asian films and series

THEM. Just them. I'll be here for a while.

镇魂 guardian | he’s yours smh

BEYOND EVIL (2021), dir. Shim Nayeon

moonjo 🦷

I love how almost every time things get heated between the two of them, it's an external factor (usually their phones) that forces them to separate. It's as if once they're in each other's breathing space they fall under a spell, the tension between them so thick they're unable to cut it themselves; and so it's something outside of them that has to act as the knife.

bro is WHIPPED

I'll set up a trap. I'll be the bait. I'll be a monster, take Han Ki-hwan with me, and dive into hell...That's my way of atoning. That's how he wants to atone for what happened...I can't let that fool go down alone.

As they say, context is everything XD Without it, their body language at the very beginning of the scene, followed almost immediately by that not even 20 seconds long "cute" exchange would suggest that not only were they having a completely different conversation - they were in an entirely different genre.

The way this is filmed and edited, from the closeups to the music cutting off at the switch to the wider shot, to the light glow disappearing from Lee Dongsik's face as they just keep looking at each other with this sort of numb finality... like they're both going through a litany of pleas towards each other without saying a word but you can hear them as if they were shouting.

One of the many brilliant things about this show is how, by following Han Joowon more often than not, it makes us develop the same tunnel vision he has; how it makes us follow Han Joowon in always, always, looking towards Lee Dongsik first.

Yeo Jingoo as Han Juwon BEYOND EVIL (2021), dir. Shim Nayeon

hes just like me

Lee Dongsik x Han Joowon / Kang Yohan x Kim Gaon

LEE DONG-WOOK as SEO MOON-JO Hell Is Other People (2019) 1.10

not literally, this IS the plot of sfh

“Who taught you to smile like that?” Sweet Home: Season 3 (2024), dir. Lee Eung Bok