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Most people with ED don't eat at all. I know that because I had a friend back in my school days that eventually died from it. In any case this is an awful article because it promotes ED.
Shame on this actress who is boasting on her interviews about her ED though she knows that what she's saying will influence young girls. It is the same as prompting someone to kill him/herself. It is consider as felony in some countries.

She probably thinks that she is fat. That is what people with eating disorders see in their mirror. Their otherwise skeletal self looking fat. They have no real sense of how they actually look like.

WTF is this? An article promoting Eating Disorders?

Hi. I've just watched this film and I agree with you. TBH I didn't understand what was the deal with the wife being able to see the future, and I'm of the opinion that the supposed plot twist at the end of the film is rather improbable, because the footprints of the children are not evidence that they were the children those that they committed the crime. It looks more like the teacher killed her and tried to pass the responsibility to the children in order to persuade the parents to cover up in his behalf. At the end of the day the children were jumping up and down at the spot that they've found the body, so the footsteps could have easily been there in advance. It is not after all that they found the body in broad day light. Anyway... That was a very mediocre who done it plot with lot of plot holes and a waste of the really good cast.

If you liked this film watch Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire. This is one of these iconic films, that countless directors and film writers have copied with one or the other way. Either the plot, the visuals, scenes. Even the writers of Goblin have copied a scene ( I won't spoil it) from Wings of Desire, and I have detected the main concept of the plot in countless Kdramas and films.
The protagonist now of this film, the late Bruno Ganz, is the guy responsible for the most famous and persistent parody meme on internet. Is the actor who played Hitler at the 2004 film Downfall. I'm mentioning in order to know who this actor is because I know that if you watch Wings of Desire you are going to break your mind to figure out who this ML is because he is still quite young on this film.

Look. There are no such thing as perfect countries and perfect cultures and people. All countries have their good and bad things. That is the reason why I've said on my previous comment that you either have to like a culture because you understand it or it clicks something on your or not. TBH I don't particularly care what Koreans do, but as a general observation I have to say that Koreans ( northern and southerners) are the only people in the world that managed to have two different dystopias in the same peninsula! lol
This must not be a coincidence and it needs some kind of talent or something. I can't explain it otherwise!

Hi! The original drama didn't deserve such low rating either. Regarding the remake... generally speaking, remakes are rarely better than the the originals. So if the original drama was for something like 7, 7,5, then the remake must be something like this or somewhat lower. Definitely not for a 10 and I can tell that in advance.

I have no objections about the plot, but the execution matters as well.

Allow me to disagree. I gave at the first watch a 7,5 and I've lowered it to 7. It is not the worst drama in the world, but it is not that good for the 9 that initially had.

Hi! My opinion is that S.Korea developed way too fast financially and technologically but not socially, which is something that makes sense of course. Societies and social customs can't follow that rapid changes.
Just imagine that the people that were born immediately after the Korean war, that left the country devastated and the people eating ...dogs, are still alive. These people grew up in a society that was completely backward, and they raised their children, the same way. They've got in the process the better finances and the technology, but they used them to multiply their backward toxic behaviors. The children of those who were born in the 1950s-60s are ruling now the country. It is not that their attitudes are that much different than those of their parents.
In any case... we as foreigners will have to either like that culture or not. I personally don't.

I've started watching Korean films and dramas, out of curiosity and in order to watch something different and I have watched a good number of them, but now the quality of their films and dramas is lower . I'm not also dying about the S. Korean culture and it is not a country that I would like that much to visit it.

Hi! TBH I don't know if she first started with modelling or vice versa. But they didn't tone her looks down to make her look less pretty either. She just had "improvements and enhancements" (IE as I call it ) that is something that I personally don' t like, not only on this actress but on all actresses.
It is tragic IMHO that normal very well looking women feel the need to alter their faces in a manner that makes them look like plastic Barbie dolls. If for one thing these IE make them look all the same, to lose completely whatever uniqueness their faces have.
And when you don't have a unique face in entertainment industry, then you are replaceable because your face exists in countless copies.

No they didn't tone down her looks. She has altered completely her face the recent years with a lot of plastic surgery. Make a search for her before and after photos to see what I'm talking about.
I'm not judging her of course for trying to improve her face for modelling, but on the other hand getting the looks of a model, is not necessarily the best for an acting career because there are not that many roles out there for model like looking actors. The requirements I mean, are different!

I can't tell if that is due to the Chinese remake premiere. Personally I lowered my rating after rewatching it recently. You see when you watch a second time a drama you start see things that you didn't notice the first time. I found that the FL was over acting her role and the end was way too melodramatic.
I think that what contributed to the super high rating of this drama was the very sad situation around the death of Lee Sun Kyun. He was a great actor, but objectively this drama wasn't his best of the best. It was a very good one but not for the universal 9 star rating.
But TBH this actor's death made me stop watching that many S. Korean dramas. I got disgusted with the S.K culture. I find it completely toxic. They used to make better films and dramas in the past, but now it seems that they follow the ....enshitification trend! lol
That doesn't mean of course that I support the/any rating bombing from Cdrama fans. Downvoting this drama won't make the remake better.

Hi! He was convicted for pimping not for rape let alone of a child. So they actually convicted him for the "immorality" of the deal they had but not for raping her, because she didn't actually sue him for pimping her, and as you've said two out of the three intercourses took place with her consent, in the context of the deal that they had agreed. Not to mention that even the conviction for prostitution doesn't stand in this case because pimping implies that she was forced by him to have sex with other men against her will, which is not the case.

She consented to sleep with him in exchange of a role something that says a lot about her morality too.

