Great review! "The uniqueness of the story is that it doesn’t refer to these events passively, as something…
Wow thank you very much for your comment Kate 😁😁 Yes that’s so true indeed, other dramas have to sit down and take notes about how to make flashbacks right 😂
Thank you so much for sharing these cases that inspired to this drama. I'll read when I feel ready (since watching…
Other law dramas are nothing compare to this one for me 😂 Maybe because I use to watch law dramas which are basically mysteries, like “Law School” for example. Seeing crimes committed by kids really hit different. I looked away from the screen many times because I couldn’t watch.
Below are some facts from the cases that are similar with the drama and the sources.
The first case of the drama maybe is inspired by the Incheon Elementary School Murder case in 2017.
“According to the prosecution, Kim lured the girl into her place from a nearby park, telling her that she'd let her use her phone as the girl was trying to call her mom. She strangled her to death in her home and hid the body on the apartment's rooftop.”
“The court denied the defendants' argument that they were "mentally weak" at the time of the crime. It instead agreed with the prosecution that they were "very meticulous" in carrying out the premeditated crime.”
“Kim, a high school dropout, confessed to mutilating the girl's body and delivering part of it to Park, who she claimed to have met through a social networking site and instructed her to commit the murder. Park admitted to the abandonment of the dead body but not to conspiring to the murder.”
“A 42-year-old woman died after being hit on the head by a brick thrown from the rooftop of an apartment building by an 11-year-old boy.”
“While Kim's family demand the boy be punished, police booked him without physical detention on suspicions of accidental homicide. The case will not be referred to the prosecution as he is a minor.”
After reading the laudatory reviews, I decided to watch it, but already in the second series there was no living…
I agree that the first episodes (especially the first 2) are a little “off”. The humor is a little cringy too. The beginning of the series is more like a typical romcom and maybe weak but after the story becomes more serious and dramatic. Imo you can decide by the first episodes if you like the drama or not so if you continue it and it still doesn’t click with you then drop it.
I can NOT be the only one pissed at PD Choi? Lets forget the fact that some how this random girl shows up and…
It’s been over a half year since I’ve watched Mouse and my memory is blurry but I will try to explain it.
-> somehow this random girl shows up and somehow isnt found on the missing data childrens database
Officially, Choi Hong Joo was dead. Everyone believed that Head Hunter murdered both Park Du Seok’s children. (The detective who was chasing HH at the time) but we learn later on that the girl who has been found murdered back then wasn’t Choi Hong Joo, but another girl that was killed by Woo Jae Pil’s son (another detective). Woo Jae Pil had covered up the murder his son did by “making” the victim look like it was CHJ and it was murder by HH.
So the girl who was actually murdered was reported missing and CHJ was reported murdered but she was alive. It has to be mention that DNA tests didn’t exist back then also. The conclusion is that CHS isn’t in the bata of missing children database, the other girl was in her place.
-> she chose to say NOTHING
CHJ was a child with many traumatic experiences. She was filled with guilt because she thought she was the one who killed her brother so she couldn’t face them. She was like 5-6 years old and she was the accomplish of the Head Hunter and she witness him murder people, cutting their heads and boing inhuman experiments.
So, like Ko Moo Chi, CHJ had many complexes due to her past. Was stupid that CHJ did not return to her parents? Yes, but many complexes are like this. Like many people due to a traumatic experience with a dog when they were little are now afraid of even a small helpless puppy. From other people this seems illogical but they have a legit reason to afraid this puppy and it’s difficult for them to overcome this and move on.
As I have already written in my review, the writer made an analogy about CHJ cowardice to face her parents and return home, with one of the characters of the Tale of The Wizard of Oz. In Mouse we see how CHJ matured, forgave, acknowledged herself and finally find the courage to takes responsibility for her actions.
when will netflix have this series? it is such a good psychological thriller series.
The only thing we can do as viewers is to request Mouse to Netflix’s page here: https://help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest If the requests are many, then Netflix will respond (I want to believe)
Yes exactly!The more I analyze the story the more I think of “How only one human being wrote this story?”…
Yes I found very interesting all the things she said in the interview. There we were eye-opening. And I also understand why sometimes thing with a drama go wrong because of the miscommunication between the writer and the director. I was really sad seen that this happened with drama Black. I haven’t finished this drama yet but I want to complete it and then read the original scrip, so I can she the original story. I really want to know what Choi Ran had in mind.
Oh I understand what you mean. Sometimes having a “safe” character as a protagonist can make the story flat indeed. Taking risk and make a character flawless and more complex can lead the story to many unexpected and interesting paths.
Hmm not exactly, let’s say she was “hospitalized” and it was on her own will so she could be cured. As the webtoon ends when her friends visit her Idk if she ended up been cured or not. She was happy that she could she her friends and she wasn’t alone anymore.
