This drama is really cool and satisfying. I don't even have words to describe it or even complaints. It's just perfect.
My curiosity is, are the people with healing ability can't die? Their bodies easily regenerates no matter what. That's why they're the strongest. I just wonder how they can die, but I hope no one dies.
Also, this is set in 2018 right? So there's gonna be a 5 year time skip where the teenagers becomes adults and we might see them becoming agents. There's probably Season 2 for that... I've been already eagerly wanting for Season 2. This is a brilliant drama and they could expand it to its own universe like Marvel.
What is up with short episodes!!! North Korea black ops be like with battle scars and macho looking while the…
Lol that's because the NK ones are actively part of the military and they're more brutal. While the SK ones are just living as ordinary people and hasn't been in a mission for a long time. And the teachers has no ability unlike them.
Edit: No one asked, but the way you commented sounds like you're ignorantly mocking them, so I just pointed it out.
"Labyrinth of Cinema" is one of the most unique masterpiece I've watched and loved. It's 3 hours long and every parts are breathtaking, thought provoking and relatable. It shows the intersecting lines between the past, present and future with the connection of the people diving into war movies. The visuals are splendid with the splash of colors and it's also amusing how the characters are interactive to the viewers.
Here's some lines that left a deep impression on me:
“All you need is movies. I’ll go in the movies to know who I am. The things I don’t know, I want to know through movies. I see movies to figure out what it is. I visit movies.”
“Are movies reality or illusion? Movies are dreams, dreams are movies. It’s a wonderful world. Movies make the world a wonderful place.”
“As long as everyone behaves, the world’s peaceful.”
“No blood would been shed if we could see the consequences.”
“If we accepted that we’re all the same, there’d be peace.”
“So the audience gets to live? It’s as if the movies demand that I do something with my life. I’m also obliged to learn and change my thinking.”
“To young people who want a future where no one knows wars, we dedicate this movie with blessing and envy.”
I honestly love Moonlight Whispers and I've been using its poster as my profile photo since I created kisskh account in 2021. I've never changed it.
I don't like this kind of stuff and I'm personally against it in real life. But strangely, I like the characters and vibes of this movie. Something about it just pulls me in like a rabbit hole. I wanted to discover more of their own world of desire, madness and pain but with still a touch of innocence and vulnerability. It's an uncomfortable feeling, but it also feels fascinating to see how they dealed on their little secret and earned a sense of belonging with each other despite the toxicity. I would say this movie is my guilty pleasure.
"Fish Story" and "Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?" are both my favorite movies that left me in awe. They're similar for the weirdness, themes about music and how they conveyed the message of “music is life” is indeed real. These movies showed how music can also save humanity and the world in various ways. The inspirations and connections that music creates are limitless. It's mind blowing.
"Fish Story" and "Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?" are both my favorite movies that left me in awe. They're similar for the weirdness, themes about music and how they conveyed the message of “music is life” is indeed real. These movies showed how music can also save humanity and the world in various ways. The inspirations and connections that music creates are limitless. It's mind blowing.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time that left me wonderstruck for a long time. I love how strange and mysterious this is, with the exploration between aliens and humans. It felt like this movie casted a spell on me and it really gave a deep impression to me. The term "Before We Vanish" even became my favorite and I used it.
This movie also made me a fan of Takasugi Mahiro in 2018. He's the first Japanese actor that I really love. I particularly love his odd character in this movie that fascinated me.
"Midnight Maiden War" is one of my favorite movies. It's my type of movie. It's strange and deep that it felt like I was being hypnotized and getting pulled inside the main character's mind and their city. I could also feel his fascination and how he's gradually diving more to the mysteriousness of everything. The last scenes gave me goosebumps.
This movie kinda give off the same vibes as "Parasite in Love" and "Pluto". Their endings are such a blast.
I love fantasy since it brings a lot of creativity that fascinates me. I particularly love "Heaven's Bookstore" and its concept about humans only have 100 years to live - if they die at 30 in real world, they'll spend the rest of 70 in 'heaven' and wait until they reincarnate. This movie is so heartwarming and bittersweet. It feels more special for me since I believe in reincarnation.
