She always looks different in her shows tbh since legend of the blue sea. Most probably plastic surgery and botox…
Maybe, but I don't think it's even possible for someone to have surgery so frequently lol.
I think it's aging and her looking very different when she changes her styling and makeup. She kind of looked like 3 different people in her recent show. Even comparing LOTBS and Stranger, she looked very different.
After re-watching, it became clearer what the "truth" likely was. This is my theory: Basically what Sarah explains at the end actually happened (except she is Sarah and not Mijeong), and she did get caught by the loan shark boss with her hands full of blood. Loan shark boss gets questioned by the police and when detective says "Sarah Kim isn't dead", he realizes she had attempted to fake her death and his statement exposed her. Therefore, he returns her favour and removes her kidney sample, letting her get away again. I don't think they were in cahoots as he wouldn't have exposed her kidney transplant if that were the case.
Ultimately it was about a hungry woman who loved her goal more than herself, and lost her identity. Not the most original premise, but a good execution. There were many in-your-face metaphors that somehow worked. Sarah Kim is complex and has humanity under her many layers. Shin Hye Sun delivered a great performance that elevated the role.
What's with kdramas shoehorning body swaps / alter egos / split personalities into their plots nowadays? Sure it's cool to see the actors play more than one role, but it is truly getting old and feels unnecessary most of the time. Have writers forgotten how to write a good story without these tropes? I hope this trend ends soon...
I've watched SHS for years but on this poster she kinda looks like Jisoo from Blackpink upon first glance. Also the teaser is great, crossing fingers for a good thriller 🤞
The release seems to be brought forward to Q1 (likely Feb) as the leads are about to start promoting.
That might be true, though idt Monthly Boyfriend has announced any promotion with the leads yet. I would assume promotions for it will start earlier since it has Jisoo. Pretty sure both shows wrapped up filming around the same time.
Honestly, everything else in this movie is tolerable but the core premise is just... weird, if not disturbing. If the world ends, the only way to let the human race live on is to create artificial humans powered by AI, and let them find a way to survive elsewhere in space? Are we sure that preserving a technical replication of human consciousness is really letting us live on? In some ways, the ending is kind of horrifying. Who knows if the FL's AI clone has developed a separate consciousness of its own? And if it did, you bet the first thing it might do is to kill the other humans in space for putting it through such torture.
I'd say if the world ends, we should accept our fate and let nature take its course. We have done enough damage to this world lol.
In all seriousness, I think the movie tried to be something different and was overly ambitious, but ended up falling flat on its face. This is yet another science fiction work from SK that suffers from the same old mistakes from its predecessors: over-reliance on sentimentality, a poorly laid out scientific foundation and nonsensical events that defy logic.
I can't be the only one who thinks the way the case in eps 3 to 4 unfolded was a huge mess that barely made any sense? There was a clear and important case to be made on the hospital neglecting the mother's medical needs and consent. Instead, they focused on something completely different, which just made me scratch my head. Is this a court case or a moral / philosophical debate? And suddenly the whole thing is "resolved" with the chairman's noblesse oblige. No one was condemned despite the clear signs of problems in the hospital. That was completely unsatisfactory no matter how emotional they were trying to portray the adoption scene, because none of the main problem was actually resolved...
In fact, the adoption felt out of nowhere and even inappropriate. I don't think what the mother needs is a random rich stranger offering to be her parent, she actually needs financial and emotional help, plus access to treatment for her deteriorating mental health. However, since the adoption is the only decent option she has, she is essentially being forced to take it regardless of whether she actually wants it. That just doesn't sit right with me.
This is definitely better than your average mystery thriller, it keeps your attention throughout with some twists and turns, but some parts were a little excessive and contrived. Which is expected in any thriller, but these parts somewhat diminished my appreciation of the show as a whole. Nevertheless, one of the things I liked was that the show conveyed and acknowledged how bias and prejudice can have brutal effects. I think the cast all pulled off the layered characters that had different sides to them under the surface. The show also managed to intertwine two separate cases together well without becoming convoluted.
I think it's aging and her looking very different when she changes her styling and makeup. She kind of looked like 3 different people in her recent show. Even comparing LOTBS and Stranger, she looked very different.
I'd say if the world ends, we should accept our fate and let nature take its course. We have done enough damage to this world lol.
In all seriousness, I think the movie tried to be something different and was overly ambitious, but ended up falling flat on its face. This is yet another science fiction work from SK that suffers from the same old mistakes from its predecessors: over-reliance on sentimentality, a poorly laid out scientific foundation and nonsensical events that defy logic.
In fact, the adoption felt out of nowhere and even inappropriate. I don't think what the mother needs is a random rich stranger offering to be her parent, she actually needs financial and emotional help, plus access to treatment for her deteriorating mental health. However, since the adoption is the only decent option she has, she is essentially being forced to take it regardless of whether she actually wants it. That just doesn't sit right with me.