This is a story of revenge. It’s a Korean drama with English subtitles (8 episode tv series).
I’m only on episode1 but already I am rooting for the girl to exact revenge on all those assholes/bullies. Including her POS “homeroom teacher.”
Does anyone else root for the “evil” characters in shows?
I guess technically she’s the “evil” character as she’s going around exacting revenge, but those people were assholes. So is it really wrong for the bullies to get bullied? Personally, I don’t think so.
I’m only on episode1 but I’m sure the ending will be some kind of variation of the protagonist realizing what she’s doing is “wrong” or some shit (but no spoilers please).
UPDATE: I’m on Season2 now. I’m anxious to see what this girl actually does, cuz the whole first season she’s just watching and haven’t done anything (other than mail a toothbrush and some non-incriminating photos).
UPDATE: Finished the Series. This is the most PASSIVE way ever to get “revenge” lol. So the girl doesn’t really DO stuff to others. I guess they didn’t want her being the “bad” guy. The show is all about how rotten the others all are, and the downfall of every one of them is their own doing. She doesn’t actively do stuff to others for revenge. She merely helps expose them. And most of it is the other people turning on each other.
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sometimes the villain or evil one is the more relateable, and then it just watches as a tragedy. Which is my take for at least 50% of all Criminal Minds episodes. Yes, there are some completely unlikeable jerks, and that’s fun, but there are a lot of complex villains who it’s kind of sad when they’re caught…
cause they were good at one thing, killing people but we can’t pick our gifts, and it’s the job of the show to take them from that thing they’re good at, and I can relate. Not that I’ve ever killed anyone. Just to the loving what I did, and I’d still be doing it if external circumstances hadn’t interfered.
Same for any monster of the week type show, like Scooby Doo or Father Brown. I can relate to the villain being like “Who expects a traveling band of teenagers solving mysteries? I wasn’t prepared! I would have gotten away with it….” Same goes for a mystery solving priest, that’s entirely more competent than anyone has any right to be.
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Then I get into the whole Korean drama of it all….
A. Korean dramas are weird. I watched one once that was a mini series, a romance, and the f-d part was that they were brother and sister, and it was a tragedy, the nickname it got was “Korean Drama So Sad.” And I’m going to spoil the ending because it was ten years ago and I still don’t know how to feel about it. The male lead dies, but he gives his heart to the woman he loved, his literal heart so he’ll “always be a part of her.”
WTF
B. Korea is seriously weird too. They aren’t normal capitalists, they’re some weird mix of Japan, Singapore and the United States. Apparently they’re very conservative, my favorite thing I’ve found that’s Korean is this song called “Unbelieveable”… I thought about trying to describe it, but you just need to see it.
https://dai.ly/x2n24cg
so basically they’re so sexually repressed, this is the height of romance… “Come be my coffee table, and I’ll be your sofa.” My wife asked me how that works, I told her I didn’t know…. my reaction to the whole thing is to be so stunned like vegetable.
-how are koreans/korean dramas “weird”?
-i’ve been watching some k-dramas lately and i don’t see them as “weird”? or…maybe the correct question is- what is it that YOU have been watching that’s weird? lol 😛 😉
-isn’t it like the same as someone from another country watching some/certain american films and thinking they’re “weird”? there’s certainly some strange ones we have. actually, we have LOTS of “strange” ones…it all depends on what we’re watching, no?
-and what does their version of “capitalism” have to do with k dramas? idk what their “capitalism” is but maybe it’s better than ours? all i know for 100% fact is that American Capitalism sure af ain’t working for us.
-I think you’re probably correct, I’m selecting for weird, and on the whole perhaps Korean dramas are no more odd than any other culture.
-economy effects everything, and is effected by everything. I’ve been on a deep dive into many of the surrounding economies such as North Korea, China, and Philipines and there ended up being way more autocratic command economy elements even in the so called “democratic” states
so how is S. Korea specifically weird? Companies are nearly all powerful, people have very few rights. Again I need to dig deeper, because there doesn’t seem to be the corruption in Korea that the US has, so perhaps these “companies” are more like public entities than investment instruments.
I’ve found you can’t assume a single thing about another economy, just because it’s labeled a certain way doesn’t mean that’s how it works under the hood. Oh, the other cool but also weird thing is that education is nearly entirely privatized, and that is a problem apparently. The Korean system is way less regulated, and there’s a serious problem regarding public health, tutoring and exam prep. Turns out kids need exercise, and time outside, and the market is really bad at achieving that.
I’ve been on an obsessive spiral about trying to figure out why people move to the United States, and as such am prone to blather on about random social influences. It isn’t better in the United States, it’s just different, and those differences are rarely obvious.
lol, now i’m curious as to what kind of weird stuff you’re selecting for…but then again, do i want to know?? lol
check out The Human Centipede. If someone from another country watched that, they’d think Americans were sick af. Well…whether we are or not is debatable…It’s hard to judge a country by a few select movies.
So…companies in Korea tend to be more powerful yet have less corruption? Yeah, sounds about right. We’re looking at it through an American lens- like how can that be possible bc here in America, the more powerful a company the more corrupt it is. But it makes sense. Hard to explain but you’d have to look at it from an Asian culture perspective.
Oh who would’ve thought privatizing education would lead to mass corruption? *sarcasm* Here in the US, all these private firms are trying to privatize everything here so THEY can funnel government funds to themselves and enrich themselves. The money does not go to the actual schools or students so it’s one giant scam. And the American taxpayers are the suckers getting bled dry.
“I’ve found you can’t assume a single thing about another economy, just because it’s labeled a certain way doesn’t mean that’s how it works under the hood.”
–>That’s bc we’ve been brainwashed my dear. In the US, we have been taught that capitalism is not only great, but the ONLY fair and democratic economic system. And that “socialism” is this great evil. Guess who spreads this propaganda?
“I’ve been on an obsessive spiral about trying to figure out why people move to the United States”
–>Bc we destabilize and topple govts across the globe. They can choose to stay in their ruined country or they can come here O_o
–>People from the better countries come to the US to visit/go to expensive uni’s, but they don’t stay.
“Turns out kids need exercise, and time outside, and the market is really bad at achieving that.”
–>bc there is no money in exercise and time outside. they can’t monetize going for a walk, so they don’t. just look at what happened here in the US during Covid.
We were banned from being outdoors, and turns out being outdoors gave us the best immunity. Almost like they wanted us to get sick and profit off of us. And make BILLIONS off of the jab. But nah. Our govt wouldn’t collude with mega corporations just to bilk the American populace of billions of dollars. Naw.