Mad Honey

“must everything be homoerotic” no. but many things are, you will find

2021's Beyond Evil (괴물) is truly a show of all time. It's about both the necessity and the limitations of law, and what happens when people are inevitably forced to make their own justice. It's about hypocrisy and the terrible things we do for love, including love of self. It's about neurodivergence, ableism, PTSD, and how we both see and unsee those things; how we infantilize some disabilities while dismissing others; how readily we read guilt into behaviours that stem from trauma. It's about how grief can tear a hole twenty years deep and seven families wide through a community, and the impossibility of ever stitching such a wound closed. It's about assumptions, subversion, consequences: how thinking you're right is not the same as being right. It's about the violence of misogyny, the pressure of conformity, and the question of whose voice deserves to be heard. It's about what it costs to know the truth. But most of all, it's about Han Juwon wanting to fuck that old man so bad it makes him look stupid. And I think that's beautiful.

WHAT IF I killed you but kept all of your gifts, kept driving the car you bought me, took over your business, your office, your house, slept in your bed, but at the end of the day the only things that still made me feel something were the ghost and memories of you... would you like that?