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FGS... How many bullets could that first assassins handgun carry? He shot 15 times! lol

The fact that A Jin is reacting to child abuse puts her in the category of a psychopath.
Sociopaths don't even reach the point to have to behave this way. In fact they are able from very young age to avoid being abused because they are usually very intelligent and able to "read the room" and as such they are able to be always ahead of the circumstances. They prioritize their well being and they never allow anyone to harm them.
I've just replied above in an extended comment about Sociopaths behavior. Please read it in order not to write it again. :)

Hi! No it is the other way round. The detached methodical and logical manipulative scheming cruelty towards others is a characteristic of the sociopaths.
Psychopaths are disturbed, they don't have a strategy, their behavior doesn't have most of the times any kind of logic, they don't know why they do something, it comes out from pure emotion, action and reaction.
A person f.e that was abused as a young child might have unexpected and uncontrollable reactions if it feels that is threatened and/or happen to be in an environment that might be similar to the environment that this person experienced initially the abuse. And they might react violently in the manner of "fight of flight". That is the survival mode that you've mentioned.

Sociopaths on the other hand calculate in advance whatever they do. My cousin is a sociopath, and trust me there was nothing in his childhood that can justify his calculative, emotionally detached behavior. It is not that he is reacting to something that happened to him, or that his actions are the result of trauma or fear, or emotional instability due to Post Traumatic Disorder.
He thinks in advance how he will behave in order to take what he wants from anyone that is associating with him. Whatever that is. He lies, he will play different "roles" in order to adapt into different environments, ( professional or personal etc). The only way to stop him is to ignore him and keep him in distance in order to not be able to interfere in our lives.
( it is not very wise to tell him personal things or allow him to interfere).
He has been diagnosed with ASPD. It is not that he doesn't know it, but it is not also that he does anything to control his behavior. We know it too and we behave to him accordingly. We have been instructed about what to do when we are dealing with him.
To ignore him and not get emotionally engaged with what he does.

Sociopaths also look normal. They don't have expressionless faces the way it is depicted in this drama. They smile, they cry, generally speaking they show feelings that they don't actually feel and that is the reason why they can manipulate the others. There is no way to detect that behind the charming behavior there is a person that is calculating everything and his or her aim is to use you. Their excellent ability to mimic feelings ( that don't actually have) is the way they have to manipulate the others. They play the victims, they shed fake tears ( usually from one eye! lol) they might show you that they love you, look at you with admiration in their eyes, or with the look of a defenseless puppy, and in the background they dig your grave!
And another characteristic of sociopaths is that they try to isolate their victims in order to prevent them from exchange information with others. They do that because they lie constantly and they spread false information to different persons and groups and they want to prevent these people to come together and exchange whatever info they have been fed.
Psychopaths are never so well organized to say so, and as logical as sociopaths are.

I don't think that this drama depicts correctly what Sociopathy is.
Sociopaths have no serious reasons to be self obsessed, calculative, manipulative and cruel towards others. It is not that someone harmed them, abused and they became Sociopaths.
Also Sociopaths never purposely harm themselves in order to revenge or harm people around them and that because they consider their well being above everyone else's well being. They harm the others because they prioritize themselves and their goals. They might behave with whatever reckless way one can imagine for themselves but never for anyone else.
They are also very insecure because they don't have self identity and that is the reason why they are mimicking characters, behaviors etc. They change behavior and character according to the environment or people they are associate with in order to achieve their goals.
Anyway this drama depicts a psychopath and not a sociopath.
In fact A Jin's school rival Sim Seung Hui shows signs of sociopathy. A Jin is psychopath 100% due to extreme abuse during her childhood.
And in case you wonder how to get rid of Sociopaths: Just abandon them and ignore them. The moment they realize that you don't care about them, they will abandon you to find someone else easier to exploit. No matter what they do, ( they will try everything to get you back before turning their attention to someone else) just ignore them and abandon them.

Hi! I'm afraid that you 've missed the point of my comment.
I didn't say that I'm against plastic surgery for those who need it because they have a medical or other problem.
I've said that I'm against plastic surgery that is done in order to comply with a very specific completely manufactured and unattainable most of the times, standard of beauty.
This actress was beautiful either way. There wasn't something to improve in the first place! She had the natural beauty that complied with the South Korean beauty standard but she got plastic surgery either way, for no reason at all.
Now she is trying hard reverse aging and instead of looking younger, she looks like a middle aged woman ( 44 is middle age if we live up to our 90s) who has done plastic surgery.
Not younger, ...reconstructed! Restored.
But I don't see a good reason why is so wrong -particularly for women- to embrace their age.
It is a good thing to grow older. It means that you didn't die when you were young in the first place!
It means that you are more experienced, more knowledgeable, wise. You might not look anymore like the blooming flower that you were in your twenties but you gain something else. Respect because you are a grown up, mature person.

Of course her money is hers to do whatever she likes with that money. But it is a bit futile for her to work hard, in order to pay for expensive plastic surgeries, in order to be able to keep on working hard. The plastic surgeon is in this case, an unneeded intermediate.

