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YES. :D

From the article above, and many more on the web:
Promotional materials, including posters, have omitted Yoo Ah In's presence while emphasizing Lee Byung Hun. Director Kim explained,

"The trailer is exposed to an unspecified large audience, but I thought re-editing the film would disrupt the story's coherence, considering its narrative structure and planning intent."

Oh well...never mind. lol

Dear God.
Do a little research about the story told in the film. Without Yoo's character throughout, there IS no story. His is a lead role, not that of some minor supporting character. lol

Excellent.
The only decision that makes sense.
This is a good sign that deranged, sadistic Netizens are losing their hold on Korean culture. Courageous move by the director.

Go Yoo! We're with you, babe.

Educate yourself.

Meh...don't care.

Dropping halfway.
Daniel Wu is pretty to look at though.

1/10

OK, lol, first of all, the all-caps: Lay off them. Your screeching only makes you look hysterical.

Second of all, you are a typical netizen-type and willfully stupid person. Seungri was never charged with, let alone convicted of, rape or sexual assault of any kind; nor was he accused or convicted of filming such acts. Those crimes were committed by other people, some of whom were caught and tried and some of whom were not.

Seungri was convicted of prostitution mediation, which he denied; lame embezzlement charges, which he denied; and "habitual" gambling while overseas (complete BS. SK is the only first-world country that holds its citizens to its own laws while in other countries). Just to be clear, do you understand what "prostitutes" are? I'll fill you in: They are women who CHOOSE to sell the use of their body parts for sexual pleasure in return for money or other valuables. No one forced anyone. Seungri denied arranging for prostitutes anyway, not that you care because it doesn't fit your narrative that he's a rapist and all-round bad person.

During his endless trial, several witnesses testified that police and prosecutors had strong-armed them into making inaccurate accusations, prodded them with leading questions designed to implicate Seungri, and other abuses of police power. Two of the witnesses whom Seungri was accused of arranging to have beaten up said they never felt threatened and had no idea why Seungri's name had even come up. lol

The cops and prosecutors were clearly out to nail Seungri with crimes he didn't commit, for purposes of publicity and career advancement. Korean cops love to do that; it's one reason why so many Korean celebrities kill themselves. Ever heard the name Lee Sun Kyun?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seungri#Trial

Do some research and educate yourself before leaving such moronic comments. They only show you for the nincompoop you are.

I look forward to your apology.

"body shaming..." hahahahahahaha...so...lame. Leaving one's mouth hanging open is now something forbidden for an audience to notice and comment on? If you are an actor and put yourself on stage or in front of a camera, EVERYTHING about you, how you look, breathe, move, etc. is all part of what we see and hear during a performance. As such how you do those things and how you appear is up for discussion.

To declare that noticing something like a mouth hanging open is "body-shaming" is absurd, but seeing as you're a person defending terrible acting, I'm not surprised to read it coming from you.

You're dangerously close to "observation shaming." I have eyes and ears. What they see and hear are connected to my brain. My brain analyzes/computes the input. After that, my brain sends the results to my mouth and fingers where I type them out for you to read: "Holland is a mouth-breather and it's distracting in his performances. He should consider taming that aspect of his affect."

How DARE you eyes/ears/brain/fingers shame me!

One was Impressions of Youth...I don''t recall the other right now.

Breathtakingly bad.

Dropped.
1/10

He's not trying to play "'depressed," he's just a bad actor. I saw him in another BL and same problem; no range of expression. Plus, his mouth hangs open half the time.

That's because Thailand BL standards are non-existent.

So true.

lol Poor baby.

"You can always be on the receiving end..." BWAHAHAHAHAHA...

7.9/10? Seriously? lol The MDL Little Gurls have been busy up-rating again, I see.

Putting on hold midway through episode 3.

This thing is far too fluffy/stupid/lame/badly-acted/predictable/trope-ish/chiche for me to bear right now. Plus, it's depressing to see another of this type of mess come out of Korea, one of my last three hopes for decent BLs. I recently finished two awful Taiwanese shows, so this is extra alarming.

I laughed when the most psycho of the Psycho Twins said "Oh, did I not tell you, I own the company you work for now?" SO very original and totally NOT something we have seen a hundred times before. :P Another problem is that dude's pointy face/chin and cupid's bow mouth which curls upward in a disturbing, Joker-like grin that gives me the heebie-jeebies. ick.

Another horrifying thing is to see men tucking their sweaters into their pants again. That was enough of a nightmare the first time around in the 1990s. Yes, I'm a fossil.

The only remotely appealing character is the nice one, but he is TOO nice, to the point he comes off desperate and stalkerish. Nobody likes someone who acts slavish and obsessed; it grows tiresome quickly.

There's nothing original about the helpless, little girl bottom character, nor how he's being played. Just tell Joker-mouth to f**k off and quit. Bat those bottom-boy eyelashes at some other PR director and you'll have another job in no time, psycho-free. This guy is so weak and spineless, what's to root for?

So, yeah...setting this aside in case I am desperate for BL vibes later. I'll check back later and if it appears from comments that the two psychos have gone SO psycho that it's worth tuning in, I'll be back. :)

Toodle-ooo, fluff-lovers!

Thanks. I'll check out the recommendation.

What I see over and over again is grown-ass, educated adults who have sex without protection and are then mystified when someone turns up pregnant.
The initial seduction scene was odd...the maid certainly didn't need much convincing which later made it hard to see her as a victim.
Why would the old lady help her do that wild-ass shit at the end? By that time, she was quite fond of her. Nevertheless, she grants her access to the house so she can hang and set herself on fire. Lame.
If her revenge was to scar the little girl with the memory of the hanging/burning then this REALLY makes no sense. She adored that child from the beginning, and the kid was extremely kind and taken with her. Why get back at the parents through her?
Why wouldn't the old lady ask for a shit ton of money before leaving? She has truckloads of dirt on these filthy rich people to whom image is everything. Her silence is valuable to them.
At the very end, why were they having the little girl's birthday party outside in the freezing cold with snow all around and no coats on? It was so absurd I assumed it was a dream at first.

Typing all this out has made realize how utterly absurd this movie is. lol

I read through comments below AFTER watching this. I get where people going wtf? are coming from for sure. Unlike others, I enjoyed a lot of it however.

But yeah, the ending makes little sense. I think I know the intention, but the intention makes no sense either. There was another major plot point early on that happens over and again in flicks like this and I got to roll my eyes for the hundredth time over it.

The husband naked was nice, but there wasn't enough of that to make up for all the weak spots.

Things that annoyed and mystified me under the spoiler below, if you're interested.

Meh...if you feel like a thriller and don't care a lot about things like plausibility, you may well enjoy this. I sorta did but the ending was the final straw.

5/10

I got some heat between Coffee Guy and Hotel Guy, but the director is lame. It seems to me that all four actors have potential, but the director was out to lunch the whole time. I did get all misty a couple times in the finale. This is terrible, but I feel bad for Teacher Man in that he is relatively handsome but that is one of the ugliest ugly-cry faces I've seen. I hope he doesn't read comments here.

Any shows to suggest? I'm down to one, Secret Relationships, in which the story has great potential but the bad acting and loads of tropes already threaten to tank the whole thing. Guess we shall see...

Well said.