Antonella

The drama is called "Mouse" and the mouse is Ba-reum. Ba-reum is a lab mice in an experiment. Yohan, before losing consciousness, tells Ba-reum "We are lab mice." The series could have been called "The Mouse," but perhaps that would have been too obvious an indication that the protagonist is a lab mice.

Ciao, "The Hand of God" è un film italiano, non americano. Il titolo originale è "È stata la mano di Dio" ("It was the hand of God"). Il film è stato prodotto e girato in Italia in lingua italiana e in dialetto napoletano. Regista: Paolo Sorrentino.

Many people guessed who the serial killer was at first glance, but the drama's topic is not the simple investigation to find out who the killer is. The main topic is what would happen to a psychopath if he suddenly became empathetic. The secondary topic is whether psychopaths are born or made.

So you never knew that the beheader's son was actually Bareum who was switched in the cradle with the nurse's son, Yohan, and that the serial killer was actually Bareum and those memories are his, not Yohan's. You couldn't see that Bareum, convinced he's a good person, tries to take over Yohan's brain, starts behaving well and even asks Bong-yi to wait until he's completely healed and they share a tender kiss on a bench. And instead, one bad day all the memories come back and he realizes that he killed the priest and her grandmother and that there will never be redemption for him. He discovers that a secret government organization has been keeping an eye on him since birth and that it has manipulated him to trigger the outbreak of violence in him (hence the title of the drama: the mouse is him). Finally he turns himself in and kills his father in prison, a few months before dying from the after-effects of the brain surgery, and never forgiven. I skipped half of the stuff, in case you still want to continue the drama.

I think the girl who crushes the mouse is the journalist, or she is a psychopath he meets only once in his life. As for the inheritance of the psychopathy gene, it is not absolute. You can have the gene even if both your parents do not have it. You could have received the gene from your great-grandfather. The beheader 's wife and the nurse know that their children could become murderers, but they also realize that neither of them will ever have the courage to kill their own child. For this reason, they secretly exchange children (Yohan is only a few weeks younger than Bareum), with the agreement to kill each other's child, in case they become dangerous psychopaths. For this reason, both of them, as adults, will tell the beheader's wife that she is no better than him. It is not an adoption, but a cradle swap.

I think your calculations about the dates are incorrect. At the beginning of the series Bong-yi states that she is 17, presumably that is the international age. The series does not clarify what the time frame of the current story is, but I assume it is a couple of years. So the story begins in 2020 and Ba-reum has turned 25 in January, so he is eight years older than the girl. In fact, right here somewhere an English user wrote that she was annoyed by the age gap between the two young people. A year after the story began, Bong-yi's rapist is released from prison after ten years, and she is now actually 18.

However, it has already been noted that the story's setting in the past is not precise as to the age of the characters. Yo-han is supposed to be sixteen when he saves Bong-yi, but the actor is clearly much younger. The two child actors (Ba-reum and Yo-han) are certainly not the same age. The same actor was used to play Ba-reum at age eleven and at age sixteen. It is also unclear whether the two children met before or after the massacre of the nurse's family.

Also, regarding the various mice that are seen in the series, about the mouse that little Ba-reum throws into the snake's cage, he had just found it, and it is not a mouse "inherited" from his father. But I don't remember exactly under what circumstances you see a mouse with pierced ears.

I would add that it is equally unlikely that there is only one prison and also it is unlikely the confusion about which policemen can enter and exit the prison, it is far from how a prison is actually managed.

In the first season of the series "Hospital Playlist" (2020), there is a subplot about the separated father of one of the four good doctors, the protagonists, who lives with another woman and has a child with her. The doctor apparently has never even seen his half-brother. The four good doctors all agree that she is a bi*ch and shouldn't even show up at the hospital, although it is common ground that the doctor's separated mother is a horrible person. When the man dies, their biggest concern is that he may have left something to his biological son.

In the Asian view, your family is an integral part of your being. Every individual is characterized by the environment in which he or she was born and raised, sharing the good and the bad. For this reason, they simply take it for granted that children born out of wedlock will be social outcasts incapable of doing anything good, that children of wealthy families will be honest workers full of good qualities and very respectable, that children of delinquents are themselves riffraff, that children of the poor must humbly thank for every job opportunity they receive, etc.

