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Incredible: "Freedom Is Not A Coincidence", says the title of the last episode
This drama made me laugh and cry and ripped my heart out and danced on it, and it did so beautifully with a moon marriage and metaphors about freedom. HAPPY END FOR OUR LESBIAN MAIN COUPLE.
It's cinematic. It's queer, it's wlw, it's lesbian, women take the stage. The women in this drama come alive through great acts of selflessness, of love, of sacrifice, and exercising their power. The women come alive through breaking the law, raging for justice in a misogynistic world, being mean, using violence as a defense; we the viewers are left to support women's rights and women's wrongs. This show is about all of that, and as a treat the women can go a little insane. The acting is top, from the main cast to the small roles, everyone gives their best and makes this world and the characters come alive.
Content Warning: sexual assault /rape, a male university teacher exploits a female student and then it ends in that very traumatic rape scene. She then murders the guy with scissors, stabbing him 19 times.
This drama is also about violence. Gendered violence connects all the women's stories like a red string. The side couples are heterosexual. There is straight romance, straight love, straight misery; and straight abusive relationships, though they take the b stage next to the lesbian relationship at the center.
This drama is also about grief. Grief for lost family members and friends and death and all that. This drama is also about freedom. Bell is unjustly imprisoned, her freedom taken away at the hands of others. This drama is also about humanity. Imprisoned, do we hold on to humanity? Love makes us monsters, and the loss of freedom makes us desperate. And yet we try to water the roses just right, so that they can bloom. There is a cat. If we can, we feed. it.
The cinematography is brilliant, the soundtrack is so fucking awesome, and there's an instant noodle ad where our girl Bell prepares the noodles and then takes a bite as the house she set on fire burns behind her, like, HELLO. That's what I want to see!!!!!
It's fucking brilliant and if you have 8 hours to spare and feel ready for the trigger warnings and their themes, you'll have a great time. I promise.
It's cinematic. It's queer, it's wlw, it's lesbian, women take the stage. The women in this drama come alive through great acts of selflessness, of love, of sacrifice, and exercising their power. The women come alive through breaking the law, raging for justice in a misogynistic world, being mean, using violence as a defense; we the viewers are left to support women's rights and women's wrongs. This show is about all of that, and as a treat the women can go a little insane. The acting is top, from the main cast to the small roles, everyone gives their best and makes this world and the characters come alive.
Content Warning: sexual assault /rape, a male university teacher exploits a female student and then it ends in that very traumatic rape scene. She then murders the guy with scissors, stabbing him 19 times.
This drama is also about violence. Gendered violence connects all the women's stories like a red string. The side couples are heterosexual. There is straight romance, straight love, straight misery; and straight abusive relationships, though they take the b stage next to the lesbian relationship at the center.
This drama is also about grief. Grief for lost family members and friends and death and all that. This drama is also about freedom. Bell is unjustly imprisoned, her freedom taken away at the hands of others. This drama is also about humanity. Imprisoned, do we hold on to humanity? Love makes us monsters, and the loss of freedom makes us desperate. And yet we try to water the roses just right, so that they can bloom. There is a cat. If we can, we feed. it.
The cinematography is brilliant, the soundtrack is so fucking awesome, and there's an instant noodle ad where our girl Bell prepares the noodles and then takes a bite as the house she set on fire burns behind her, like, HELLO. That's what I want to see!!!!!
It's fucking brilliant and if you have 8 hours to spare and feel ready for the trigger warnings and their themes, you'll have a great time. I promise.
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