BEST PRISON-TYPE THRILLER EVER. But just as much an intense character study as a thriller. Give Oscars to Park Jin Young and Kim Young Min NOW. Both actors had me in tears multiple times during quiet, intense scenes when the emotions playing across their faces were so real and underplayed that my tear ducts spontaneously responded. This is one of the best overall Asian films I've seen in the three years since I became obsessed with Asian gay cinema, BLs and Asian cinema in general. KYM is already on my best actors list and I'm going to move him up the list, but I can't put PJY on there yet as this is the only thing I think I've seen him in. But he has inspired me to create an Actors To Keep An Eye On list.
Highly recommended. As close to a 10 as I'll ever venture. 9.5/10
On edit: Just discovered PJY is the lead in A Stray Goat, another excellent, intense flick. He is now on my Best Actors list. :)
Good film, great acting. I will only watch that one time. There will be no going back to watch it again, ever.
I am curious as to why you won't watch such a great film a second time. Especially since if you're like me and know you missed some important plot points as I always do the first time around. I get that it's super-intense but once you know what's coming, isn't it easier to prepare for and take in?
No offense, please, I am truly just curious. Because I can't wait to give this a couple of weeks and then watch again.
come on, his toddler tantrums are literally the most entertaining parts of the show 🤣🤣🤡
Agreed. I don't think his tantrums are bad acting at all. I see lots of male Korean adult tantrums like that in movies too. I think it's an actual thing when they don't get their way and it's scary and hilarious at the same time.
It's kind of infuriating how coldly oblivious Seung Jun is to his adoring, faithful and NON-PRESSURING housemate, who puts his SJ's needs before his own. Loved SJ telling Jae Hyun off at the beginning, letting him know that he was just another version of his stalker ex-BF. That sidewalk scene was embarrassing with the two butch tops arguing over whose little bitch SJ was. But then, instead of spending a year in therapy to figure out why he is attracted to controlling men who treat him as an object to be possessed, SJ instead moons over one of his stalkers and writes a song about him. Idiot. It's a real stretch to believe SJ would never notice his housemate's affection for him. It's written all over his handsome face. So glad the costume designer isn't dressing these good-looking young men in huge, baggy, ugly outfits such as over on Love Mate. I was holding out hope for an SJ/housemate revelation, but I guess that's not going to happen. In the end, SJ just has a thing for men who argue over access to his little a*s.
The idols have the final say if they want to do it or not. Let them worry about their own career. Korea is still…
"The idols have the final say if they want to do it or not." Yeah, K-Pop and other K-entertainment agencies are very well known for letting their slaves do as they please. lol
This started off super-strong, then went so far over the top I didn't care anymore. However, the epic showdown between two very unlikely foes was a sight to behold, even if kind of stupid. Bloody gore and amazing fight choreography as only the Koreans can do. One hundred percent from the actor and actress going at it was breath-taking.
So for a brainless thriller with a few absurdly ridiculous two-people-running-into-each-other-by-chance-in-one-of-the-biggest-metro-areas-in-the-world type coincidences, it's not bad but I don't enjoy turning my brain off to that degree.
Lee Min Ki sure is beautiful though, especially smirking while covered in crimson blood.
Totally agree. Plus, cyclops-babies are extremely rare, even from sibling parents.I watched this for a second…
I stand corrected: The chance of serious birth abnormalities in children of siblings is about 25%. In the England case, what were the courts going to do if the wife got pregnant? Force her to abort? I don't generally like government telling people what to do in their personal lives, especially at that intimate of a level. If they have kids and it's a problem, then they have to live with it. Plus, again, incest is such a teeeeeeeeny-tiny problem that it gets attention way beyond its import to society. It involves sex so naturally Englad and America freak.
I also liked Yano. He was portrayed as one of those people who stood above things and observed philosophically,…
That's why I liked Yano more, the girl less: they were NOT conventional reactions, which made them interesting. The girl saw the incest as a tool to get in Yori's pants. Yano was intellectual and philisophical about it. And in my eyes both had been observing what was going on for a long time leading up to their telling Yori that they knew.
Yori's seeming complete unconcern that either of the two might rat them out to parents or teachers or friends seemed far more unrealistic than that there were two OTHER weird kids in school.
But just as much an intense character study as a thriller.
Give Oscars to Park Jin Young and Kim Young Min NOW.
Both actors had me in tears multiple times during quiet, intense scenes when the emotions playing across their faces were so real and underplayed that my tear ducts spontaneously responded.
This is one of the best overall Asian films I've seen in the three years since I became obsessed with Asian gay cinema, BLs and Asian cinema in general.
KYM is already on my best actors list and I'm going to move him up the list, but I can't put PJY on there yet as this is the only thing I think I've seen him in. But he has inspired me to create an Actors To Keep An Eye On list.
Highly recommended. As close to a 10 as I'll ever venture.
9.5/10
On edit: Just discovered PJY is the lead in A Stray Goat, another excellent, intense flick. He is now on my Best Actors list. :)
No offense, please, I am truly just curious. Because I can't wait to give this a couple of weeks and then watch again.
LIFE is triggering.
Loved SJ telling Jae Hyun off at the beginning, letting him know that he was just another version of his stalker ex-BF. That sidewalk scene was embarrassing with the two butch tops arguing over whose little bitch SJ was.
But then, instead of spending a year in therapy to figure out why he is attracted to controlling men who treat him as an object to be possessed, SJ instead moons over one of his stalkers and writes a song about him. Idiot.
It's a real stretch to believe SJ would never notice his housemate's affection for him. It's written all over his handsome face.
So glad the costume designer isn't dressing these good-looking young men in huge, baggy, ugly outfits such as over on Love Mate.
I was holding out hope for an SJ/housemate revelation, but I guess that's not going to happen. In the end, SJ just has a thing for men who argue over access to his little a*s.
Who cares though? I'm in love with Bluebem now.
So for a brainless thriller with a few absurdly ridiculous two-people-running-into-each-other-by-chance-in-one-of-the-biggest-metro-areas-in-the-world type coincidences, it's not bad but I don't enjoy turning my brain off to that degree.
Lee Min Ki sure is beautiful though, especially smirking while covered in crimson blood.
6.5/10
In the England case, what were the courts going to do if the wife got pregnant? Force her to abort?
I don't generally like government telling people what to do in their personal lives, especially at that intimate of a level. If they have kids and it's a problem, then they have to live with it.
Plus, again, incest is such a teeeeeeeeny-tiny problem that it gets attention way beyond its import to society. It involves sex so naturally Englad and America freak.
Yori's seeming complete unconcern that either of the two might rat them out to parents or teachers or friends seemed far more unrealistic than that there were two OTHER weird kids in school.
Blessed be the weird.