Review_Nodame Cantabile, the final score

     I had never seen foreign TV dramas. I watched only Korean TV dramas, and I was accustomed to them. My friends suggested me to watch some Japanese TV dramas several times, but I didn’t paid attention to what she said. As usual, my friend told me about a Japanese TV drama, Nodame Cantabile, she saw yesterday. That TV drama was about classical music and I, who was interested in classical music, decided to watch that drama. As I expected, it was totally different from the style of Korean TV drama, but I was not repulsed, rather was mesmerized by the charm of Japanese TV drama with unique characters and settings. Of course, I saw the whole chapter of the drama, and watched it over and over again several times. Since, it was one of the special TV dramas to me, its last story, ‘Nodame cantabile, the final score,’ which was made into movie, was also a meaningful and unforgetaable one to me.

     There are two main characters in Nodame Cantabile, Chiaki Shinichi and Noda Megumi (called ‘Nodame’). Chiaki was a musician of genius. Thanks to his outstanding talent in music, he succeeded to adjust to Paris. I liked the character of Chiaki, but he is not the one I want to talk about today. He was somewhat far from ordinary people like me, so I couldn’t actually sympathize with the character. Another character, Nodame, was the one who I could totally understand and sympathize because she was similar to me. Nodame, who was a bright and positive character, experienced frustration as a musician (to be specific, as a pianist). She thought that she didn’t have enough talent to be a world-wide pianist and experienced inner conflict. She wanted to give up the hard way, to be a pianist, and go back to the easy way, to be a teacher in kindergarten.

     As I mentioned above, I think I am in similar situation with her. In my case, my dream is to be a biologist, who studies for the improvement of biology. There are too many people who are more talented and have much more possibilities than me. So, sometimes, I doubt that whether I can be a helpful biologist for the world or not. I like biology and want to be a biologist, but I am not confident to achieve something as a biologist, then, why don’t I find another career which is safer, more comfortable and more enjoyable? Nodame and I, both of us had two options, one of them was relatively unpredictable and the other one was relatively predictable and safe. Nodame was brave enough to overcome the frustration and challenge to a seemingly hard way. How about me? I didn’t decide yet, but I hope that I can be as brave as Nodame to make decision without any regrets.

     I waited for the next story of Nodame Cantabile for about three years. But there will be no more next story that I can wait because the movie, ‘Nodame Cantabile, the final score’ was the last story of Nodame Cantabible series. I feel empty about the fact that this is the last story. The fact that I can’t see Nodame and Chiaki is really sad, but I’m sure that they will live happily because they didn’t gave up their dream.