Mine
- TV Series
- 2021
- 1h 10m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Encaged in a gold-clad life of secrets and lies, two women in a conglomerate family seek to topple all that stands in their way of finding true joy.Encaged in a gold-clad life of secrets and lies, two women in a conglomerate family seek to topple all that stands in their way of finding true joy.Encaged in a gold-clad life of secrets and lies, two women in a conglomerate family seek to topple all that stands in their way of finding true joy.
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🐍Dynasty Meets Hitchcock@ Girl Power Hour🍎
This is a family shackled by the proverbial golden handcuffs. If we peel away the gilded trappings, for all that, it reveals that this family's hearts are what's shackled.
Is this not for everyone? Sure.
Is it well done? Absolutely.
Mine was carefully and skillfully crafted. If one can watch until the end, the message is plenty powerful.
While, Mine's not exactly subtle, it appears to be designed that way. The truth is in front of everyone. It's not running away from them, it's escaping them, because they refuse to see it. It's not subtle. It bludgeons the audience.
Mine is a slow burn style show with a weighty feel to it, along w/ a sense of impending doom. Everything in Mine is deliberate. It's an all-inclusive and methodical work. The pace augments the slow burn effect. The soundtrack portends doom. The dialogue and acting sustain the extreme tension.
The quest for more and more elusive power may leave one's soul PowerLESS. Trapped. Snared. Hooked. Captured. Love, or the lack of it, is the true power in Mine: We see the Power Of Love is snuffed out by pride. Nearly every person in the show is damaged due to the want of love. Jin-ho and Jin-hee were marred by a dearth of love and (emotional) support because their parents are thoroughly self-centered. They were provided with more (emotionally) than Ji-yoon, though.
Metaphors, both visual and verbal, are utilized to add layers of depth. One character has a literal and metaphoric wake up. This person, though late to do so, makes an effort to encourage those around h/h to improve themselves, and alter their destructive course. Han Soo-hyuk's heart sweater represents his character. Kang's visual signals and wardrobe change as she adapts to the situation. Mother is always eating meat, always consuming.
Cadenza and Rubato are metaphors. Neither is a beautiful mansion. Cadenza is institutional, like an asylum. There is imagery of bars and cells everywhere. The beautiful painting at the top of the stairs features black, sturdy looking columns that aren't as strong as they first appear, vaporizing into the persistent wind. There are narrow hallways with ceilings that look like they reach the sky. Cheerless, they look like big inescapable boxes. Another hallway even has painted bars on the walls. One character reveals the desire to escape.
What's impressive is how the staircase is an open mouth. Looking straight on, the viewer is in the INSIDE of the mouth, and the stairs are the teeth. They've been consumed. The focus constantly drifts back to the stairs or the foyer. Kim Yu-yeon is always polishing that stair railing. The attention the stairway gets must mean something.
Many of Rubato and Cadenza's rooms and hallways look like segments or cells lined up. That, again, brings to mind prisons and mental words. Could this represent compartmentalization?
The director/writer consistency use repetition to hammer a point and build tension. MINE MINE MINE Is ubiquitous in the series. One of the characters says: "I've never had a thing that was truly mine. Now, everything is mine," exposing replete self-deception. As Mother Emma will point out, we are all deluded about what we consider to be "mine."
KILL Murder dead- There's constant mention of those words. "I feel sorry for them" is said more than once in the series, Jin-ho being the first. He added: "Everyone in the family is lonely."
Plunge Fall Descent are all concepts explored in the show, both verbally and visually. They've abandoned contentment for an illusion. They are blind to their own "stuff," shredding their hearts as they plunge to meet their own hard truths. Yet they still try to enforce their way of life on Soo-hyuk.
Foreshadowing is prevalent. There's a heavy, weighty feel to Mine w/a sense of impending doom.
Lie spy die is how they fly. Everyone has secrets. They blackmail and threaten as easily as they breathe. They spy to get fuel for their designs.
Arrogance infects all interactions. Ji-yoon is the Father's illegitimate child, whom he brought home to be raised along with his half siblings. Ji-yoon tells his son, Ha-joon, that 'God always takes something from special people like us." His declaration that he's special may be coming from a place of pain. He was not made to feel special, or loved, growing up, so he's grasping at anything that will feed his starving self-image.
The humor - it's funny at times. Nobody's funnier than clueless Mother and her kids. She says stuff like: "Nobody's more stressed out than I am." Tsk tsk.
MINE echoes the excellent movie, Gosford Park. A predecessor to Downtown Abbey, there is not one scene where the servants are not present. They play their whole torrid lives out in front of the servants without hardly noticing they are there.
Another character starts to channel an inner Rev Dimmesdale from The Scarlet Letter. This person becomes consumed with anxiety and guilt over the situation.
Mother Emma is held up as a comparison to the family. She's the one that's truly living a fulfilling life.
These last few episodes are downright Hitchcockian. Hi-soo is a Grace Kelly type, also.
It's not perfect. No doubt some viewers will think it's too heavy handed. I'm of the opinion that it all works together well. Toward the end, they made one of the 'baddies' too easy to kill. The person was being too honest about their intentions, which wasn't realistic.
The narrator says, in the intro, that "she" caused the caste system at Cadenza to collapse. Wouldn't you like to know who that is? Is it, perhaps, a generic "she?" EP 16 is entitled: "Glorious WOMEN." We see some satisfying "girl power" moments in the last episode.
I hope that some of this will help to underscore what is going on beneath the surface. I wasn't dying to watch it, but I think I'll probably drop in for another visit sometime.
