the king kills his body guard (who is ordered to impregnate the king's wife, but later falls in love with her…
It's clear you are deliberately being a jerk about this, but I'll try anyway: Yes, it is a 2008 movie, but there will always be people coming to this page before they watch it for the first time. This is true for thousands of older films and series. People discover and watch them for the first time five, ten, 20 years later.
You think you're clever, but you're not. Put your spoilers behind a spoiler button.
I feel bad for these Asian actors, who have to struggle to answer interview questions without saying much out of fear of being canceled by Knetz, should they say an interesting word, that will promptly be misinterpreted. Their phrasing and word choices, carefully vetted by their agency, come off as childish and often, a bit dim-witted.
Love So Ji Sub though, and glad to see him back in another show.
Just finished my fifth watch of this film. It gets better, deeper, richer with every viewing.
Commenters here making black/white pronouncements about the characters, motivations, actions, and most of all, about who is most to "blame," are too modern-minded to appreciate this movie, which is about as close as it comes to being a "masterpiece" (a word tossed around like confetti here on MDL) as it gets.
In truth, I think I watched several scenes through more fingers, and wept more this time than I did during my first viewing, and that's saying a lot because the first time I kept falling out of my chair. There is no more gasp-inducing, dramatic scene in cinema than the penultimate one in the library about 3/4 way in. My god.
I can't understand one thing..! 1.He (The King) was a Gay..! and he desperately wants a Heir..! for his throne.!…
Multiple exclamation marks don't make your assertions any more coherent or your homophobia any less clear. As I mentioned above, movies like this aren't for people who think in as simple terms as you do.
I can't understand one thing..! 1.He (The King) was a Gay..! and he desperately wants a Heir..! for his throne.!…
There is no such thing as "a gay."
Did you think the Chief looked "helpless" in those early make-out scenes with the King? Ever hear of bisexuality, or the fluidity of the sexual continuum?
This flick is far too layered and complicated for your uncomplicated mind.
how is he humping his horse flawlessly after that incident?! unbelievable timeline by the second-half XD
I think it had been a few months by then. Remember, she was barely _________ at the time of the wild-ass library scene. When he returned, she was as big as a house.
"Regardless of the nudity and the sexually explicit scenes, the film is worth watching. It's too painfully awe-aspiring."
What do you mean, "regardless?" The nudity and sex are big pluses! :D
I just finished my fifth watch of this film in about as many years. It gets better every time. I find significant details I missed before with each new viewing. One of the best films of all time, in my book. 11/10+
Ahhh...yes, I recall a stupid freakout a couple of years back about some bowls not being precisely accurate to the movie's time frame, along with another petty detail no one would have noticed if not for the insane Knetz. The show was canceled. That was early in my days of following Asian dramas/cinema and I thought it was freaking crazy that a major production that was nearly done airing was shut down mid-broadcast by such petty silliness.
I have come to blame the producers/broadcasters even more than the Knetz for this phenomenon. If they would grow a backbone and ignore these nut jobs on the Internet, broadcast their shows as planned, and be done with it, after a few rounds of that sort of response, the knetz would be drained of influence. But every time a company bows to this craziness, it empowers them more.
With rare exceptions, I do not watch C-dramas or films. It's my own little boycott in protest of their crazy-ass gay content ban, which is disgraceful and bigoted.
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I have watched this film five times.
You think you're clever, but you're not. Put your spoilers behind a spoiler button.
Love So Ji Sub though, and glad to see him back in another show.
Commenters here making black/white pronouncements about the characters, motivations, actions, and most of all, about who is most to "blame," are too modern-minded to appreciate this movie, which is about as close as it comes to being a "masterpiece" (a word tossed around like confetti here on MDL) as it gets.
In truth, I think I watched several scenes through more fingers, and wept more this time than I did during my first viewing, and that's saying a lot because the first time I kept falling out of my chair. There is no more gasp-inducing, dramatic scene in cinema than the penultimate one in the library about 3/4 way in. My god.
11/10
Did you think the Chief looked "helpless" in those early make-out scenes with the King? Ever hear of bisexuality, or the fluidity of the sexual continuum?
This flick is far too layered and complicated for your uncomplicated mind.
Shades of gray, like the real world.
What do you mean, "regardless?" The nudity and sex are big pluses! :D
I just finished my fifth watch of this film in about as many years. It gets better every time. I find significant details I missed before with each new viewing. One of the best films of all time, in my book. 11/10+
I have come to blame the producers/broadcasters even more than the Knetz for this phenomenon. If they would grow a backbone and ignore these nut jobs on the Internet, broadcast their shows as planned, and be done with it, after a few rounds of that sort of response, the knetz would be drained of influence. But every time a company bows to this craziness, it empowers them more.
With rare exceptions, I do not watch C-dramas or films. It's my own little boycott in protest of their crazy-ass gay content ban, which is disgraceful and bigoted.