Hi! I haven't watched The Victim's Game before, but after reading the synopsis of TVG, I would presume that that…
Thank you for being interested in reading my reviews HAHA I didn't think that anyone would show interest in them because most of the time I think I'm just typing whatever's in my jumbled-up brain :") I'm thinking of writing a review for TVG too, after I consolidate all my thoughts and insights and group them according to the different themes and topics of the drama! With dramas with heavy topics like this I tend to be more careful when I write so it'll probably take me some time before I do post a review about it!! :D
Hi! I haven't watched The Victim's Game before, but after reading the synopsis of TVG, I would presume that that…
Hi Becky! I'm back here at this comment thread after watching TVG in one sitting yesterday. :") It was one heck of an emotional and mind-boggling ride, but to properly answer your question above now after having watched both TSF and TVG, I would say that personally for me, TSF was still a more traumatic experience for me in terms of how the social issue was explored and handled throughout the movie.
TVG's plot definitely did raise awareness on different social topics, especially the drama's central social issue, and the production team made a pretty good attempt at weaving these different issues into the central message they were trying to convey. The result of all these was a beautiful message of having hope and strength to stay alive, and although the process of watching the drama was tough, it still left me with more optimism about what we as individuals can do to help those around us facing such issues.
However, TSF's portrayal of its main social topic and how it all played out was really cold and ruthless (at least to me), and it was especially the ending of the movie that left me unsettled and worried. I felt an immense feeling of powerlessness after watching TSF, albeit also feeling a little hope, and that was mostly because of the fact that the sexual abuse portrayed in the movie was so deeply rooted in the system that it would be hard to predict whether the characters' individual efforts would be enough to change the situation. Overall it's still more of an intense, brutal look into the problem of systemic abuse, which ultimately makes it a harder watch for me.
I have a different outlook on the part where you'd mentioned that TVG is about the evil in people though. While I do agree that the drama had showed us how a person's actions can break others and push them to extreme desperations, I wouldn't consider that as truly 'evil', as the characters were ultimately fueled by their beliefs, their past experiences, and they made a choice that they believed was the best solution to their problems. Yes, the main villain was manipulative and what she did fueled the motivations of each victim to their tragic end, but her character was also a complex one: she ended up being who she was because of her painful past, and out of her own desperation, she ended up seeing more worth in death rather than being alive. Dark as it may be, but I think essentially she merely influenced people to believe the same thing she believed in too (to see death as an act of courage, an act of self-sacrifice to fulfil others' wishes), and the choice was still left to the victims themselves to make, while she provided them with the tools and methods to execute their decisions. It doesn't make her essentially 'evil' I think, her character just showed us viewers how catastrophic the outcome can be when we allow someone to sink deep into their dark thoughts. And that's exactly why the drama has a central message of letting viewers see the effects of one choosing death, and the hopeful possibilities that will await them if they had made a different choice instead.
Hi! I haven't watched The Victim's Game before, but after reading the synopsis of TVG, I would presume that that…
Wow, reading your thoughts on TVG makes me really inclined to watch the drama already, I will definitely check it out then! Regarding how difficult it is to sit through TSF, without comparing it to TVG since I haven't watched TVG before, personally I would say that it's frankly quite hard to sit through the movie as there's just too many scenes that are so brutally realistic that when I watched it and imagined all these happening in real life (which it did), my heart really sank and it took me quite a while before I could feel okay again. It took a lot of effort on my part to think through all the social implications of the issues in the movie, as well as the origins of such issues, and how I, as an average human, can do my part to contribute to making a little change in society to hopefully prevent such horrible events from happening again. That process of me internalizing the lessons that this movie taught helped me sort of get out of the dark stage I was in after I watched the movie. I don't know how you would react to this movie, but I still would like to recommend that you watch this movie despite how tough the process can be, because this really is a necessary watch and a great wakeup call for us viewers!
I watched The Victims' Game... If you have seen that, would you say this movie is harder to watch than Victims'…
Hi! I haven't watched The Victim's Game before, but after reading the synopsis of TVG, I would presume that that drama and this movie has very different themes and would hence be quite different? Sorry to not be able to help you out regarding this, and thank you for introducing TVG to me, it sounds like a drama I would enjoy watching!! :))
wait till you read the novel for this movie, the feels just... intensifies... :")
the movie isn't an adaptation, it's an original script, but they did release a novel of the same title after this movie was released with a more fleshed out storyline that provides much more details about the scenes we see in the movie! i'm not sure if there is a translated version online though, i bought a physical copy of the novel to read.
Lol Whaaa is your heart made of stone!? Jk but why? I know the story was a little choppy and the ending wasnt…
i agree with the part where u said not everything was properly tied together and that some storyline progressions should've been fleshed out alot more :") but then some parts which i had thought were redundant/unnecessary and were included with no clear purpose in the movie, i got my answers to those while reading the novel! so i do see the intention behind the movie team in including such scenes; just wished that they'd built upon them abit more... i think that everyone should have a chance to read the full novel to supplement this movie bc there's just so much details that were not included in the movie!
Welcome to the fandom! We still have season 2 coming up in March! Don't forget to rate it and mark it as completed…
glad to have found this wonderful fandom :DD i already rated this a 10 because it's phenomenal and i LOVE this :") also eagerly waiting for the next season!!!!
excuse me where have i been all my life how did i JUST find out about this???? binge watched in a night and i sobbed through heaps of tissue paper oh lord this is a masterpiece
TVG's plot definitely did raise awareness on different social topics, especially the drama's central social issue, and the production team made a pretty good attempt at weaving these different issues into the central message they were trying to convey. The result of all these was a beautiful message of having hope and strength to stay alive, and although the process of watching the drama was tough, it still left me with more optimism about what we as individuals can do to help those around us facing such issues.
However, TSF's portrayal of its main social topic and how it all played out was really cold and ruthless (at least to me), and it was especially the ending of the movie that left me unsettled and worried. I felt an immense feeling of powerlessness after watching TSF, albeit also feeling a little hope, and that was mostly because of the fact that the sexual abuse portrayed in the movie was so deeply rooted in the system that it would be hard to predict whether the characters' individual efforts would be enough to change the situation. Overall it's still more of an intense, brutal look into the problem of systemic abuse, which ultimately makes it a harder watch for me.
I have a different outlook on the part where you'd mentioned that TVG is about the evil in people though. While I do agree that the drama had showed us how a person's actions can break others and push them to extreme desperations, I wouldn't consider that as truly 'evil', as the characters were ultimately fueled by their beliefs, their past experiences, and they made a choice that they believed was the best solution to their problems. Yes, the main villain was manipulative and what she did fueled the motivations of each victim to their tragic end, but her character was also a complex one: she ended up being who she was because of her painful past, and out of her own desperation, she ended up seeing more worth in death rather than being alive. Dark as it may be, but I think essentially she merely influenced people to believe the same thing she believed in too (to see death as an act of courage, an act of self-sacrifice to fulfil others' wishes), and the choice was still left to the victims themselves to make, while she provided them with the tools and methods to execute their decisions. It doesn't make her essentially 'evil' I think, her character just showed us viewers how catastrophic the outcome can be when we allow someone to sink deep into their dark thoughts. And that's exactly why the drama has a central message of letting viewers see the effects of one choosing death, and the hopeful possibilities that will await them if they had made a different choice instead.