Quote: "Think about what's truly yours. {She lists a bunch of possessions and points out that everything they own will be passed on to someone else, so things aren't truly yours.} The things you've said, the things you've done, and the values that you strived to keep throughout your life, or what you'll bring with you when you die. Let's drive to find what's truly ours during our time in this world.
~Mother Emma~
Is that too preachy? Perhaps. Unfortunately, it's important and true.
I also did a spoiler review
🥖
Is this not for everyone? Sure.
Is it well done? Absolutely.
Mine was carefully and skillfully crafted. If one can watch until the end, the message is plenty powerful.
While, Mine's not exactly subtle, it appears to be designed that way. The truth is in front of everyone. It's not running away from them, it's escaping them, because they refuse to see it. It's not subtle. It bludgeons the audience.
Mine is a slow burn style show with a weighty feel to it, along w/ a sense of impending doom. Everything in Mine is deliberate. It's an all-inclusive and methodical work. The pace augments the slow burn effect. The soundtrack portends doom. The dialogue and acting sustain the extreme tension.
The quest for more and more elusive power may leave one's soul PowerLESS. Trapped. Snared. Hooked. Captured. Love, or the lack of it, is the true power in Mine: We see the Power Of Love is snuffed out by pride. Nearly every person in the show is damaged due to the want of love. Jin-ho and Jin-hee were marred by a dearth of love and (emotional) support because their parents are thoroughly self-centered. They were provided with more (emotionally) than Ji-yoon, though.
Metaphors, both visual and verbal, are utilized to add layers of depth. One character has a literal and metaphoric wake up. This person, though late to do so, makes an effort to encourage those around h/h to improve themselves, and alter their destructive course. Han Soo-hyuk's heart sweater represents his character. Kang's visual signals and wardrobe change as she adapts to the situation. Mother is always eating meat, always consuming.
Cadenza and Rubato are metaphors. Neither is a beautiful mansion. Cadenza is institutional, like an asylum. There is imagery of bars and cells everywhere. The beautiful painting at the top of the stairs features black, sturdy looking columns that aren't as strong as they first appear, vaporizing into the persistent wind. There are narrow hallways with ceilings that look like they reach the sky. Cheerless, they look like big inescapable boxes. Another hallway even has painted bars on the walls. One character reveals the desire to escape.
What's impressive is how the staircase is an open mouth. Looking straight on, the viewer is in the INSIDE of the mouth, and the stairs are the teeth. They've been consumed. The focus constantly drifts back to the stairs or the foyer. Kim Yu-yeon is always polishing that stair railing. The attention the stairway gets must mean something.
Many of Rubato and Cadenza's rooms and hallways look like segments or cells lined up. That, again, brings to mind prisons and mental words. Could this represent compartmentalization?
The director/writer consistency use repetition to hammer a point and build tension. MINE MINE MINE Is ubiquitous in the series. One of the characters says: "I've never had a thing that was truly mine. Now, everything is mine," exposing replete self-deception. As Mother Emma will point out, we are all deluded about what we consider to be "mine."
KILL Murder dead- There's constant mention of those words. "I feel sorry for them" is said more than once in the series, Jin-ho being the first. He added: "Everyone in the family is lonely."
Plunge Fall Descent are all concepts explored in the show, both verbally and visually. They've abandoned contentment for an illusion. They are blind to their own "stuff," shredding their hearts as they plunge to meet their own hard truths. Yet they still try to enforce their way of life on Soo-hyuk.
Foreshadowing is prevalent. There's a heavy, weighty feel to Mine w/a sense of impending doom.
Lie spy die is how they fly. Everyone has secrets. They blackmail and threaten as easily as they breathe. They spy to get fuel for their designs.
Arrogance infects all interactions. Ji-yoon is the Father's illegitimate child, whom he brought home to be raised along with his half siblings. Ji-yoon tells his son, Ha-joon, that 'God always takes something from special people like us." His declaration that he's special may be coming from a place of pain. He was not made to feel special, or loved, growing up, so he's grasping at anything that will feed his starving self-image.
The humor - it's funny at times. Nobody's funnier than clueless Mother and her kids. She says stuff like: "Nobody's more stressed out than I am." Tsk tsk.
MINE echoes the excellent movie, Gosford Park. A predecessor to Downtown Abbey, there is not one scene where the servants are not present. They play their whole torrid lives out in front of the servants without hardly noticing they are there.
Another character starts to channel an inner Rev Dimmesdale from The Scarlet Letter. This person becomes consumed with anxiety and guilt over the situation.
Mother Emma is held up as a comparison to the family. She's the one that's truly living a fulfilling life.
These last few episodes are downright Hitchcockian. Hi-soo is a Grace Kelly type, also.
It's not perfect. No doubt some viewers will think it's too heavy handed. I'm of the opinion that it all works together well. Toward the end, they made one of the 'baddies' too easy to kill. The person was being too honest about their intentions, which wasn't realistic.
The narrator says, in the intro, that "she" caused the caste system at Cadenza to collapse. Wouldn't you like to know who that is? Is it, perhaps, a generic "she?" EP 16 is entitled: "Glorious WOMEN." We see some satisfying "girl power" moments in the last episode.
I hope that some of this will help to underscore what is going on beneath the surface. I wasn't dying to watch it, but I think I'll probably drop in for another visit sometime.
Quote: "Think about what's truly yours. {She lists a bunch of possessions and points out that everything they own will be passed on to someone else, so things aren't truly yours.} The things you've said, the things you've done, and the values that you strived to keep throughout your life, or what you'll bring with you when you die. Let's drive to find what's truly ours during our time in this world.
~Mother Emma~
Is that too preachy? Perhaps. Unfortunately, it's important and true.
I also did a spoiler review
🥖
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