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Bravo.

THIS

"Only possible in SK to continue pushing celebrities to severe depression and death. Only a nation of adult children needs their celebrities to be role models. Doesn't look like they'd grow up any time soon."

Thank you for your spot-on comment. I'm not able to be as dispassionate and straightforward as you, so I appreciate your calm, considered way of hitting the nail on the head with your words.

For my reading enjoyment can you share a link to the headline about "we are becoming too lenient towards wrongdoers," please. Yoo is my boy so I need to stay on top of the ways Knetz are trying to kill him. I knew they'd go into overdrive when his new movie "The Match" began to blow every other film out of the water at the box office. It's setting records and the can't stand it! lol

GO YOO! GO KSH!

The world is watching Korea make an ass of itself again with its vicious, sadistic torture of a celebrity.

50,000 signatures, hmmm...that means. 0.001% of the Korean public wants this panty-sniffing, suicide-inducing law put into effect.

0.001%

You Killer Knetz Klowns have a lot of work to do.

lol psycho

lol

Bingo! lol

Of course, I often am accused of being unemployed, having no life, needing to "touch grass," being a loser, etc. because I dare to frequently post and defend my opinions here. What the Killer Suicide Knetz don't like to hear is that I am self-employed and do wtf I want when the f**k I want to do it. :)

Which is different than running to the bathroom during office or factory work hours to fanatically post insane, libelous falsehoods about a celebrity in an effort to drive them to suicide.

Tia, you're simply another crazed, sadistic Killer Knetz with no life, obsessed with policing celebrity behavior and driving them to suicide. No one cares what you think is weird.
No one cares that you think he "did it."
Y'all are just very psycho.
Seek therapy and choose to reflect on your own behavior rather than your fantasies of what you believe KSH did or didn't do.

I wish you well.

Good points, well-made. I felt it needed a lot of editing. There was too much repetition and "running in circles" as you say.

That said, I saw some nice, original stuff too.

Some weak writing there.

I love a good slow burn, but this one dragged in the middle. A half-hour cut would do it good.

wow. Lots of remarkably original stuff going on here.

I don't say this often because I enjoy long movies, but this one would have benefited from judicious editing. A good 30 minutes could come off and it would be a much better film. I had to force myself to keep going through the second, draggy half-hour, after which it picked up again. The director was too much in love with everything he'd done and forgot the old writer's adage: "Kill your darlings."

The final scene, which felt a long time coming, dragged on way too long. At first, I was deeply moved and loving what I saw and heard but soon I was rolling my eyes at how loooooong it was dragged out I would have gone to credits with the vehicles still moving alongside each other and both actors in frame...CUT! I don't mind a well-crafted, open ending.

The wrestling/rough-housing scenes were incredibly well-choreographed and performed but they all felt more or less the same until the last one. That said, they felt incredibly real. I had two older brothers so I know from rough-housing. :)

Both leads are talented and give beautifully naturalistic performances. I like that they are regular-looking dudes, not super-pretty/buff idol/model types. This too kept things real.

A few lapses in believability but nothing earth-shattering.

Finally, by the film's end, it was coming off as "gays-can't-be-happy" torture-porn but I'm glad I watched it.

I wish someone would edit this so I could watch that new version.

8/10

And yet here you are again...with zero hobbies and too much time on your hands, lurking around and leaving fifty replies to comments you don't even like. How boring must your life be?

I can do this all night...

And yet here you are again...with zero hobbies and too much time on your hands, replying to comments you don't even like.

The words "dumb decisions" are yours, not mine.
Believe as you will. I'm not going to argue with you.

You are so far gone into your Killer Knetz Klown mentality that you've left reality far behind.

Get this into your tiny, weasel-brain, missy. There is no "YOU ALL." I did not know of Sulli until long after her death. I knew nothing of KSR until this ongoing insanity as YOU ALL try to kill off KSH. I have no idea who Sulli's brother is. I knew nothing of Saeron's family until they came out of the woodwork with the lies they're currently peddling and which will come crashing down on their heads in court during KSH's $8M dollar lawsuit against them.

I discovered Kpop and K-movies only five years ago, you psycho. Shortly after of course, I discovered the appalling, animalistic behavior of many Koreans toward their celebrities, which has resulted in dozens of them killing themselves over the last 20 years.

And now here I am, interacting with one of those animals in real time. You're a freak, a weirdo, an obsessed little mouse filling its days with online rantings meant to raise your measly self-esteem by tearing down famous, talented people who have done well. You delight in their destruction and the sense of power it gives you. You wet yourself when one of them takes their own life.

Sadly for you however, that thrill is fleeting and you're soon back on the hunt for your next victim, as you are right here and now. I wish upon you everything you have dished out to come down on your teeny pin head.

If you respond I will ignore it and block you. The more of you Killer Knetz Klowns in my Blocked list, the better.

This movie was a frustrating watch for me.

Its style/vibe from the first frame is spectacular. Every scene is beautifully filmed, colored, and stylized. I love its look. KSH is lovely too. His physical beauty is made the most of here and the audience is the better for it.

But my god, this plot is insanely complicated and ultimately impossible for me to understand on one watch. Unfortunately, I found it overall so tedious that I dropped out 3/4 of the way in, when the gorgeous visuals and exciting OST were overwhelmed and suddenly, I was simply bored.

I fault the director for most of this. KSH has the chops to pull off the two/three/ten/whatever number of egos portrayed, but silly directorial/acting choices ruined it for me. One of them was KSH's over-the-top gum-chewing, designed to clue us in as to which ego we were watching. However, that affectation was amateurishly overdone, like something a high school play actor would do.

Another example was the multi-faceted, mirrored face mask worn by ego number 2 (I think...?). It is fabulously beautiful, but why would this character choose to wear such a thing and why would a doctor design it so? Did I miss something. It felt like a really cool visual thrown in because it was a really cool visual, nothing more, as are many visuals in music videos. This film often felt like it wanted to be a really cool music video.

Fight choreographer should be drummed out of the industry. Embarrassing. I rolled my eyes more than a few times.

Commenters saying this is a "porn" are the typical MDL prudes who think any display of beautiful human bodies is "porn." There are two brief and stylized sex scenes, no pubes or boners are shown, and again, the bodies are lovely. The sex is robotic and stylized too. And brief.

Many times throughout, I was struck by how much KSH resembled Lee Je Hoon, a comparison that never occurred to me before.

So, yeah, I dropped out. Didn't even care to see the end after spending 90 minutes on it.

3/10 for visuals and music only.

KSH has gone another 24 hours without killing himself...that must be eating you up inside.

Like the rest of your comments, this makes no sense.

Yes, I know that. So, given Japan's history of violent earthquakes and tsunamis, why not build inland and pipe the cooling water to where it is needed? That would be more expensive sure, but more expensive than having the entire complex broken apart, then engulfed by a tsunami?