I don’t know which end I prefer the most. Webtoon’s end was kind of open and drama’s one might require a second season (which won’t be based on the webtoon’s storyline anymore).
For now I think webtoon’s end was better because it was an end and everyone move on. I’d like it if Netflix make a good 2nd season though.
Yes and no. In the webtoon, after the explosion the government sends an operation to clear the dead bodies and the find Nam Ra. Nam Ra decides to stay on the center of the disease control so they can run her test. In webtoon they didn’t kill the mutants like in the drama and Nam Ra was the only mutant they found.
In the end everyone tried to go back to their lives, Ohn Jo wrote a book about their days in school, and they visited Nam Ra at the center
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Falling Flower is so nostalgic song. YAMS has beautiful music
Yes that’s so true indeed, other dramas have to sit down and take notes about how to make flashbacks right 😂
Maybe because I use to watch law dramas which are basically mysteries, like “Law School” for example.
Seeing crimes committed by kids really hit different. I looked away from the screen many times because I couldn’t watch.
The first case of the drama maybe is inspired by the Incheon Elementary School Murder case in 2017.
“According to the prosecution, Kim lured the girl into her place from a nearby park, telling her that she'd let her use her phone as the girl was trying to call her mom. She strangled her to death in her home and hid the body on the apartment's rooftop.”
“The court denied the defendants' argument that they were "mentally weak" at the time of the crime. It instead agreed with the prosecution that they were "very meticulous" in carrying out the premeditated crime.”
“Kim, a high school dropout, confessed to mutilating the girl's body and delivering part of it to Park, who she claimed to have met through a social networking site and instructed her to commit the murder. Park admitted to the abandonment of the dead body but not to conspiring to the murder.”
Source: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20170922009500315
“She then handed over a part of the victim’s remains to an accomplice, aged 19, who disposed of the remains.”
“It was also revealed that the defendant, whose identity is withheld, messaged an accomplice saying”
“(I am) going on the hunt,” before murdering the victim.”
Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170615000784
The brick case (2011)
“A 42-year-old woman died after being hit on the head by a brick thrown from the rooftop of an apartment building by an 11-year-old boy.”
“While Kim's family demand the boy be punished, police booked him without physical detention on suspicions of accidental homicide. The case will not be referred to the prosecution as he is a minor.”
Source: https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.amp.asp?newsIdx=94766
The youth counseling case
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.amp.asp?newsIdx=12663
Imo you can decide by the first episodes if you like the drama or not so if you continue it and it still doesn’t click with you then drop it.
-> somehow this random girl shows up and somehow isnt found on the missing data childrens database
Officially, Choi Hong Joo was dead. Everyone believed that Head Hunter murdered both Park Du Seok’s children. (The detective who was chasing HH at the time) but we learn later on that the girl who has been found murdered back then wasn’t Choi Hong Joo, but another girl that was killed by Woo Jae Pil’s son (another detective).
Woo Jae Pil had covered up the murder his son did by “making” the victim look like it was CHJ and it was murder by HH.
So the girl who was actually murdered was reported missing and CHJ was reported murdered but she was alive. It has to be mention that DNA tests didn’t exist back then also. The conclusion is that CHS isn’t in the bata of missing children database, the other girl was in her place.
-> she chose to say NOTHING
CHJ was a child with many traumatic experiences. She was filled with guilt because she thought she was the one who killed her brother so she couldn’t face them. She was like 5-6 years old and she was the accomplish of the Head Hunter and she witness him murder people, cutting their heads and boing inhuman experiments.
So, like Ko Moo Chi, CHJ had many complexes due to her past. Was stupid that CHJ did not return to her parents? Yes, but many complexes are like this. Like many people due to a traumatic experience with a dog when they were little are now afraid of even a small helpless puppy. From other people this seems illogical but they have a legit reason to afraid this puppy and it’s difficult for them to overcome this and move on.
As I have already written in my review, the writer made an analogy about CHJ cowardice to face her parents and return home, with one of the characters of the Tale of The Wizard of Oz.
In Mouse we see how CHJ matured, forgave, acknowledged herself and finally find the courage to takes responsibility for her actions.
If the requests are many, then Netflix will respond (I want to believe)
Oh I understand what you mean. Sometimes having a “safe” character as a protagonist can make the story flat indeed. Taking risk and make a character flawless and more complex can lead the story to many unexpected and interesting paths.
I don’t know which end I prefer the most. Webtoon’s end was kind of open and drama’s one might require a second season (which won’t be based on the webtoon’s storyline anymore).
For now I think webtoon’s end was better because it was an end and everyone move on. I’d like it if Netflix make a good 2nd season though.
In webtoon they didn’t kill the mutants like in the drama and Nam Ra was the only mutant they found.
In the end everyone tried to go back to their lives, Ohn Jo wrote a book about their days in school, and they visited Nam Ra at the center