"Thermae Romae" is such a unique and fun movie. It's really creative how a Roman architect from the past travels to the future Japan and gets ideas from their bath houses. I couldn't stop laughing while watching this movie and I'm also amazed with how they incorporated the different cultures and eras.
I don't like historical dramas since it's focused on politics and war. It's too heavy for me. Unless it's comedy or fantasy I could enjoy. Fantasy sageuk are usually time travel or supernatural creatures, so it's refreshing that "Alchemy of Souls" is a fantasy genre with literal magic and mages. It's beautiful, I love it!
This drama kinda reminds me of historical-fantasy manhwas. But instead of Western royal settings, it's Korean traditional. I've always wanted to see manhwas adapted to a kdrama. I'm happy that there's a fantasy historical-modern fusion genre like AOS, it's probably the first kind for a kdrama. I hope they would make more historical dramas like this.
The thing about "fusion" is even though this is a historical drama, the characters have short/bangs/colored hairs, cool styles and their mannerism isn't too formal as if they're in modern day. Plus, their timeline/era isn't really based on true history. It's so unique. It's one of the reasons why this drama is more interesting and it also made the visuals more stunning.
Tang Jun Sang captured my heart for his role and portrayal in "Move To Heaven". I just searched about him and I found out we're the same age. I'm surprised because he looks mature but he was only 16-17 years old while filming the drama (his character is 20). Wow. He's that good! I've seen the poster/a clip of "Racket Boys" before but I didn't know it was him. When I watched "Move To Heaven", I thought he's an underrated actor but he's actually a rookie. His first two lead dramas are successful. He knows to choose good scripts and he has a great potential. I'm looking forward to see more of his dramas.
"Long Love Letter" is one of my favorite jdramas. It's so bizarre to see a whole school being transported to another dimension and how the students and teachers try their best to survive in an alien environment. I cried a lot while watching this and it made me think deeply about my life, our environment and future.
It's originally a manga and had a movie adaptation "The Drifting Classroom" (1987) that is a bit different. I hope it will have a new remake. The concept and sci-fi part are so unique and this drama will definitely improved and look better if they make a new one.
“Withdrawing from society was the only way I could stay alive. I am alive. Uh... I am here right now. That’s all I’m doing.”
"Hikikomori Sensei" is an enlightening and sympathetic drama that deeply touched my heart. It's heartwarming to see a hikikimori survivor who became a teacher of a special class for students who have their own problems and can't or don't want to attend school, and how he's understanding and helping them. It's similar to my other favorite drama "Cat Street".
“Everyone can decide for themselves what they want to do. When things get really tough, it’s okay to run away from that painful place, that painful situation. Because what’s most important is your life. There are times you can be saved by running away. But you can’t spend the rest of your life running away. That is why... I want you to try just a little, take just one step... out of the STEP room.”
“Our preoccupation with other people is at bottom a means of getting away from ourselves.” — Eric Hoffer
"Koko wa Ima kara Rinri desu" is one of my favorite dramas that is personal and relatable to me. It's a philosophical drama that gave me realizations and new perspectives. I feel refreshed after watching it.
My favorite part is episode 6, about a quiet boy who chose not to speak:
“I get it now. Eating in silence is not so bad. Perhaps we believe too much in the power of words. No matter how many times we talk to each other, we may not be able to capture all of each other’s thoughts. The illusion that we understand each other can accelerate our incomprehension of each other. Soga-kun is very cautious about the power of words, and for this reason, by deciding not to speak, I think you are trying to face this world with sincerity... Or something. The very act of talking about you with words like this may in itself be nonsense. “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to become like other people” as Schopenhauer said, however, you do not want to be like other people. Even if you are forfeiting yourself, it would be two quarters. One-half. I figured it would be easier to get the message across if I didn't approximate. It might be a quarter, after all.”
“You said that things happened all these years made you change. But even without these things, we would still change, right?