It doesn't really matter what sort of plastic surgery she has done. The problem is that she doesn't admit it misleading this way the female fans that she is influencing.
She is not good looking at 44 just because she is training and dieting. She is good looking because when she is not acting she is spending her hard earned salary to retain her looks with whatever method is available out there and pushing the message that women's worth rely on their looks.
I'm not saying of course that she is the only one that she does that. All celebrities, Asian or Western do that and that is so wrong on each and every level.
This attitude is a devaluation of women in the first place, of acting ( if you don't look perfect nobody is going to cast you), of ageing, ( if you dare to age you are done), and of the audience's intellect, ( like we are stupid and we are unable to figure out what they do in their faces).

Yeah sure... Those that you can buy at a plastic surgery clinic...!

And she stays youthful with a lot and very obvious plastic surgery.
She should have said that because a lot of her female fans might think that it is the training that retains her face wrinkle free at the age of 44. Which is not an old age by any means, but it is neither the age that people are completely wrinkle free.
Don't take it wrong, I'm not against aging. On the contrary. I believe that there is nothing wrong on ageing naturally and embrace each and every stage of our lives.

It is hard for Japanese people to speak English. They have learned to use their mouth and throat differently not to mention that some Asian languages don't even have some letters or sounds f.e R or TH ( as it is pronounced at "theme"). In this film Nishijima tries really hard to pronounce R correctly. He is thinking how to say it! It doesn't come naturally out of his mouth.
So it is not fair to criticize those who are trying to act in English. Do we speak perhaps better Japanese after all?

This is not malicious. I use it very often.
https://hollymoviehd.cc/dear-stranger-2025/

Sometimes local authorities mark such websites as malicious in order to prevent you from visiting them. It happens a lot in my country and if I eventually bypass the warnings and visit it, it redirects me to a page that says that the website is blocked to my country due to copyright infringement and other similar lame excuses.
And I say lame because there is no other way to watch Asian movies and films in my country. They don't even show them at the cinemas that is what I mean.

https://hollymoviehd.cc/dear-stranger-2025/

But they were not imbecilic. Their actions were not fueled by stupidity but by extreme nationalism and imperialism, that was after all a characteristic of that era. It was not, I mean, a strictly Japanese or German phenomenon. Here in Greece we were ruled by Metaxas' dictatorship, the Italians had Mousolini, the Spanish had Franco, the Russians had Stalin, even the British had King Edward ( the king that abdicated) who was a nazi-phile ( neologism! lol ). There were of course a good number of people who opposed on each and every regime, but nations don't participate to wars if the majority of people doesn't support the cause of the war no matter on which side they fight for. So I find quite impossible the assumption that the Imperial Japanese military officers not only had inhibitions about the expansionism of Imperial Japan but they were trying actively to destroy the morale of the Japanese people, who were after all those who were enlisted to the army and they were fighting.
It is more reasonable to assume that they were misguided or overestimated the usefulness and the effectiveness of the ships that they manufactured, than assume that they decided to manufacture useless weapons with the ulterior motive to lose the war. Which is what the writers of the film claim through the character of the admiral at the end of the film. I'm not making this up. It is there in the film!

The war didn't mean doom for Japan from the very start and no Japanese individual, let alone any of the military personnel would be able to know in advance the war's outcome. Admiral Yamamoto said that several years later into the war, close to the end of the war. He wouldn't after all participate in this war if he considered it futile.
But whatever was Yamamoto's actual personal opinion, before and in the duration of the war, this movie implies that the top ranked military officers not only knew that they would lose the war but they did whatever they could in order to break the morale of Japanese people. In other words it implies that they were all traitors from the very beginning, but somehow they got into the trouble to inspire Japanese people to participate into this pointless war, and then knowing already that they would lose the war, they tried to break the fighting morale of the same people that persuaded themselves to join the war! Which doesn't make any f cking sense! The people wanted to fight but the Military considered it futile? WTF are they saying? lol lol
This movie is IMHO a case study of historical revisionism but I'm not quite certain about what is the exact point that is trying to make.
But anyway...if I was Japanese ( I'm Greek) I would consider this film historically inaccurate and an insult for Japanese people and Japanese history. History is already written, it won't change with retrospective assumptions.

This movie is available with English subs here
https://hollymoviehd.cc/night-falls-2024/

No objections. The son though doesn't look a bit like his dad! lol

The bakery lady has obviously very bad taste on regard of men! lol

This story is based on their sexual relationships that are described in the original book. The book is an epistolary novel where the main characters exchange letters were they describe in details what they did to their partners and how they manipulated them.

If there is no nudity and erotic scenes, which must exist if they want to depict in film what they describe the one to the other in their letters, there is no story because whatever they do in their bedrooms it is important for the progress of the plot. It is a book for adults and if they exclude the erotic scenes it would be better not to bother to remake it at all.

Epistolary novels that were trending back in the era, are btw very very difficult to read because it is very boring to read letters. A book in similar style is "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky that is one of the same. Very difficult to read and keep track of what is going on because you have to figure out what is going on from the main characters' correspondence.

I agree. They remake the same old stories with some new enhancements and that is the reason why most of the new dramas and films are boring as hell. If this drama is based on Dangerous Liaisons it would be the number 10 remake of this story in film or drama. Not to mention that it has already be done in its Asian version ( set and era ).

Riga looks great but it doesn't look a bit like old Vladivostok. They should have filmed in Bucharest instead.

Mrs Kong goes nowhere without her red lipstick, even when she is crossing a desert or she drives a carriage into a battlefield. And all that in 1909 China!
Meanwhile Mr Tatsuo Mori's Colt double action revolver that can hold up to 6 bullets fires 17 in one go! lol