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Park Jae Eon was more of a Demon
This drama solidifies the notion I had that Korean people have a very skewed idea about Catholicism. Either their Catholicism is VERY different from actual Catholicism or they have a very wrong idea about what it actually is.
Every time I watch a drama that somehow references Catholicism, I feel like I'm watching a version of a fairy tale, instead of referencing a religion. That probably isn't that inaccurate, since the Bible is a fictional book, but it is certainly not used as a feelgood story like a fairy tale.
I'm an atheist but I was raised Catholic and I couldn't get into the story because it made absolutely no sense to me. I still don't know if Jung Koo Won was a demon or the devil. If he was a demon there should be more of them and they should work for the devil and not for god. Here we see a demon who is slave to the clock, working to reach objectives in signing contracts, just like every salary person under capitalism. Even he is no match to capitalism in terms of evil.
I do like that they subverted the image of god from the western one. The powers and abilities of this god don't match the original ones, they make absolutely no sense. One of the things I like the most about mainly Korean and Japanese stories is that there is no definite line between good and evil, people can be and are both. Catholicism, as it's was adopted as a way to control the people, does draw that line. It's basically the story of good vs evil and evil being used as a deterrent to make people good. The devil being friends with and working with god doesn't make absolutely no sense. In this drama, the devil is pitiful and god shows no mercy, except for a random miracle. In terms of Catholicism, this drama makes no sense. Still, people converting and using Catholicism as a way to demand and get their will and salvation is on brand with western Catholicism.
The story is underwhelming, nonsensical, predictable, full of patriarchal tropes and annoying. I don't really have any remarks about it. Just another money grabber disguised as a drama. You know greed is one of the seven deadly sins, right?
Every time I watch a drama that somehow references Catholicism, I feel like I'm watching a version of a fairy tale, instead of referencing a religion. That probably isn't that inaccurate, since the Bible is a fictional book, but it is certainly not used as a feelgood story like a fairy tale.
I'm an atheist but I was raised Catholic and I couldn't get into the story because it made absolutely no sense to me. I still don't know if Jung Koo Won was a demon or the devil. If he was a demon there should be more of them and they should work for the devil and not for god. Here we see a demon who is slave to the clock, working to reach objectives in signing contracts, just like every salary person under capitalism. Even he is no match to capitalism in terms of evil.
I do like that they subverted the image of god from the western one. The powers and abilities of this god don't match the original ones, they make absolutely no sense. One of the things I like the most about mainly Korean and Japanese stories is that there is no definite line between good and evil, people can be and are both. Catholicism, as it's was adopted as a way to control the people, does draw that line. It's basically the story of good vs evil and evil being used as a deterrent to make people good. The devil being friends with and working with god doesn't make absolutely no sense. In this drama, the devil is pitiful and god shows no mercy, except for a random miracle. In terms of Catholicism, this drama makes no sense. Still, people converting and using Catholicism as a way to demand and get their will and salvation is on brand with western Catholicism.
The story is underwhelming, nonsensical, predictable, full of patriarchal tropes and annoying. I don't really have any remarks about it. Just another money grabber disguised as a drama. You know greed is one of the seven deadly sins, right?
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