You are right. We would change.
I was always wondering if we could go back to that day and nothing bad happened. Then we may not change and were really happy now.
Time made people change. But during that changing, we grew up. So we shouldn’t be afraid of changing. Instead we should feel grateful, for it made us know ourselves clearly and turned us into better people. We also learnt how to love through it.
There was a time I didn’t know how to face you because I hurt so many people around me. But actually the one I dared not face is myself. I dared not face my change. However, I forgot future is the most important.”
The most heartbreaking yet bittersweet scenes in dramas/movies is when they show the "what ifs and imaginations" with the happy timeline of the characters. Sometimes it's already fated, but one small choice can make such a big change in your future and how your life will turn out. I watched "Where The Lost Ones Go" in 2017 and now that the years has passed by, these lines hit deeper to me.
“We both seem to have made the same mistakes. We think that we’re like this abandoned house. Forgotten by the world. But we often forget, we’re the ones who trap ourselves. The world has always been out there.”
“But you shouldn’t decide whether you should live or die based on what you’ve said or what others have done. You only belong to you.”
“I only belong to me. Is this the answer I’ve been looking for?”
"Definitely Not Today" is a special drama for me and it also has the trope that I love. Two lonely strangers meeting each other, having a messy yet meaningful adventure and growing a special bond together. I love the characters and their chemistry. I got attached to them and I particularly could relate to the male lead. The humor about him and his monologues are funny yet bittersweet.
PS. The OSTs are so beautiful. I still have it from my playlist which I downloaded from YouTube mp3. I always listen to it and sometimes I imagine that I created those songs.
"Someday Or One Day" is a genius, unique and mind blowing masterpiece! It kinda reminded me of my favorite movie, "Tomorrow I Will Date With Yesterday's You". It's so confusing and complex yet beautiful and special. A love that transcends time and space. It's just fantasy, but it opened a new horizon to me. Their love left an incredible impact on me, to the point where it made me think what if this really happened in real life. The universe is so massive and endless, but even our world alone is still unexplored and full of mysteries.
"Reset" is one of the craziest drama that made me feel extremely frustrated and exhausted while watching it. The characters are stuck in a loop and they've gone from victims to suspects to heroes. I was rooting for them, then I didn't care about them, and over again. This drama gave me mixed reactions but I'm glad the ending was good.
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My curiosity is, are the people with healing ability can't die? Their bodies easily regenerates no matter what. That's why they're the strongest. I just wonder how they can die, but I hope no one dies.
Also, this is set in 2018 right? So there's gonna be a 5 year time skip where the teenagers becomes adults and we might see them becoming agents. There's probably Season 2 for that... I've been already eagerly wanting for Season 2. This is a brilliant drama and they could expand it to its own universe like Marvel.
Edit: No one asked, but the way you commented sounds like you're ignorantly mocking them, so I just pointed it out.
Here's some lines that left a deep impression on me:
“All you need is movies. I’ll go in the movies to know who I am. The things I don’t know, I want to know through movies. I see movies to figure out what it is. I visit movies.”
“Are movies reality or illusion? Movies are dreams, dreams are movies. It’s a wonderful world. Movies make the world a wonderful place.”
“As long as everyone behaves, the world’s peaceful.”
“No blood would been shed if we could see the consequences.”
“If we accepted that we’re all the same, there’d be peace.”
“So the audience gets to live? It’s as if the movies demand that I do something with my life. I’m also obliged to learn and change my thinking.”
“To young people who want a future where no one knows wars, we dedicate this movie with blessing and envy.”
I don't like this kind of stuff and I'm personally against it in real life. But strangely, I like the characters and vibes of this movie. Something about it just pulls me in like a rabbit hole. I wanted to discover more of their own world of desire, madness and pain but with still a touch of innocence and vulnerability. It's an uncomfortable feeling, but it also feels fascinating to see how they dealed on their little secret and earned a sense of belonging with each other despite the toxicity. I would say this movie is my guilty pleasure.
