Four colors of love “Can we get married” is a cozy, most unpretentious story about the relationship between men and women in all their possible variations.
Love faced with reality
Jun Hoon (Sung Joon) and Hae Yoon (Jong So-min) are lovers about to get married. And at first they think of the wedding as a happy event, but parents intervene, and the preparation for the celebration turns into an incessant hassle. How not to hit in front of friends in the dirt face? Where to celebrate the wedding and not go broke? And how do you divide the costs if the bride’s family is poor and the groom doesn’t want to spend too much? That's how reality kills romance. Parents, beautiful people in essence, judge everything based on their own experience, only for a single mother who is used to counting every penny and spouses who have lived in love and prosperity, this experience is too different.
Love is hidden
Friends of the main characters - Ji Yun (Kim Yong Kwan) and Don Bi (Khan Gru) - the viewer catches at a turning point in their five-year relationship, when the girl becomes attached to Ji Yun so much that she wants to be there all the time, but it seems that an expensive broken lamp interests him more than the broken heart of Don B. Only from rare, sudden outpouring phrases can we guess that Ji Yun’s indifference and cynicism are only a mask, and behind his break with Don B there is a really difficult choice.
Love found
Another couple is a 50-year-old aunt Hae Yoon, who has never been in a relationship, and a friend of Ji Yoon, who has 2 divorces behind her shoulders. Too different to be together, the characters over time become perhaps the most harmonious couple of the series.
The fourth line will tell the viewer about the lost love. Respected and successful doctor Do Hyun for 7 years of marriage made his wife like his maid. The constant infidelity of the husband pushes the woman to divorce, the spouses begin to fight for the right to custody of their son and jointly acquired property, which means that the gates of hell open. In part, the events of this storyline resemble Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story.
‘Can We Get Married?’ raises the issues of fathers and children, male-female relationships, the fact that our childhood traumas remain with us for life, and it takes a lot of courage not to repeat the fate of our unhappy parents. History attracts with its touching simplicity and an attempt to understand everyone who made a mistake, here even the scoundrel is led by fear, bitterness of loneliness and humanity.
A separate advantage of the series is its graceful, written-off ending. I will also mention a fresh and talented acting ensemble.
Don’t expect much and you won’t be disappointed.
7 out of 10.