This movie has so many layers I would say its one of the most complex/tightly written movies from SKorea in many years. The 10 year old girls in here might find it boring but hell yeah what an entertaining movie!
Even after it was finished, I still don't know what it was all about.. The story seemed all over the place. Lee…
Was it really that hard to follow the plot for you guys? I thought the story itself was very simplistic and easy to understand. Some unanswered questions though that they for sure will answer in a second season if there is one. It did pretty well for a tving drama and was mostly well recieved in SKorea. Similar viewership ratings as for example yumi's cells + everyone that watched it on amazon prime.
But yeah this drama is not that masterpiece we all expected after the initial trailer, still like I wrote before I think people are way too harsh on it. There are many worse dramas out there that are rated higher on this site. I mostly watched it for the awesome action scenes - badass choreography the quality of the CGI was amazing for a korean tvseries as well. Imagine all the work that went into just putting all of this together. Cinematography was amazing as well, technically a very high quality production but yeah the script could have been a bit tighter not gonna argue there, but I think it was a good drama. And Kim Nam Gil has probably never looked hotter before 🤣 he was the perfect choice for Van!
For me nothing can justify cheating on your husband/wife, nothing, its disgusting 😠If you need to live out your animalistic lusts with someone else you should just be honest about it and leave your current partner, no secrets and no excuses. End of story.
If he has problems with drugs he needs medical help, not being humiliated by media/netizens, or be thrown in prison. If not, adults should be able to do whatever they want with their bodies as long as no one else get hurt. But I know this isnt realistic, just my own personal opinion. What if he was having some kind of chronic pain and was desperate and therefor tried all kind of substances/medicines? He has done some amazing roles while this apparantly was going on, a junkie wouldn't be able to do that.
However, SKorea in particular is so stupid - jailing people over weed, for example TOP - when its legal or unenforced in sooo many other countries (hell, even legal in Thailand!), and of course media blew it up as a national top news and netizens bashed him like he had committed the biggest sin on earth, like he was a serial rapist and murderer or something. Ugh. All this WHILE they romanticize alcoholism like no one else WHICH is a much more dangerous, life ruining and destructive drug than weed. Like others have said in most (or way too many) kdramas they are getting wasted all the time and some even show like its a good way to cope with stress. I find this disgusting. Alcohol should be a schedule II drug together with for example methamphetamine, fentanyl and cocaine. Alcohol is actually one of the few drugs where you can die from simply trying to quit it, and I wonder how many drunk husbands hit their wives and kids everyday because of it. NO other drugs lead to domestic violence like alcohol...
Then count in having highest suicide rate, pretty high rape statistics for an eastern asian country, one of the worst and most toxic cancel cultures on the planet, all the plastic surgeries, prostitution parlors in every corner, all the highly educated people who can't get work in Korea and have to escape the country (what a good and well planned society...), talents/idols who aren't treated like humans with zero freedom, talents/idols who commit actual crimes that the agencies bribe the cops/media not to arrest/let it get reported in news (and the person gets away with the crime and continues to work as usually), etc ... the list goes on. Sure South Korea looks cool and flashy on the outside with all those kpop videos and all that, but its a pretty creepy country that has alot to work on.
I think people are too harsh on this one. In general I think Kdramas have dipped in quality a lot since Squid Game and kdramas became super popular in the west. Only a few really good ones recently, you can feel the switch to quantity over quality. Same can be said about kpop as well which used to be better a few years ago. Well, Island was a good series for the genre. An okay plot and writing (like how often do you see american high concept fantasy dramas being well written recently?), cool action scenes better than most korean blockbuster movies, good cinematography and good acting.
The only thing I can complain about is that cutting it in half was a stupid idea. It kind of killed the momentum. Other than that don't care about all the negativity. Just turn on Island and enjoy - its badass from the first scene!
Reminds me of the talented Robert Downey Jr. His drug problems held him back. Its hard to defend or depend upon…
Imo adults should be allowed to do whatever what they want with their bodies, wether its drugs or suicide. But the world is as it is and it cant be helped, I hope he can come back to acting one day. His role in Chicago Typewriter is so iconic and amazing.
Such a filler drama. Paper thin plot that has zero surprises. I don't know what to say about this new wave of SKorea trying to make "feminist" dramas, not that I am against it - girl power for the win but I feel they are kind of misunderstanding all of it, lol.
But yeah this drama is not that masterpiece we all expected after the initial trailer, still like I wrote before I think people are way too harsh on it. There are many worse dramas out there that are rated higher on this site. I mostly watched it for the awesome action scenes - badass choreography the quality of the CGI was amazing for a korean tvseries as well. Imagine all the work that went into just putting all of this together. Cinematography was amazing as well, technically a very high quality production but yeah the script could have been a bit tighter not gonna argue there, but I think it was a good drama.
And Kim Nam Gil has probably never looked hotter before 🤣 he was the perfect choice for Van!
However, SKorea in particular is so stupid - jailing people over weed, for example TOP - when its legal or unenforced in sooo many other countries (hell, even legal in Thailand!), and of course media blew it up as a national top news and netizens bashed him like he had committed the biggest sin on earth, like he was a serial rapist and murderer or something. Ugh. All this WHILE they romanticize alcoholism like no one else WHICH is a much more dangerous, life ruining and destructive drug than weed. Like others have said in most (or way too many) kdramas they are getting wasted all the time and some even show like its a good way to cope with stress. I find this disgusting. Alcohol should be a schedule II drug together with for example methamphetamine, fentanyl and cocaine. Alcohol is actually one of the few drugs where you can die from simply trying to quit it, and I wonder how many drunk husbands hit their wives and kids everyday because of it. NO other drugs lead to domestic violence like alcohol...
Then count in having highest suicide rate, pretty high rape statistics for an eastern asian country, one of the worst and most toxic cancel cultures on the planet, all the plastic surgeries, prostitution parlors in every corner, all the highly educated people who can't get work in Korea and have to escape the country (what a good and well planned society...), talents/idols who aren't treated like humans with zero freedom, talents/idols who commit actual crimes that the agencies bribe the cops/media not to arrest/let it get reported in news (and the person gets away with the crime and continues to work as usually), etc ... the list goes on.
Sure South Korea looks cool and flashy on the outside with all those kpop videos and all that, but its a pretty creepy country that has alot to work on.
In general I think Kdramas have dipped in quality a lot since Squid Game and kdramas became super popular in the west. Only a few really good ones recently, you can feel the switch to quantity over quality. Same can be said about kpop as well which used to be better a few years ago. Well, Island was a good series for the genre. An okay plot and writing (like how often do you see american high concept fantasy dramas being well written recently?), cool action scenes better than most korean blockbuster movies, good cinematography and good acting.
The only thing I can complain about is that cutting it in half was a stupid idea. It kind of killed the momentum. Other than that don't care about all the negativity. Just turn on Island and enjoy - its badass from the first scene!