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The Weight of a Life

This is my first review here, and I felt compelled to write it because this film left an ache that wouldn’t fade. Some films don’t ask for your attention, they quietly take hold of it. This one does exactly that. It doesn’t rely on grand gestures or loud statements; instead, it unfolds with a calm, unsettling clarity that stays with you long after it ends. It reveals a truth we usually step around, a truth that feels too sharp to look at directly.

What struck me most is the film’s attempt to level the hierarchy we have built between ourselves, animals, and even trees. It quietly challenges the viewer: if your heart aches at the death of a human, do you feel even a fraction of that sorrow when a pig falls, or when a tree is cut down? And if their loss can so easily be dismissed with the phrase ‘no other choice,’ then what keeps us from using the same justification for a human life?

This question unsettles me because it exposes how selectively we apply empathy, how readily we excuse one death while mourning another. It makes me wonder: are our feelings only based on familiarity, or on the assumption that human life is somehow more valuable?
Is the value we assign to life truly inherent, or just a comforting idea we cling to?

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Loved it

At last a BL that was a BL. A serious series that I binged watched because I couldn't press the stop
button. I've watch some Bls that were not up to standard but this was what BLs are about. Two young men falling in love but having to hide their feelings one Saenkaew the son of a homophobic abusive father who threatened the life of the man he loved Sasin. A woman Pin whose father was only interested in their daughter marrying Saenkaew to pay a debt and although she
knew of the love between both young men she still
wanted to go through with the arranged marriage..
In fact I hated her whining. None of this chaos would have happened if people hadn't looked down on two men falling in deeply in love. I wish there was more BLs like this one with lots of drama and angst. The two male leads were amazing. Their chemistry was full on. Having the MLs fight for their love to the end is what sets this apart. No miscommunication, no hurtful words exchanged, and with great acting from the whole cast to
boot. Thanks to the director and scripwriters for giving us this little gem.. Thank you to everyone who was involved in the making of this series. actors.. actresses. I will definitely come back to watch this series again..Score 110%

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Bizarre...Love to see a remake with age appropriate cast

I have been saving this C Drama in my watchlist for awhile now as I have seen the high ratings and finally have the time to check it out. I don't have a problem with long 70+ episodes dramas and also love some older productions, if it's a good drama, I will watch it no matter how long it is. So.. The drama started with an interesting storyline, sad but interesting, and I was especially excited and looking forward to the young ML/FL story development. And what followed was sooo . Bizarre that I am still wondering what happened. Namely, you see the young men and young/kids, ladies sitting in a school and reciting some poems and in the next take..ready for this... ? In the same school there are these older, middle aged men in their 40s and ladies in their 30' s sitting in the seats, it's like the story travelled 30 years into the future? How do you go from the kids/students aged between 8 - 14 to age 40 or so and still in school at that age? Then they keep saying " young master this and young master that". Like they are trying to hypnotize the audience to believing that these guys are in their youth/20's... and at a marieagble age which according to history, in ancient China, girls start at 15-16 up to mid twenties and men in their 20' ( definitely not in their 40's). So how did we jump the huge age gap in time? Also, bizarre age discrepancies like 5th Miss aged to 30 something and yet, her mother's concubines' age appearance stayed the same. Or the ML father appears to be almost the same age as his son? What are the casting agents and directors were thinking? Did they not read the original story/ book? The actors are great and very professional but maybe not for a role that calls for 20 some years old men and very young women. Sorry. I just simply can't watch 70+episodes forcing my brain to imagine the cast being the age that they are supposed to be and not even close to being in this drama . A+ for effort and I would really like to watch this story if it was ever remade with the age appropriate cast. I am sure the original story writer would agree. I have also noticed that in some C dramas the actors' ages are reversed, namely teenagers are playing roles that calls for a more mature cast and that makes the drama look like a highschool play, or as in this case, middle aged man/women are playing 20 somethings role. What is that about?

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stop hating on Ming

To be honest, I personally think it's good that Ming got a happy ending with Joe. Of course, he did a lot of inappropriate things, including lying and manipulation. However, let's remember Ming's phone call to Joe before his stunt scene where he died. If he was a bad person, he could have found a replacement for Joe, he wouldn't have had to cry and wait for him to come back. Despite this, he still believed that Joe would return. It's sad that Ming had to lose Joe to appreciate him. Unfortunately, many people in life don't appreciate something because they don't think about loss.
If we were to talk about a BAD CHARACTER, it would be Tong. I really can't stand him. I think he saw that Joe had a crush on him, so he took advantage of that fact.
- He deliberately married May for a comfortable life.
- He ran up debts that May's family paid off.
- Because of him, Joe almost died.

