Please know that the movie is NOTHING like the actual material
Know that I am not attacking anyone, I am just saying that as an adaptation it is bad. An adaptation should be as true to the original as it can be (reason for why it is an adaptation). That is not what this is. It has gutted what Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint is and has stuffed its insides with straw.
ORV is supposed to be about being a love letter to readers and to the novel medium. The movie has taken out many details that lessen the dimension of characters or outright rewrites their character. Yoo Sangah is a woman who flips what it means to be a good female character. She can be both a kind person and someone who will not hesitate to put her foot down. She is on the subway because her manager is creepy and wants to drive her home, so he steals her bike that she takes to get to work to try and make that happen. She is constantly harassed for being a beautiful woman and constantly under minded for being a woman. Jung Heewon was never mentioned in Dokja's novel and he was surprised to find out that an extra turned out to be as powerful as she is. The reason why she is traumatized when Dokja finds her is because she was nearly raped by another group of survivors. Kim Dokja would not bully someone to try and avoid being bullied himself. He is always at the bottom of the school social rank because his mother published a book on how she killed her abusive husband, Kim Dokja is known in the school as a "murderer's son". Dokja's mother is not sick or a single mom, she was married to an abusive man and killed him in retaliation and was taken to prison because of it. Dokja clings onto the novel because he literally had no one on his side, he would kill himself if it wasn't for that novel. That is also why he would NEVER badmouth the author of the novel. Just please understand that the hate for the movie, THE MOVIE AND DIRECTOR (not actors, they were just doing their jobs), is warranted from ORV fans because this movie is barely close to replicating the original novel.
ORV is supposed to be about being a love letter to readers and to the novel medium. The movie has taken out many details that lessen the dimension of characters or outright rewrites their character. Yoo Sangah is a woman who flips what it means to be a good female character. She can be both a kind person and someone who will not hesitate to put her foot down. She is on the subway because her manager is creepy and wants to drive her home, so he steals her bike that she takes to get to work to try and make that happen. She is constantly harassed for being a beautiful woman and constantly under minded for being a woman. Jung Heewon was never mentioned in Dokja's novel and he was surprised to find out that an extra turned out to be as powerful as she is. The reason why she is traumatized when Dokja finds her is because she was nearly raped by another group of survivors. Kim Dokja would not bully someone to try and avoid being bullied himself. He is always at the bottom of the school social rank because his mother published a book on how she killed her abusive husband, Kim Dokja is known in the school as a "murderer's son". Dokja's mother is not sick or a single mom, she was married to an abusive man and killed him in retaliation and was taken to prison because of it. Dokja clings onto the novel because he literally had no one on his side, he would kill himself if it wasn't for that novel. That is also why he would NEVER badmouth the author of the novel. Just please understand that the hate for the movie, THE MOVIE AND DIRECTOR (not actors, they were just doing their jobs), is warranted from ORV fans because this movie is barely close to replicating the original novel.
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