MilicaB

I am not into creepy but I wanted to watch this kdrama because it is an iconic classic and also because I thought it will help me understand abused children and how they turn calous and heartless and also I wanted to understand a little bit more about psychopaths. I am dealing with organized crime trying to steal my apartment via the corrupt court system in Hawaii. So... I watched this.

This kdrama is TERRIFYING. The concepts are TERRIFYING. It is about killers who enjoy killing, their families, and how their killings impacted their children and families.

The moral of the story is that a child subject to extreme abuse will likely grow to be a very closed off adult. It's Ok not to be OK and this kdrama both have a parent killer who trains a child to be a killer. Also, Quen of Tears is another drama where parent hates the child. The child goes basically insane and becomes heartless.

The interesting part in those dramas is that, if a child receives SOME love from somewhere, or is somehow strong enough, the child will not become a criminal and will have a relatively normal life. HOWEVER, so far we did not see a child who escaped severe mental and emotional damage. Well. bc this is dramas so we need a child with problems LOL but still. Chances of being 100% normal are almost zero.

So these kdramas explain children on drugs, trouble, becoming navy seals, assassins, criminals, etc etc etc Children just get swayed and shut down by their parents and their moral, mental and emotional compass STOPS. The worse the parent, the worse the child, seems like.
And yeah some bad kids already have those tendencies like the serial killer #2 and his family from this kdrama.

This kdrama asks a very fundamental question: if the serial killer #2 did not meet the serial killer #1 when he was a child, WOULD he have gone off the deep end? He already had tendencies... as a child, he killed a dog and then lied about it... so ... he would have had done something bad somewhere along the lines... ? would he? sooner or later.. ? but then he ran into the adult serial killer, who took him and trained him. Finally the kid killed the adult... LOL

I do not need to understand these people. I just need to understand how to keep myself protected and them far away from me.

Lee Gang Ji is masterfully acting as a child of a monster, a father who turned his son into such a hearthless child who then learns to defrost and love because his wife loves him. HE becomes a good parent.

The actor who did the father is now Silla CEO in drama "For eagle brothers" and at first I was shuddering every time I saw him, remembering his role in this drama. He was SCARY. Extremely convincingly SCARY. We never saw him DO anything... but we saw hm stand there as a ghost egging his son to kill... and we saw the cages he built hinting at what he did... and we saw clips of him talking about his "art of killing" - so that dude was SUPER SCARY TERRIFYIING. This drama also shows what he was doing and that was scary too. It is a deep dive into showing what mentally ill people do.

So to meet him again as Silla dad in "For Eagle Brothers" was ... unpleasant LOL he is a villain there too ... but more in the white collar crime arena.

I think the spooky part is the parents of the other serial killer, parents who kept lying on behalf of their son, and son serial killer for enjoyment, who did not kill his father and mother. And we learn his father is essentially a killer himself, just camouflaged as a hospital director...

The woman who loved Lee Gang Ji;s character is also a tricky role bc he came NOT to believe him and bc of it, he lost his memory... good thing so they could start from scratch. I AM NOT SURE WHAT OTHER PLOT OR ENDING IT COULD HAVE BEEN, everything was just too crazy and not easily fixable. I cannot imagine a plot with rosey easy overcoming...