I also thought that so many people hate Ming, but compared to other characters from other series, he really wasn't that bad. It was shown how he undergoes an internal change and how much he loves Joe and how much he is willing to sacrifice for him. I just thought about Vegas from Kinnposche, who was a terribly evil character (my favorite 😂), and yet I saw that many people were happy with the positive ending for Vegas. So why should I hate Ming? :(

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Another drama about lying and the consequences and misunderstandings that result

People in Korea must lie more than any other people on Earth because there is no other way to explain how viewers can just take at face value the notion that one might lie to get a job and then lie to all your coworkers, and this is not offensive behavior to viewers. No matter what comes later, the FL is a person of very poor character and judgement. Add to that the ridiculous scene where she is about to sleep with the ML but asks that he shower first, then gets a call while he's showering and then just runs away while he's in the shower with no word to him at all, leaving him worried and confused with no closure or clue as to what happened to her or why. That's psychopathic behavior but in Korean Drama-land it's just another Friday where ever single drama has to revolve around lying and the consequences and misunderstandings that follow. This is all the more sad because the show begins with her being honest and it is the reason the ML fell for her in the first place and for awhile was one of the most refreshing Kdrama shows in some time.

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Finally a love story that felt real

I am gonna be honest, I watch lots of k drama that are good for the environment, for the funny moments, for the sad and dramatic moments, but even if the love story is the center usually is the thing that feels less true, all the messages about life, works and many things are felt more then the love between 2 people that even if are beautiful and adult usually have (when you are lucky) 1 ex bf or gf.
Instead here I need to say the love story has a sense and feels true from beginning to end, I love how it criticize the marriage culture in Korea and how it criticize the way woman are seen if they behave freely. Even if the FL is a bit over the top (she is so strong and she seems to be able to do every manly thing) I love that they made her that strong and that independent, and I love almost every other female character too, how her mother speaks against the patriarchal system, and how the character of the famous divorced actress is proud to be friend with her and how she get to the fact that what the other people thinks of you, whatever, let them think. The most i love about the series is that "sex" is not a forbidden word, and that the protagonist doesn't even have to say I love you before doing it, at the first offical date. This are elements that made the drama feel more true to me. I thought that in the finale there would've been the usual wedding scene anyway, because "loves changes you" and all this crap as it happens in many dramas, instead FL doesn't change, she stay herself, but this doesn't mean that she can't find love, and the ML loves her for this reason too, for how different she is from what you expect for a woman in Korea. I also loved the storyline of the ex of the ML, because her story is the one of someone who tried to be a strong woman from the inside of the society, at its rules, but inevitably this rules guides you to unhappiness, she lost love to this, I found it great the analogy between her and the FL. For an easy 10 episode k drama that I thought it was a relaxed EtL I think it was amazing.
Maybe the second couple could use a couple episodes more but I think for saying what needed to be said it's ok this way.

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Good if you like action, bad if you like to think critically

I, The Executioner is quite ambitious in its production and script. On this aspect, it is fruitful concerning the action scenes, its aesthetic scenes and color, and the acting. However, the acting was basically carrying the movie. Everyone did an amazing job, particularly Jung Hae-in, given a strangely written character, somehow managed to elevate such an antagonist. But, looking past the acting, the rest of the movie falls flat. When it comes to its themes and politics, it somewhat skims its critiques and observations and is afraid to truly say something. Towards the end, its themes of justice become jumbled, and one is unsure what the movie's message is. It will explore every aspect of justice, but never clearly get to its point. While watching, I was trying to be kind in my analysis, thinking perhaps its circus-like production is a commentary on its themes; however, I believe the movie should have taken itself more seriously (the music was somewhat... random).

in conclusion, it looks good, but it's mediocre.

