Can We Get Married traverses a pragmatic story of loving someone, breaking up and becoming brave to love again.
From the director of My Lovely Samsoon and Que Sera Sera, it felt like a getting-married-staying-married-leaving-marriage instructional video for men and women entertaining the idea of committing their lives to someone.
- Main Leads: Jung So Min | Sung Joon | Kim Sung Min | Jung Ae Yeon | Kim Young Kwang | Han Groo
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Can We Get Married Quick Plot Recap
After 3 years of dating Hae-yoon and Jung-hoon decided to get married but in the course of planning the wedding, their mothers got entangled in a series of misunderstandings that involved Jung-hoon’s salaryman status and Hae-yoon’s family background.
Ruminative and realistic, this series is like a one-stop guide for parents, in-laws and about-to-be-married couples. Unfiltered and sensible thoughts abound in this drama that also features three love stories.
Can We Get Married Series Highlights
The Love That Defied Stubborn and Outspoken Mothers
As the focal love story, Jung-hoon and Hae-yoon brave their you-and-me-against-our-mothers love story to highs and lows that viewers can definitely feel.
Jung-hoon is a regular employee born from a rich family while Hae-yoon is raised by her single mother and works as a grade school teacher. Even with their incessant bickering, they always reflect on their actions and they talk about it even at the expense of hurting each other. They are the classic strong-weak couple.
Hae-yoon who took after her mother’s sometimes unreasonable selfishness loves calculating how her decisions and the things around them might impact their forthcoming wedding.
She can submit to being submissive just to please her future mother-in-law-to-be, but when she got too emotionally consumed by the conflicts raised by their mothers, she decided to end the relationship blaming the situation she was put onto.
Good-natured Jung-hoon whose spine grew later in the story accepted her decision and chose his solitary pain not because he can’t fight to be with the girl against his family but because he loved her so much, he was okay to be pushed over.
Their conflict was the main premise of the story and it was exhausting to watch a meek guy and his adamant girlfriend go labyrinthine because they were both protecting their parents.
Sometimes there are reasonable situations that can make a person forget their filial duties, in their case, the parents have been so overly protective and thoroughly dissecting their future with their thinking and not with how their children were feeling.
The Love That Got Sweeter The Second Time Around
Dating for five years both Ki-joong and Dong-bi were showing strong faces not believing they really love each other. Both coming from rich families, they have wounds that can’t be healed no matter how rich their parents were.
Amidst their real and painful stories, they both protected each other in ways they didn’t allow one another to realize it. In the end, they both get love while meeting their conditions.
It is always a happy feeling to get back into a relationship no matter how bad the past was. The love won’t entirely cover the scar it created but the people in love will grow together with that experience.
The Marriage That Got Away
Most of the tears in the series are contributed by Do-hyun and Hae-jin.
The man loves his wife but his ego can’t bear following his manipulative mother-in-law. The divorce settlement procedure shows how pride can ruin love, and not reconciling makes sense considering the man cheated on his wife.
Wanting Do-hyun to get a dose of his own medicine because he was given a lot of chance to make it right but his stupid hubris won’t concede was a good call in the story.
While both of them know how their situation was affecting their son, they were wise to really be firm on their decision.
There are relationships that really needed to be ended especially if it will be damaging not just for the couple involved but for their children.
Can We Get Married Series Musings
Covering your ears whenever Hae-yoon’s mother starts talking about her son-in-law’s family and covering your eyes when Jung-hoon’s mother looks down on Hae-yoon’s family background are useful tips to endure the angsty spirit of Can We Get Married.
Had they not finally conspired and forcedly comprehended that it was really true love that hit their children, and finally provided a way for them to get back together and get married, we would have not forgiven them too.
Hae-yoon and Jung-hoon’s love story circled on how a couple can take the punches of a relationship with opposing beliefs of their family.
It gives an enlightening moment of how being in a relationship should not make you feel confused by weighing how good you are as a person and if you are worthy to be with the person.
At the end of it all, it is still the love you can commit to those matters. Just like any relationship, you might go against what you have promised someone, if you do, and you want to take it back, you can always will. It takes a lot of courage to share your dreams and to love someone.
Can We Get Married is a ruminative love tale that presented varied reasons, delusions, confusions, pain and happiness when intending to share a life with someone officially.
It sends viewers, particularly those averse to marriage, to a pensive state. Because it justifies the belief that love is forever.
It also acknowledges the happy truth that while relationships can be moody at times, there are things like two-way happiness, warm embraces, and sweet kisses that life-long love can only define.
This series is a nice watch for people having second thoughts to tie the knot and couples who can’t figure out why they are staying in love with the wrong person and wanting to be in love after break-ups.
This is a love video pill in Before Sunrise, Love Actually and 500 Days of Summer witty screenplay vibe plus nagger moms and a great support cast on the side.
It’s not your cheesy romcom but it’s oh-so-full of realistic romance that has happened, will happen, and might be happening to all of us.
Photos: JTBC Drama
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