Wow…Interesting exploration of how mundane evil can be. I was shocked at how ML treated his daughter in the…
My feeling is that parents are human too, and that when unrelentingly rejected like that, can have moments of anger/resentment that they will forever regret later.
What I couldn't buy is that he left her in the car without locking it so she couldn't get out, though at five, maybe she figured that out. I wish the film had made it clear, how she went about getting out, and if he had locked the doors. If he did not, that seems highly unrealistic.
As bogus as the dad may have been, what he said to the wife about the girl feeling that way about him, having something to do with seeing how her mother regarded him, seemed to hit a nerve with the wife.
I like that everyone is shown to be flawed; no one is blameless.
Slow, but for me, worth sticking with. I liked that, in the end, I didn't get a firm answer to several questions I had. Asian films have taught me to be OK with that once in a while. After all, life is full of unanswered questions.
Two huge plot holes/implausibilities/impossibilities that took this from maybe a 9/10 to a 6.5/10 for me. I HATE when a film I'm loving gets ruined by such sloppy oversights. Still, I recommend the flick. Maybe you won't notice what I did. Both problems relate to the pivotal injury.
Kitamura Takumi is excellent in the lead role. Fun to see him tackling almost-adult roles. Mamoru/Hayashi Yuta is the spitting image of a younger Suda Masaki! He's also great in this part. Though it's a supporting role, this is Ayano Go's best work I've seen in a while. He got a bit buff for the part, so I was grateful for the partial nude scene. ;)
This movie was amazing.. just because u didn't like this it doesn't mean it's bad. Idk how u can give this a 4/10…
No, I'm not trans Why would anyone have to be trans to have empathy for and support trans people? I abhor bigotry and condescendingly bad art, regardless of who is being condescended to.
This movie was amazing.. just because u didn't like this it doesn't mean it's bad. Idk how u can give this a 4/10…
No, the movie is objectively bad. Embarrassingly so. As I wrote above, the way the surgery/aftercare is handled should piss off trans people; it's insulting.
I didn't say "trans people don't deserve good endings," nor did I say "queer joy is so unrealistic," etc. You're making shit up because you've got no coherent answer to what I actually wrote.
I won't engage you further, since you're putting words in my mouth that don't deserve a response. It seems you're all about pretending and delusional fantasies, reality excluded. Gay representation, joy, and happy endings in cinema are great when well done, and not great when badly done, as in this case.
Another fact-free Killer Knetz Klown, aching for a suicide.
"Just because a pedo wins every case doesn't mean it's the correct decision..." 1. Google "pedo." You don't know what it means. But you enjoy tossing it around loosely, anyway. 2. So, yeah, your outside perspective is more accurate than that of a judge in a courtroom who has actually seen and heard the "evidence." Got it. 3. What this means, of course, is that in the tiny minds of Knetz Killer Klowns such as yourself, once the accusation was made, KSH was guilty regardless of what a court ruled. Guilty if the court ruled him guilty, and guilty if a court ruled him NOT guilty. This is a perfect example of the KKK mentality that has led to dozens of Korean celebrity suicides over the last 25 years.
"I don't care about celebs personal lives, but I saw the evidence and that was enough. Those pictures, videos and voice recordings weren't fake." 1. If you "don't care," why did you go to the trouble of seeking out the "evidence?" You're lying. You care a lot. 2. Those pictures, videos, and recordings have been proven to be FAKE. Where the hell have you been?
"I don't give a damn about how successful he is or anyone else. If someone is guilty they should be punished." 1. Again, I call BS. You give a humongous "damn," but only about trashing the accused, not evaluating the facts, regardless of outcome. You're hot to self-righteously judge another celebrity and hopefully, get another suicide under your KKK belt. 2. The court has found several times that the "evidence" was manufactured, fake, bogus. He is not "guilty." Yet, you and all other drooling Knetz insist that he is, because it gives you hot wood to insist that he is.
"Wonder what you would say if this were a random dude you don't know." 1. I DON'T "know" him. 2. I am not a kdrama fan. Never watch them. I saw KSH in the films "Secretly Greatly," in which he is fantastic, and "Real," which is so bad I couldn't finish it. 3. Regardless of my not "knowing" KSH, it's obvious that he is a human being who deserves the humane treatment any human being should receive, including a presumption of innocence in legal matters. 4. What I would say if he were a "random dude," is exactly what I have been saying about KSH the drama/movie star.
One of my pet peeves is people like you jumping on the bandwagon of presumed guilt as it pertains to anyone, be they a celebrity or a random face in the crowd. This happens all over the world, but nowhere as frequently and insanely as in Korea.
I wonder what YOU would say if KSH were a "random dude you don't know." I'm guessing you wouldn't give a shit one way or the other.
Check out this list of Korean entertainers dead by suicide. Then, see if you can dig up some shred of your own humanity in response. Assuming a Knetz Killer Klown possesses humanity, of course. https://kisskh.at/list/1drDvBV3
would've been nice if the director got same treatment as ML, both were snitches
I was confused by that...who did the director betray the ML to? And why did the ML's right-hand-man turn on him at the end? By the last half hour, I was completely lost as to who was betraying whom and why. lol
You're such a crystal-clear person! There's probably no one in the world you can look at without being disdainful...
It's your self-righteous, fact-free mindset that's the problem.
Seems to me, the "moral" choice in this situation is to assume innocence until guilt has been absolutely proven. Who do you think you are, Jesus? Siddhartha Gautama? Krishna? Moses?
Another fact-free Killer Knetz Klown, aching for a suicide.
