Taiwanese title: 天國的嫁衣 (天国的嫁衣)
Other titles: La Robe de mariée des cieux / La Robe de mariage des cieux / Bride from Paradise / La Robe de mariage
19 episodes
Aired on CTS/SETTV
From 2004 September to 2005 JanuaryMain cast:
Notes:
- Hello Huang Yu Rong (In love with a rich girl and My Lucky star - reunion!)
- Trigger warning: implicit sexual assault
- It's incredible that Other Boy doesn't get to be on the poster.
Review: +/-
Title: There are talks and glimpses of that gown but it isn't at the foreground. Also, it has no relevance to half of the drama.
Girl: Typical Girl in that cute, bubbly way. She's confident and outspoken. (+)
Boy: He's a fashion designer who wants to be independant from his father's big company. At first, he's an arrogant jerk but Girl sees his potential and as it turns out, he's perfect.
Other Boy: He's a professional motocycle racer. He's loyal and a good guy... but I didn't like that he was so intrusive and possessive with Girl.
Other girl: She's crazy. It's sad but interesting.
Plot/ Relationships: I wasn't bored watching. However, this drama suffers from the case that killed Alice in Wonder city: it's two-in-one. If I wanted to watch a drama about a racer, his crew and his brushes with mobbish guys, I wouldn't be watching something titled Heaven's wedding gown. Anyway, it works better because at the very least, stuff happens and the two parts intersect regularly, because there is only one hospital and one hotel in that city. And because of Girl who's torn between the two guys and their world.
Here is my main source of dislike. I don't care for extended love triangles. Everyone is unlikeable:
- The guys because they fight over the girl: she's mine, no she's mine, I'm giving her to you, I'm not losing to you... you see the gist, it becomes less about her (an object) and more about male ego. It is adressed directly in the drama but it doesn't make it less annoying episode after episode.
- The girl because as a character, her wants become confusing and (this is real life talking) she ends up using a guy she doesn't like by giving him hope even if she has good intentions. Girls, boys, don't do that. If you say you aren't in love with someone but act like you are, you're giving mixed signals and the hopeful person in love won't move on. I think friendship between guys and girls is possible but if one starts developing feelings but doesn't have the courage to stop seeing the other one, the other one has to scale down the intimacy. /End of the PSA.
Other characters: They were good! I like Boy's mother, Other boy's friends (Xiang Zhen (fierce) and Ah Bu) and the villains. One of them is of the best/worst kind: they are able to seem like they're helping when actually they are undermining you.
Funny factor? I kept a character for this category: Boy's over-the-top assistant. He is funny.
Music: At first, I found it dated but I got used to it. There is an insert song that I really like.
What the...? I'm not sure they had to start the drama in Paris but hey, why not? Also, the fashion is... not very good. Girl has to wear a (tiny but not that tiny) wooden horse around her neck.
Most egregious clichés: Insta-love. Soulmates. Weddingus interruptus. Star-crossed lovers missing each other by a hair (it happened three times).
Bottom line: Characters are great (except for Other's boy pushiness) but the drama would have been better off with fewer episodes.
This is now an old movie in 2021. This is a decent story but the girls character is now so outdated. She is too much of a simpleton at times and uneducated to justify the sometimes sophisticate dialogue she has in the script. I hope the producer and director of Meteor Garden would redo this movie. They successfully re-did Boys Over Flowers (Meteor Garden).
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