A person on Instagram explained the golf ball scene. "It’s a scene that shows how low Chu Sang Ah has to lower herself to get what she wants. The show depicts how the rich & powerful bully people and it’s really sickening. I hope Lee Yang Mi's gets punished for humiliating people this way."
So far all of the scenes that people have said are unnecessary, shock value, etc., are there for a purpose. Threatening to use people's perceived "weaknesses" to destroy their careers if they don't do as they're told is blackmail. Am I the only one on MDL who really, really wants the "climax" to involve the other three leads joining forces to take Yang Mi down hard?
Climax is about the link between politics and the entertainment industry and how actresses are treated like bargaining…
Imo, shock is necessary in a drama whose purpose is to reveal something...well, shocking and that's perhaps unknown to many k-drama viewers but that goes on a lot in politics and the entertainment industry. And not just in Korea or the West. I think the 2 A-list actresses who signed on to this drama knew exactly what they were getting into but have probably endured some of the same attempts at exploiting them or knew other young women who weren't as strong or confident as they and whose lives were destroyed just because they wanted to be actresses.
This drama is pretty much a westernised makjang trying to be gritty and "real" but forgetting to be entertaining…
Climax is about the link between politics and the entertainment industry and how actresses are treated like bargaining chips and pieces of meat. This is not news, but it's never been explored this graphically in a k-drama before. I doubt the drama was meant to be entertaining, Kbeauty. Was anyone entertained by students being abused and committing suicide in the school bullying k-dramas? Were the abuse scenes there just for shock value? All of the scenes that people who hate the drama are complaining about in Climax are there for a reason--to show how Sang-Ah's private life is being used by a master manipulator to control who wins an election.
Perhaps you're not getting the message because you're not interested in what some actresses have had to endure and why some took their own lives rather than endure it and the overwhelming shame, or the rancid connection between politics and the k-entertainment industry.
Ha Ji Won, Nana already acted in nude scenes in their career. Why would their fans disappoint if they act again…
Maybe it isn't their fans who are making the fuss. And "nude" is in the viewer's imagination. Like, I see her bare shoulders in a medium close shot, so she must be totally nude.
South Korean production companies no longer make 100% of their dramas for Korean viewers like they used to. Otherwise, Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, etc. wouldn't be paying big bucks to license them to the extent they are now. Ha Ji-won returning to acting, showing a bit of skin, and pretending to get it on with a girl will only increase her already huge international fan base. And I'm willing to bet that those toxic netizens who plan to take this opportunity to cancel her are going to be very disappointed when it has no real effect.
Their chemistry together is just chef’s kiss 🤌🏻Two seasoned actors just gives so much sense. I love mature…
You're so right. She also said that their scenes together required very little rehearsal and a very few re-takes. Actually, some her scenes required so much emotion that it's fortunate that she didn't have do them multiple times.
Cdramas have always been better. They just didn't have the same exposure as the Kdramas and KPOP also played a…
True! I'm glad you mentioned that fact, which k-pop fans have trouble accepting. Also interesting, until Jang Nara found a way to be a k-pop idol AND act in k-dramas, the talent agencies prevented k-pop singers from doing both.
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So far all of the scenes that people have said are unnecessary, shock value, etc., are there for a purpose. Threatening to use people's perceived "weaknesses" to destroy their careers if they don't do as they're told is blackmail. Am I the only one on MDL who really, really wants the "climax" to involve the other three leads joining forces to take Yang Mi down hard?
All of the scenes that people who hate the drama are complaining about in Climax are there for a reason--to show how Sang-Ah's private life is being used by a master manipulator to control who wins an election.