This movie also made me a fan of Takasugi Mahiro in 2018. He's the first Japanese actor that I really love. I particularly love his odd character in this movie that fascinated me.
This movie kinda give off the same vibes as "Parasite in Love" and "Pluto". Their endings are such a blast.
This drama kinda reminds me of historical-fantasy manhwas. But instead of Western royal settings, it's Korean traditional. I've always wanted to see manhwas adapted to a kdrama. I'm happy that there's a fantasy historical-modern fusion genre like AOS, it's probably the first kind for a kdrama. I hope they would make more historical dramas like this.
The thing about "fusion" is even though this is a historical drama, the characters have short/bangs/colored hairs, cool styles and their mannerism isn't too formal as if they're in modern day. Plus, their timeline/era isn't really based on true history. It's so unique. It's one of the reasons why this drama is more interesting and it also made the visuals more stunning.
(this is a copy paste from my old tweet)
It's originally a manga and had a movie adaptation "The Drifting Classroom" (1987) that is a bit different. I hope it will have a new remake. The concept and sci-fi part are so unique and this drama will definitely improved and look better if they make a new one.
"Hikikomori Sensei" is an enlightening and sympathetic drama that deeply touched my heart. It's heartwarming to see a hikikimori survivor who became a teacher of a special class for students who have their own problems and can't or don't want to attend school, and how he's understanding and helping them. It's similar to my other favorite drama "Cat Street".
“Everyone can decide for themselves what they want to do. When things get really tough, it’s okay to run away from that painful place, that painful situation. Because what’s most important is your life. There are times you can be saved by running away. But you can’t spend the rest of your life running away. That is why... I want you to try just a little, take just one step... out of the STEP room.”
"Koko wa Ima kara Rinri desu" is one of my favorite dramas that is personal and relatable to me. It's a philosophical drama that gave me realizations and new perspectives. I feel refreshed after watching it.
My favorite part is episode 6, about a quiet boy who chose not to speak:
“I get it now. Eating in silence is not so bad. Perhaps we believe too much in the power of words. No matter how many times we talk to each other, we may not be able to capture all of each other’s thoughts. The illusion that we understand each other can accelerate our incomprehension of each other. Soga-kun is very cautious about the power of words, and for this reason, by deciding not to speak, I think you are trying to face this world with sincerity... Or something. The very act of talking about you with words like this may in itself be nonsense. “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to become like other people” as Schopenhauer said, however, you do not want to be like other people. Even if you are forfeiting yourself, it would be two quarters. One-half. I figured it would be easier to get the message across if I didn't approximate. It might be a quarter, after all.”
You are right. We would change.
I was always wondering if we could go back to that day and nothing bad happened. Then we may not change and were really happy now.
Time made people change. But during that changing, we grew up. So we shouldn’t be afraid of changing. Instead we should feel grateful, for it made us know ourselves clearly and turned us into better people. We also learnt how to love through it.
There was a time I didn’t know how to face you because I hurt so many people around me. But actually the one I dared not face is myself. I dared not face my change. However, I forgot future is the most important.”
The most heartbreaking yet bittersweet scenes in dramas/movies is when they show the "what ifs and imaginations" with the happy timeline of the characters. Sometimes it's already fated, but one small choice can make such a big change in your future and how your life will turn out. I watched "Where The Lost Ones Go" in 2017 and now that the years has passed by, these lines hit deeper to me.
“But you shouldn’t decide whether you should live or die based on what you’ve said or what others have done. You only belong to you.”
“I only belong to me. Is this the answer I’ve been looking for?”
"Definitely Not Today" is a special drama for me and it also has the trope that I love. Two lonely strangers meeting each other, having a messy yet meaningful adventure and growing a special bond together. I love the characters and their chemistry. I got attached to them and I particularly could relate to the male lead. The humor about him and his monologues are funny yet bittersweet.
PS. The OSTs are so beautiful. I still have it from my playlist which I downloaded from YouTube mp3. I always listen to it and sometimes I imagine that I created those songs.