SYNOPSIS:
Joongwon
is a 390 year old vampire. He runs a luxurious bar with his
friends and fellow vampire, Yihwa who would force him to drink
blood whenever he grows weak. Afraid of emotional attachments,
Joongwon lives a lonely and secluded life.
One day Joongwon meets Jiwoo, the daughter of his old love
who thinks that he is the son of her mother's love. They start
to fall in love as Joongwon's emotions, frozen by time start
to melt for Jiwoo. Yihwa becomes jealous thinking that she
and Joongwon should be together forever. As the love triangle
develops, Yihwa decides to tell Joongwon how to end his life
forever...
MOVIE REVIEW:
For decades, countless of novels, drama series and movies
revolve about a seemingly frictional yet familiar type of
Being, Vampires.
Korean
drama series are popular for its heart-wrenching mortal love
stories. However, the recent “Freeze” series offers
a slightly refreshing and different platter. This is still
about ill-fated love story but the intriguing idea is that
literal bloodthirsty mutant beings are involved. The latter
always left us, the mortals to the greatest imagination.
“Freeze”
still maintains the same melancholic signature of seemingly
all Korean series. This comes unsurprisingly acceptable for
its die-hard fans. However, it is comparably of a disappointment
to the expectations of the dwelling possibility of having
unexplored aspects of this mutant “being” ventured
into here. No gory element is fine to a certain extent but
sadly, boredom of the usual ideas of wine, class, prestige
about centuries-old but ageless, bloodthirsty Beings precedes.
A
notable aspect of “Freeze” series plays down on
the seemingly glamorous superficial side but focus on them
as not different from ordinary human beings. They do not have
flaring sharp-pointed teeth or colored eyes or supernatural
powers (e.g. flying down from high altitudes) but simply pathetic
souls tortured by a curse to survive on only blood.
If you are touched by the male lead's tear-welled bambi eyes,
perhaps you may embrace“Freeze” with his never-to-be
fated love.
MOVIE RATING:
 
Review
by Alicia Tee
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