For doing what, Killer Knetz Klown? He's won every legal battle against the Youtube shithead and KSR's pscyho vampire family. Why are you so invested in believing a celebrity you know next to nothing about to be guilty of something nefarious? Tearing down successful people makes you feel better about your own pathetic self, that's why.
Killer Knetz Klowns always say "I don't want him/her to die." Your actions and behavior say otherwise.
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What I couldn't buy is that he left her in the car without locking it so she couldn't get out, though at five, maybe she figured that out. I wish the film had made it clear, how she went about getting out, and if he had locked the doors. If he did not, that seems highly unrealistic.
As bogus as the dad may have been, what he said to the wife about the girl feeling that way about him, having something to do with seeing how her mother regarded him, seemed to hit a nerve with the wife.
I like that everyone is shown to be flawed; no one is blameless.
I liked that, in the end, I didn't get a firm answer to several questions I had.
Asian films have taught me to be OK with that once in a while.
After all, life is full of unanswered questions.
7/10
I don't care HOW much sex there is. :)
Dropped
1/10
I HATE when a film I'm loving gets ruined by such sloppy oversights. Still, I recommend the flick. Maybe you won't notice what I did. Both problems relate to the pivotal injury.
Kitamura Takumi is excellent in the lead role. Fun to see him tackling almost-adult roles.
Mamoru/Hayashi Yuta is the spitting image of a younger Suda Masaki! He's also great in this part.
Though it's a supporting role, this is Ayano Go's best work I've seen in a while. He got a bit buff for the part, so I was grateful for the partial nude scene. ;)
6.5/10
Of course, it's my opinion. That's why I wrote it and posted it.
Why would anyone have to be trans to have empathy for and support trans people?
I abhor bigotry and condescendingly bad art, regardless of who is being condescended to.
Embarrassingly so.
As I wrote above, the way the surgery/aftercare is handled should piss off trans people; it's insulting.
I didn't say "trans people don't deserve good endings," nor did I say "queer joy is so unrealistic," etc. You're making shit up because you've got no coherent answer to what I actually wrote.
I won't engage you further, since you're putting words in my mouth that don't deserve a response.
It seems you're all about pretending and delusional fantasies, reality excluded.
Gay representation, joy, and happy endings in cinema are great when well done, and not great when badly done, as in this case.
Please grow some standards.
1. Google "pedo." You don't know what it means. But you enjoy tossing it around loosely, anyway.
2. So, yeah, your outside perspective is more accurate than that of a judge in a courtroom who has actually seen and heard the "evidence." Got it.
3. What this means, of course, is that in the tiny minds of Knetz Killer Klowns such as yourself, once the accusation was made, KSH was guilty regardless of what a court ruled. Guilty if the court ruled him guilty, and guilty if a court ruled him NOT guilty.
This is a perfect example of the KKK mentality that has led to dozens of Korean celebrity suicides over the last 25 years.
"I don't care about celebs personal lives, but I saw the evidence and that was enough. Those pictures, videos and voice recordings weren't fake."
1. If you "don't care," why did you go to the trouble of seeking out the "evidence?" You're lying. You care a lot.
2. Those pictures, videos, and recordings have been proven to be FAKE. Where the hell have you been?
"I don't give a damn about how successful he is or anyone else. If someone is guilty they should be punished."
1. Again, I call BS. You give a humongous "damn," but only about trashing the accused, not evaluating the facts, regardless of outcome. You're hot to self-righteously judge another celebrity and hopefully, get another suicide under your KKK belt.
2. The court has found several times that the "evidence" was manufactured, fake, bogus. He is not "guilty." Yet, you and all other drooling Knetz insist that he is, because it gives you hot wood to insist that he is.
"Wonder what you would say if this were a random dude you don't know."
1. I DON'T "know" him.
2. I am not a kdrama fan. Never watch them. I saw KSH in the films "Secretly Greatly," in which he is fantastic, and "Real," which is so bad I couldn't finish it.
3. Regardless of my not "knowing" KSH, it's obvious that he is a human being who deserves the humane treatment any human being should receive, including a presumption of innocence in legal matters.
4. What I would say if he were a "random dude," is exactly what I have been saying about KSH the drama/movie star.
One of my pet peeves is people like you jumping on the bandwagon of presumed guilt as it pertains to anyone, be they a celebrity or a random face in the crowd. This happens all over the world, but nowhere as frequently and insanely as in Korea.
I wonder what YOU would say if KSH were a "random dude you don't know." I'm guessing you wouldn't give a shit one way or the other.
Check out this list of Korean entertainers dead by suicide. Then, see if you can dig up some shred of your own humanity in response. Assuming a Knetz Killer Klown possesses humanity, of course.
https://kisskh.at/list/1drDvBV3
Always charismatic and expressive, without overdoing it.
Fight scenes were quite good.
The film could have been cut down by at least 20 minutes, maybe more.
The thing with the GF got draggy.
By the last half-hour, was clueless as to who was betraying who to whom and why...
6/10
And why did the ML's right-hand-man turn on him at the end?
By the last half hour, I was completely lost as to who was betraying whom and why. lol
Seems to me, the "moral" choice in this situation is to assume innocence until guilt has been absolutely proven. Who do you think you are, Jesus? Siddhartha Gautama? Krishna? Moses?
You're not them.
He's won every legal battle against the Youtube shithead and KSR's pscyho vampire family.
Why are you so invested in believing a celebrity you know next to nothing about to be guilty of something nefarious?
Tearing down successful people makes you feel better about your own pathetic self, that's why.
Killer Knetz Klowns always say "I don't want him/her to die." Your actions and behavior say otherwise.