Fix You (Soul Mechanic) Korean Drama Review

Undeniably Cute Chemistry

At first i thought Dr. Lee Si Joon and Han Wo Joo will not have that cute and sweet chemistry, but i was totally wrong. The smooth flow of the story and how each found love and comfort at each other brightens and enriches the love story of them both. Though at first it is hard to see and reach for the chemistry we all wanted for the characters, still it was not a hindrance for the story to became boring and irrelevant. Totally, this drama isn’t just all about a lovey-dovey couple to see how amazing a drama can be instead it shows quite maturity, acceptance, healing, and repairing at each other which makes the love and chemistry between them much more interesting. 

Heartwarming Episodes

Every episode this drama shows diverse mental health illnesses, through different methods with its different platforms it helps to  cure every patients. What i love the most in every episodes is that it shows us how serious, how important, and how mental illnesses do not choose whatever or whoever you are. Each patients who faced such mental health problems and went through unimaginable pain and sorrows was shown in every episodes, with that we can also see how hardworking our psychiatrists are to heal and close the wounds that leads the patients to be mentally unstable. With the use of different methods and styles to bring back and heal their broken pieces, at the end of every episode reveals where those pains come from which can break the viewers heart at the same time ease our feelings by the healing brought upon them.

Acceptance of Flaws

Just like Dr. Lee Si Joon said “We are all ill (mentally), it’s just that we are still not diagnosed”. I totally agree with Dr. Lee, with what’s happening in our surroundings nowadays or even in the past, we  all have broken pieces and basements hidden within us, it’s just that nobody found us or we are not just ready to face it. People with mental problems usually denies the fact that they are unstable and really in need of help, but just how doctors suggests, we can only heal and free ourselves from the pain if we’ll accept the fact that we are flawed, in pain, sick. 

I also get to understand this concept before when i watched “It’s Okay , that’s love” where Jo Insung played the role of a DJ with a compulsive-obsessive disorder and a schizophrenic  patient, at first he also could not accept the fact that he is ill and he needs help, he was strongly denying his illness which cannot help him to heal. Eventually with the help of Gong Hyo Jin who played the role as his girlfriend and also a psychiatrist, Jo Insung accepted his flaws, accepted his illness in order to be cured. 

In conclusion just like in this drama, we are all flawed and sometimes we also need help from others, the acceptance of flaws and reaching out of help is not a negative nor an abnormal way of being a human being, we need to accept all of it to move on and move forward and most especially embracing this “flaws” is also a way of telling “i love you” to ourselves.

The Epitome of Healing

At some point, any pains, wounds or suffering can come to an end even though it’ll leave some scar and even though in the process you’ll feel there are no any chances. But just like in this drama, finding and freeing yourself can bring you not just into healing but also acceptance. We all can compare ourselves to Woo Joo, Dr. Lee and other patients in the story. All of them seems hopeless in healing and recovery, yet everything is a process and most especially if you’ll also learn to accept that you need to be fixed—-no, that you need to heal from the pain you were going through. This drama fulfills the doubts of others, yes you can be healed and yes, you also deserves to be happy. 

Father & Son 

Many can relate, many cannot, the deprived love coming from a father. It hurts to know that the reason Dr. Lee decided to take psychiatry is in order to understand his own father. Yet also hurts that his father gives out all those hatred and pain throughout the years because of his wife’s disappearance in their lives. There are plenty of things that both of them haven’t done together and regrets it in the end. Every scene with his father hurts so much, the pain in the eyes of both father and son, the regrets and “what ifs” were clearly shown in their faces. 

But nothing is too late, when there are still time even though it’s little spending it with him was the most precious thing you’ll see in this drama. 

Second Chances

Both Woo Joo and Dr. Lee needs seconds chances. Second chance to cure another border-line and fall in love again for Dr. Lee while second chance to open up, be healed, and trust again for Woo Joo. Everyone deserves to welcome second chances in their lives; may it be in love, healing, acceptance, and even forgiveness. Dr. Lee’s pain from his past buried and leave a deep wound within him; because of that welcoming another person that may lead to open and worsen his trauma may kill him inside. While Woo Joo stands as the second chance Dr. Lee needed, she needs to prove that she is different and that she deserves that chance to him. By healing each other pains, closing each other wounds, and recovering from the past shows that second chances can either hurt us more or heal us completely. But Wo Joo proves here, that second chances can be beautiful.