watch “Close your Eyes before Dark “ it was exactly what i was looking for, also im still looking for more…
I think the recommendations for this are actually pretty good. Jungle Fish 2 was quite similar from what I remember. Lost Days went for a similar vibe but I personally didn't like it. No murder but psychological mysteries I thought were good were Kaseifu no Mita and Kazoku Game. Again, no murder but a similar topic (pressure at elite school) and insane twists can be found in the Gifted
I'm suuuuper worried about the progress tbh. Korea is just way too conservative to give us a bold ending that's not all "haha, no homo ;D". They introduced the chef as like The Straightest Man Alive and they already put in plot devices where in the end they can easily say that it was 100% only the queen who was in love with the king. The queen clearly already had been in love with the king and the chef's voice being gone makes it easy for the viewers to just think of the chef/queen as a foul-mouthed woman. And that's still hilarious but if they can introduce the king's sad childhood, why can't we have a dude question his sexuality? I know it's not over and so far, I like it a lot but I just can't see this not going totally sideways for me.
I could legit write essays about this but I have to say that I loved how everything in the drama happened because…
The plot hole at the end is still super frustrating though. Wtf. You're telling me that we're supposed to believe that the police can't tell if a corpse has been frozen for days or if someone has just freshly shot himself??????? And no one knew what the doctor looked like??????????? Or the teacher for that matter who had a picture of himself in his room???????? Ughhhhhhhhh.
I watched this almost ten years ago and I keep coming back to it. Every time I think that it can't possibly keep…
I could legit write essays about this but I have to say that I loved how everything in the drama happened because of vulnerability. Some characters were so close to the edge at all times. And then you had Chi-hoon and Mi-reu who arguably were the most emotionally stable (for different reasons) and who were good at getting shit done. When they weren't around, everything spun into madness. I loved that because this was about a school of very smart children and it would have been odd if everyone reacted the same. Like, Moo-yul and Mi-reu both had a grudge against Chi-hoon for the same reasons (= Chi-hoon being an impossible obstacle to pass) . But while Mi-reu got super upset when he thought Chi-hoon was dead (because he had already stopped caring about grades), Moo-yul literally considered leaving him to die (to lose the obstacle).
I also really loved the story of Young-jae. He started as a regular bully but the further the story progressed, the weaker he seemed because the point was that he had never been strong. He could act strong in his peer group but his victims were all weak. He completely lost his footing and clearly was a victim of abuse himself. I loved that they didn't just show him as evil but as a properly layered character that broke exactly because he probably was the weakest all along.
I watched this almost ten years ago and I keep coming back to it. Every time I think that it can't possibly keep up to my expectations and every time I love it as much as the first time. The storyline is mad (in a good way). The acting isn't always perfect and there are a few continuity errors but, man, I have rarely seen something where all the characters are fleshed out like this. I don't love every character but feel for them.
My favorite parts have to be: - the failed date songs. The music is really nice but the lyrics are hilarious (like when the tofu boy put a tissue over his hands and the lyrics were like "but then you look like a criminal who's led away by police") - the yokai who try to wreak havoc but are eventually known for being nice because one of them always repairs the things the other breaks- the fact that Yuki onna is a boy and Yuki otoko a girl - the design for the yokai that still makes it clear who they are - the oil-loving yokai being in love with the girl without a face and him being super puzzled about 95% of her reactions
The ending was so random... Like, whenever I see actors that belong to LDH (the agency that was created out of the music/dance group Exile) I know that something is up but it was SO random that the ending is basically just an e-girls/Exile dance promo (not a spoiler btw because that has zero to do with the rest of the movie).
I know that Naka Riisa's character is probably supposed to be in her mid-30s but it's SO distracting because I know she's my age in real life and if I had a son in high school age, I would've gotten pregnant in my teens. That's why I keep wondering about her character's age/timeline
This took me ages to finish... In the beginning I quite liked it for having such a controversial topic but by the end I hated everyone and stopped caring
I kinda am intringued on why Japanese have a different sense of hair style? Is it because the weather is cold,…
Different from other Asian countries you mean? Japanese always had pretty distinctive hairstyles compared to e.g. Koreans or Chinese. I don't know why but since many Japanese mainly consume Japanese media, I guess they end up copying what they see there rather than what they see abroad and that way it becomes a circle. I think that over the years it actually got better. The typical "pretty boy hair" 15 years ago looked insane sometimes
I really liked how the story unfolded in general but I have to say that the coincidence in the end bothered me a lot. Of all the people in the world she becomes friends with her son's fiancée? And of all people the fiancée asks her to talk to her son? Also, I love uncomfortable stories like this where you have to question your own morals but in the end I thought that the story became a little cheesy. You almost forget that the heroine is a psychopath and that she did not simply kill people out of kindness. Yes, we saw her kill a lot of bad men but murder is murder.
Hmmm.. Japanese shows tend to be like that though... I think I've grown accustomed to it
They do and if it's just an open ending that's usually okay with me but here they literally ended with a major cliffhanger and I think that's always a weird choice. In the manga, there are dozens of storylines unrelated to Shimura they could have chosen from. There they also only started to talk about his story in like volume 13. Idk... But in the end, it did make me read the manga so if that was the goal, they succeeded.
I haven't read the manga, so this is my opinion from watching the movie on its own: I kind of expected something…
Also, I'm sorry, but I couldn't take the Kinuko storyline seriously and one reason for that was her name because to me it sounds like kinoko (=mushroom)
I also really loved the story of Young-jae. He started as a regular bully but the further the story progressed, the weaker he seemed because the point was that he had never been strong. He could act strong in his peer group but his victims were all weak. He completely lost his footing and clearly was a victim of abuse himself. I loved that they didn't just show him as evil but as a properly layered character that broke exactly because he probably was the weakest all along.
- the failed date songs. The music is really nice but the lyrics are hilarious (like when the tofu boy put a tissue over his hands and the lyrics were like "but then you look like a criminal who's led away by police")
- the yokai who try to wreak havoc but are eventually known for being nice because one of them always repairs the things the other breaks- the fact that Yuki onna is a boy and Yuki otoko a girl
- the design for the yokai that still makes it clear who they are
- the oil-loving yokai being in love with the girl without a face and him being super puzzled about 95% of her reactions
Also, I love uncomfortable stories like this where you have to question your own morals but in the end I thought that the story became a little cheesy. You almost forget that the heroine is a psychopath and that she did not simply kill people out of kindness. Yes, we saw her kill a lot of bad men but murder is murder.