I too had strong suspicions about him, and I read others too. I think this is due to the skill of the screenwriter and director who were able to convey a negative sensation, perception and emotion linked to that character, even if apparently he was not doing anything suspicious.

I am reading it today, I have seen nine episodes so far. Thanks for your review.

It seems to me that at the beginning of the drama the age difference was she 17 he 25, I don't find anything disagreeable in this. People today are too obsessed with the psychosis of the older one who abuses the younger one, could this be a new genetic psychosis?

Honestly, what you call the lack of research is a constant in K-dramas (unlike C-dramas). The scenes that take place in hospitals are always far-fetched, with people coming in and out pretending to be doctors and they seem more like a hotel with no keys on the doors. Any procedure for collecting and evaluating evidence of a crime is completely ignored, inspections without gloves, policemen putting stuff in their pockets; and yes, I admit, this drama in particular with the evidence in the boxes under the desk is the worst. Equally, it is very common to see policemen carrying out investigations and searches illegally and alone, after dinner, usually in dark places where no sane person would go. In sci-fi dramas, see When the Stars Gossip, the scientific procedures are far-fetched and embarrassing: Star Trek in the 60s was much more believable.

There are two types of plot twists. One is the one that makes you jump because you really didn't expect it; for example, in the movie "Coherence", the moment you realize that one among them is a double, you are really shocked, because nothing in the plot made you think something like that. The other type is the plot twist that is emotionally prepared, not logically prepare d. It is not a reasoning based on the plot, but it is an emotion that the screenwriter was able to convey (and he must be really good to do it), which emotionally prepared you for a scene that had no foreshadowing in the plot. When Bareum approached the bird's cage, in the hospital room, I thought "now he's going to kill it". There was nothing in the plot that foreshadowed it, but there were two images that made me resonate a concern: the scene in which Ko is about to run over Bareum with the bird, and says "what are you doing to this bird?" (Bareum is hidden by the hood of the car, because he is crouched); and the scene that ends the sixth episode, with the two wounded men lying in a symmetrical and opposite position. This is an expressive technique of cinematic language: if you introduce an element of tension into a scene, the viewer will be on alert. For example, if the protagonist cuts his finger while cooking and blood comes out, it is a premonition that something violent is about to happen: it is not a logical connection, but an emotional one.

I gave it a 10 for the emotions it made me feel.

I don't agree with your review but you're right about one thing: Hae Ryun was very aware that there was tension between Jun Mo and Eui Jeong, but this crumb of the story was dropped without giving it any follow-up.

I really compliment you on the parallel between Gi Cheul and Jay Gatsby, which I totally approve of. You were also very astute in observing that the same woman (Eui Jeong/Daisy Fay) is the driving force behind both men's ambition to achieve high social position.

"Not a lot of noticeable characters beside these".
I was extremely impressed by Choi Jeong Bae (the actor Lim Seong Jae is phenomenal). He was right about everything and he was the one who was pushed into the corner the most until he was removed, even though he was probably the most faithful. He is the only one who understood from the beginning that Jun Mo and Eui Jeong both had something wrong; if Gi Cheul had listened to his intuition about them from the beginning, he wouldn't have lost everything. Although Jeong Bae stole from Gi Cheul, his loyalty was far greater than everyone else's, so he is another character who has great ambivalence. Honestly, it is not clear to me why Seo massacres him. He is also the one who finally realizes that Gi Cheul is trying to screw the whole team and abandon the drug dealing. I did not quite understand whether the drugs sold by Jeong bae were stolen from Gi Cheul or the Japanese, in which case he would be the cause of all Gi Cheul's troubles with the Japanese. I was a little perplexed in the scene where he punctures the tire... it is not clear whether he is involved or not in what happens that evening, maybe it is a plot hole.

"he has lost his dream, his crew, and his hyung (Seungho)"
Who is Seungho?

I too wrote in my review that the female characters and the interactions of the three couples should have been entrusted to a female screenwriter.