starlit-dramas

LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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See you, lol.

Clearly you have a lot of strong feelings about this film. I'm glad; that's exactly what art is supposed to stir. ♡ If you have any links to the lesbian porn you've seen that's similar to The Handmaiden, I'd be much appreciative. I'm a sucker for good direction and writing.

Some people could encounter a million different interpretations of art, and still never see it as art at all . Ultimately, if you decide to interpret lesbian sex on film as artless porn regardless of the framing, then that's your loss and nobody else's, so I'm happy to let you be from now. Good day.

You do remind me of that character, but it was my bad for engaging. So many people disagreeing with a person and not one sign of critical reflection, just thin insults based on things like presumed age – I should've seen the signs before, and that was legitimately on me. Sense8's a good show if you can get over the whole sex = pornography and potentially specific LGBTQ+ hangup, though; it might be a good way of challenging potential biases, if you're ever interested.

My mistake for engaging with a brick wall. Take care.

Sorry to jump in, but you remind me quite strongly of a character in this scene (warnings for nudity / sex act depiction in the context of a lecture) :https://youtu.be/XHaRhU1fACE?si=0fRrT4KirvHb9ahg

Not to say that my own absolute favourite scenes in the film were the erotic ones myself, but I think in terms of a story where reclaiming a sense of sexual autonomy was important to the characters in terms of an overall personal autonomy, especially when there are still so few films that depict LGBTQ+ relationships as romances that honour character arcs, emotional intimacy, and capture sensuality – I think it forms a distinct identity as an erotic film despite my own preferences.

That said, I think the character in the clip I sent it captures it well: interpretation is where what is seen reveals the seer. If you see The Handmaiden as porn over art, then that will be what you choose to see it as – because it's most certainly not the only interpretation that exists for it. You're choosing to not see beyond your own biases.

That said, I hope that we all enjoy this drama! I know I'm excited.

I've been loving watching this drama week by week. The romance of the everyday set to café light, an empty office at night, the Seoul backstreets – the ongoing conflict between loyalty (to others and yourself, to your own principles) and an inextinguishable ambition exacerbated by a "results-based", ever-consuming society that calls for everything personal and relational to be burnt to the ground.

I love the stories that make a grandness of the mundane, and feel like there's been a steady buildup to something from the very start. I feel very well justified in my high hopes for this weekend. ♡

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I think slow-burns and the slice of life genre are often a harder sell to people. I think it's good so far (though I know my opinion is subjective). I think it's at least worth a shot if you like more mature-leaning stories.

Sameeee, I'm having a blast

Exactly!! You get it.

I don't know if anybody who lives outside of my mind will get this, but I feel like they would be the type of couple to still be in love a century or so and a couple great great grandkids into their relationship – who'll make the other a cup of tea to sit and watch the rainfall by the window, who'll pass each other the newspaper over breakfast while not needing to say a single other word. I could so, so easily imagine this couple growing old together. Anybody else?

I was thinking the same at first, but I continued and I haven't regretted it so far. ♡

I agree! It feels very naturally integrated.

I don't know if I can speak specifically for people who aren't all that into media / story analysis, but I feel like I've seen it referenced quite a lot – I feel like it's especially relevant for visual media, where a minute of dialogue (or a gun prop on stage) will be an extra expense that would likely be better cut to fit a budget if either not relevant, or relevant only as a direct red herring.

I saw somebody else online say "Chekhov's panic room"... and I think they may be right; I don't think it's a coincidence the panic room was referenced around the 2ML, and I think there's a good chance it'll be foreshadowing.

The way this is soooooooo cute 😭😭😭

I think it addresses that pretty well in-drama. Some presentations of non-neurotypical (or coded) behaviour will not be typical, and I relate to that (I've often felt that being autistic makes me feel like an "alien", and I find it interesting to see a literal spin of that). I've generally seen her being received well, though.