Have you ever imagined the real world existing inside a webtoon/manga/comic or vice versa? Have you ever watched or read a story where you wished that you can change the events that happened or is happening?
W is a famous webtoon (web comic) in Korea by author Oh Sung Moo, played by Kim Eui Sung. The tie webtoon world and the real world became closer as his daughter, Oh Yeon Joo (played by Han Hyo Joo) gets dragged into the webtoon. Oh Yeon Joo on many occassions teleports into the webtoon, meets and saves the main character of the webtoon, Kang Chul (Lee Jong Suk).
Kang Chul is the main character in the webtoon, W. He lives in a world where its a replica of Seoul, Korea drawn by the author. Kang Chul has won an Olympic gold medal for shooting, he lost his family overnight in an unsolved murder mystery and has transformed himself before his 30th birthday into an e-commerce and media mogul. Although having a life of twists and turns, he meets Oh Yeon Joo who would suddenly appear and disappear into thin air without warning. His life becomes stranger each time as he begins to wonder why a truck would suddenly drop in and appear out of no where and nearly took his life. Bad things begin to happen to him without a reason.
The cause for all this was no other than the author himself who has fallen into the dark as he becomes unhappy and brings his darkness into the webtoon. Throwing back and forth between the real world the the world of W, how do you think this was resolved? What do you think became the fate of the characters in both the real and W world?
This drama explored a variety of genres such as fantasy, mystery, crime and romance. The drama took off pretty quickly during the first half as the story of Kang Chul unfolded and we begin wondering and become somewhat jealous of how Oh Yeon Joo is able to enter a different world to meeting a hero of a story. Fangirls like me can understand that bit, right? Watching a drama or movie and wishing or fantasising that you can meet the main lead (or second main for some).
I believe that the directors did very well by casting Lee Jong Suk as Kang Chul. Reason being is because Lee Jong Suk really does look like a manga character and it was also something that kept reminding me that he is playing a fictional character who doesn't belong in the real world.
As for Han Hyo Joo, many would say her character in this drama was insignificant or her life in the drama seemed to have lack a good story. I would agree on some parts however she was the one who continuously showed up and somehow saved the main character otherwise there would be no story from the early part where the bad guy meets and kills off the good (oops! spoiler?)
It's basically a drama with no "rules" so don't expect a start to finish but instead, look forward to a roller coaster-like drama filled with the unexpected twists.
- Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/66330?language=en-US
- Critic: AAA