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Low IQ mystery thriller drama about how useless the Korean NIS is

For those who don't wanna read it all and just wanna know: don't bother with this drama. Unless you were dropped on your head as a kid. Then, you might enjoy it. How much? It depends on how many times you were dropped.
It has a feel of a nowadays tv show. They are assuming people are watching it on a 2nd monitor, or playing on their phone so the characters must tell you what happens and why. You will get flashbacks over flashbacks, meant as "remember this scene? See? Its about that thing. See, it all makes sense". Basically, they also assume you were dropped on your head...
Everything is full of plot devices. I'm not trying to make it bigger than it is. Every fking action is: people staring at each other instead of moving, ducking, doing something, anything; low IQ special agents; plot devices, it just so happens that people do this or that, it just so happens that events take place just at the right moment, it just so happens that a new piece of the puzzle drops from the sky; and so on and so on. Basically, you must ask yourself "what it'd be the worst possible action to take?" and thats exactly what it is going to happen. Why? because any other way would mean the drama would've ended. And we can't have that now, right?

The acting is sht. Or more exactly, there is no acting going on. People yelling, people dropping exposition dialogue, people trying to look smart, people trying to look evil? Sure. Acting? No. Ok, there are a couple (maybe 5, mostly involving the kid or about him) of scenes when acting does take place, but that a drop of water into the sea, so its easier to say there isn't.
Next. The cinematography is meh. Apart from a couple of super good shots, everything else is meh. The fight-choreography is bad. In a drama where ML knows taekwondo.... He mostly spins and he pushes his opponents. Oh, opponents with guns that miss him btw... Any "action" scene is filmed as "shaky cam" scene. Also, a lot of deceiving film editing, trying to make you believe one thing, only to reveal the "truth" in a flashback. So, visually nothing is good.
Audio. Decent enough. The mixing and selection of tracks is made accordingly to the scene occurring. The OST is ok, might even say thats on theme with this drama.

And now the "good" parts. Everything is sht. As mentioned earlier, plot devices everywhere. You need something to happen so that the next scene can occur? Don't worry, it will, no matter how dumb or unbelievable it should be. The ML will deduce things he's not supposed to, based on one general thing, "I've saved your like then". How? Why? Which time? *insert flashback of a specific scene, the character had no idea of, because he wasn't there yet, but the viewers know it* Now, the ML also knows. How? Don't know, don't care. Then red herring all around. Characters talking by themselves, aloud, so other people can hear their "thoughts". Then, "every" piece of dialogue is mostly a expo dump for the viewers. "So we can't do X cause Y will happens? Ah, I see." Even though all the people involved in said discussion already know (or should know) all of that. Also, the "evil guy speech"... Geez...
What else? Character development. Yeah, right... World-building, pff. Oh, the pacing. Right, right, the pacing. Well, the pacing is... Just is. I mean the drama is supposed to be a non-stop action thing, so it is supposed to have a high pacing. But nothing important happens, also its empty calories, so basically it just makes you dizzy.

Yeah, I should stop here. I can't say more without spoilers and I don't wanna. Maybe someone really really wants to see it. Why? Don't know. I wanted to binge it and quickly be done with it, but I started a game of taking a shot for every right guessing of "the bad person escapes now, this person is evil, he'll foil their plans, this is a red herring, she'll turn around, they'll talk nonsense for 3 minutes, its a trap" etc. Needless to say, I got hammered pretty quickly. Also, the next day I had to rewatch it..... *Sigh*
Its a weak drama, with low IQ events. From the synopsis we learn that an accident happens, blah blah. Well, I was bored when watching said accident. And after, too. I know it was supposed to be sad, but after all that bad acting and dialogue I was just bored and waiting for it to end already. A feeling that was applied to every following episode.
So, it gets a rating of 3. Mostly for the audio and some tiny bits and pieces of other good/meh stuff. No rewatch value, obviously. If you're here for the actors, watch some of their other work. Luckily I've watched this drama later than when it aired, so I can say it never got a second season. Btw the 1st season ends in whats supposed to be a cliffhanger. They hoped this sht would get a new season :)))))
Have a lovely evening.

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The Yakuza boss is just so... nice

I would never have thought that the Yakuza bosses would be the ones to seem to understand the meaning of consent better than any one in dramaland. But here I am starting this review with these words as Mr Yakuza boss is just sp respectful and gets it waay better then the cops seem to do.

The drama has a few higly annoying, highly evil characters, they do not get to much screen time but whenever we finnaly get rid of one annoying evil another one is seen....

The rest of the cast is just so nice, fine they made a guy pee his pants, punishing the evil protecting the less evil... making me just wanna give them a big hug... who cars that they have guns....

The drama it self is however pretty bland, there are a few kind of passionate scenes but the kisses between them feel kind of awkward and lack all sence of passion, making it an okay watch but nothing really memorable...

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