I feel like the director/screenwriter is making a point about the things women need to do in order to survive…
That Sang Ah is exploiting Bang Tae Seop became clear to me in ep 6, when BTS thinks they are having a "heart to heart" moment at the hospital.
It's interesting how the character Sang Ah or how Ha Ji Won played the character seemed so superficial or typical/boring to me at first and then when i saw her scenes with Ji Soo, i understood that she's actually pretending all the fricking time. When she's with Ji Soo, we see her being honest for the first time and that similar level of honesty is also seen when she is with Jeong Won.
The revealing of her character is probably the most layered out of all of them, so i'm interested to see what more is to come. Does she actually care for Jeong Won or not? I'm still not sure, but JW seems to care about her.
As for the show using a lot of scenes just for shock value, it doesn't feel like that to me as much as it seems to to others. The pee scene seemed like a very clever way to show how disgusting SA is or isn't willing to get and to show how Yang Mi is testing/assessing her at that moment and not just playing with her. Another scene that really stood out to me and felt well thought through, was the revealing of the sex tape. How intentionally it was hidden by BTS and his shadow. Given that this show is inspired by real life events, the way we the viewers see that scene could fall in line with what the director/showrunners might be trying to achieve - show the deeply problematic bts of the industry and that part of society, while staying true in their stance of it being wrong and therefore not exploiting women by not including a scene of them that's lowkey porn. And that gave me the impression that they are being serious. I know that they cut some scenes to lower the show's age rating, so i may be totally off and they aren't as serious about making a statement, but i wouldn't be surprised if nothing more of the sex scene would be shown retrospectively in the last episodes.
Is the wlw relationship a big part of this show? I'm interested in watching queer representation from Korea but…
Wlw itself isn't a big part of the show, but whatever amount of it there is, isn't male gaze and the actresses' acting is good. There isn't any actual queer representation, bc the focus is about what goes on behind the scenes of the rich and powerful and how far/low ppl are willing to go in order to get what they want - either their dreams, revenge or just more power. It isn't about romance, straight or gay, it's about how greedy and ugly ppl can get and the insanity of being caught in it.
something funny i just noticed: the poster has that huge alien standing behind a wall where Jihyo and Bora are hiding. If the hallucination alien is a metaphor for suppressed gayness, then the poster is hilarious because it's like the gay is creeping up on them lol
First i searched for hours, if the movie would be on any of the streaming websites by chance; even found a mega thread of websites of the east and west. Not👏a👏single👏one👏had👏the👏movie. But someone posted a link to the raw no-sub version here in the comments, so i thought that could be a start and then searched on numerous subtitle websites to try and find something. By the grace of yuri gods i found french subtitles (i think they exist bc the movie was featured at a french movie festival) which i then had translated into english by ai that's avaliable on the subtitle website.
Watched the movie with the subs and they seem to be at least 80% accurate! Yay, most can be easily understood! I'll put the link in the comment below⬇️ in the spoiler tag
if anyone would be interested in more, the actress who plays Juyeong has a yt channel and she made a video with the director of this movie: https://youtu.be/IUXmYAUEtHw?si=14vvQvMBz49UWmNM. they watch and discuss deleted scenes, share a bit about behind the scenes stuff and anwser a few questions sent in by the fans. the video doesn't have subtitles tho, so if you don't understand korean, the only option u have is auto-translate subs (i guess i could understand most of them). besides this video, she also has 2 or 3 more about the movie: the day leading to, the day of the premiere and a short conversation with the actress who plays the taekwando friend.
It's interesting how the character Sang Ah or how Ha Ji Won played the character seemed so superficial or typical/boring to me at first and then when i saw her scenes with Ji Soo, i understood that she's actually pretending all the fricking time. When she's with Ji Soo, we see her being honest for the first time and that similar level of honesty is also seen when she is with Jeong Won.
The revealing of her character is probably the most layered out of all of them, so i'm interested to see what more is to come. Does she actually care for Jeong Won or not? I'm still not sure, but JW seems to care about her.
As for the show using a lot of scenes just for shock value, it doesn't feel like that to me as much as it seems to to others. The pee scene seemed like a very clever way to show how disgusting SA is or isn't willing to get and to show how Yang Mi is testing/assessing her at that moment and not just playing with her.
Another scene that really stood out to me and felt well thought through, was the revealing of the sex tape. How intentionally it was hidden by BTS and his shadow.
Given that this show is inspired by real life events, the way we the viewers see that scene could fall in line with what the director/showrunners might be trying to achieve - show the deeply problematic bts of the industry and that part of society, while staying true in their stance of it being wrong and therefore not exploiting women by not including a scene of them that's lowkey porn. And that gave me the impression that they are being serious.
I know that they cut some scenes to lower the show's age rating, so i may be totally off and they aren't as serious about making a statement, but i wouldn't be surprised if nothing more of the sex scene would be shown retrospectively in the last episodes.
Thats as much as i can say without spoiling.
First i searched for hours, if the movie would be on any of the streaming websites by chance; even found a mega thread of websites of the east and west.
Not👏a👏single👏one👏had👏the👏movie.
But someone posted a link to the raw no-sub version here in the comments, so i thought that could be a start and then searched on numerous subtitle websites to try and find something.
By the grace of yuri gods i found french subtitles (i think they exist bc the movie was featured at a french movie festival) which i then had translated into english by ai that's avaliable on the subtitle website.
Watched the movie with the subs and they seem to be at least 80% accurate! Yay, most can be easily understood! I'll put the link in the comment below⬇️ in the spoiler tag