisy was astonished by Benjamin’s look and said, “You look so young!” Then Benjamin replied, “Only on the outside.”

You never know what’s in the inside. What you see is not everything.

I just recommend everyone to watch this film. I could almost say that this movie changed my life.

Ms. Porter, I personally think we should read this piece of literature in our English class. It is a pretty short story, so it won’t take much class time. And this is American literature since it is written by F. Scott. Fitzgerald who wrote The Great Gatsby and its settings are WWI and WWII. Maybe we should read this instead of the Great Gatsby!

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