The proof that she wasn't at the age that she could be considered a child, comes from the fact that the state didn't run after her parents for neglecting their underage child. She was already old enough to consent in a sexual affair, and also old enough to be able to sign the contract for the role when and if he arranged an audition or to give her directly this role. So probably not a minor at all.
If she wasn't able to sign any contract how would she be able to justify what she did to her parents, that would have been those who would have been legally obliged to sign the/any contract for the role in her behalf?
Look... I don't support pimps and rapists, but on the other hand I'm 100% against young women who use the law according to how is more convenient for them. And I bet from what I've have read online about this case, that if he gave her the role she wouldn't probably accuse him for anything. She would have used the whatever intercourses to advance her film career.
That is the reason why I've said on my previous comment that it would have been better to sue him for breech of agreement!
That was the heart of the matter and not if she had sex with him.

Hi! You don't seem to be aware about what was the case.
He was never convicted for rape and the woman that accused him was considered a minor only in S. Korea where the age of adulthood is 19 because S.Koreans are considered already 1 year old when they are born.
She was in other words already 18 and by far above the age of consent that back then was 13 y.o and she had on top of that a three months affair with him but she accused him for rape several months after they ended their affair in very good terms because he didn't help her to get a role in a drama.
Eventually the court fined him for pushing her to prostitution because she exchanged sex with the role. The fine doesn't make that much sense though because she was already an adult and she admitted at the court that he didn't force her to have sex with him, let alone for three months. She admitted that he promised her a role that he didn't eventually give to her, so she claimed that it was his fault that she was very ambitious and she didn't have any problem to sleep with a guy 20 years older than her for three months in order to get a role. From her point of view it would have been better it he sued him for breach of agreement. But courts don't consider valid such kind of "agreements".

I'm not a bro for one thing. Second I've asked politely and you replied to me rudely. Good manners never harmed anyone though.

Now what I've got from the scene where she got the pendant to the electronics specialist was that she went there to check if the pendant was bugged because she didn't trust San Ho and not that she bugged it herself in order to surveil him.

I was left with the impression that she un-bugged the pendant that she gave to her (and that is the reason why he told him that she would never trust him) and then she gave it back to him.
Not to mention that it didn't make any sense to me on how this surveillance thing could connect to the internet and upload data to the cloud wherever San Ho was. This guy was everywhere, at some point they were thirty feet underground, or middle of nowhere.

Devices don't make use of the mobile phone antennas just like that, and no broadcasting device would be able to operate forever without recharging. My point is that the bugged pendant concept aside the fact that it didn't make that much sense, was rather impossible because if there is a device that can connect to the cloud directly and without charging then why don't we have it in our smartphones??!

Can someone explain to me please what was the deal with the bugged pendant? Who was surveilling who? I'm asking because this pendant changed a trillion hands, the priest gave it to San Ho, San Ho gave it to Mun Ju, she gave it back to him and then someone else, probably the mother in law recorded them planning to leave while they were at bed, but then a few scenes later it was Mun Ju who was surveilling San Ho and it seems that she had made that pendant. But how it ended up at the priest's hands?
Whose that pendant was?
Also Mun Ju and her husband were supposed to be Christians. Why were the ashes of their baby stored at a Buddhist's temple?

Torturing the servants was the somewhat "natural" reaction to the way he was growing up like an isolated animal. He had nobody to impose any sort of boundaries to him. He was taken at the age of 3y.o and was left to grow up in a palace full of servants, with no parents and no one to teach him anything about human interactions.
It is like locking up a puppy in a luxurious room, feeding it etc but leave it all alone. Sooner or later it will rip off the furniture. Because that was what the servants were for him. Like furniture, impersonal extras, that he didn't even considered as humans, because that is how the servants behave to him after all. Like he was a living god, that they shouldn't touch, shouldn't talk if he didn't talk to them first, they shouldn't object his will, disobey, give him instructions etc.
I don't think that he was a monster because he didn't harm consciously anyone let alone the people outside the walls of his palace, that he didn't even know if they existed!
My opinion is that all of them, the emperor, the servants ( that were made eunuchs ) and the people of China were all victims of a monstrous system that didn't become any better in the process, because the Communist regime that followed, replicated with the one or the other way the same disregard for individualism.
That is where I detect to say so the problem.
And that is after all what differentiates the Western from Eastern cultures. I'm not saying of course that the one culture is better than the other. Both have their pros and cons.
It is that if something goes to the extremes it ends up not working at all.

Hi! I would suggest to watch the director's cut the version that is 3 hours and 38 minutes which depicts better Pu Yi's character. How he grew up and why he ended up being a clueless person who couldn't even tie his shoes.
The saddest scene of this movie is IMHO the scene where Pu Yi as a 15 y.o is not allowed to get out the palace.

It shows that he was actually with the one or the other way a prisoner for almost all his life. First as a child emperor and symbol of Chinese empire, then as a puppet emperor who had to obey the Japanese regime and finally as a prisoner of the Communistic regime.

The film doesn't touch the cost to Pu Yi's people because the film is Pu Yi's point of view. He was clueless for what was happening outside the palace because he was not allowed to get out of his palace even if he wanted to. Same applied to the Japanese regime. The Communists' prison wasn't the worst that could have happened to him because at least he had there some interaction with normal everyday people, and not just eunuchs and concubines, that they behaved to him as some sort of living god that had no emotional needs or the need of any sort of human interaction.

I personally felt sorry for him at the end because he didn't choose this life and he didn't have any chance to interfere in the politics of his era. He was picked up and isolated in a palace like some sort of idol, then as pawn and finally as a prisoner for crimes that he didn't consciously commit himself.

Hi! The fact that you mention that it is a big deal to get roles at your mid 40s in Korea says everything about how obsessed are Koreans with appearance instead of acting skills.
Think what a waste this is for the talent of veteran actors who could play older characters, but they won't be cast if they don't look young! This is simply surreal!