LOOKISM STUFF 2.0

("Comforting Sounds", by Mew)

Source: PTJ Comics' Instagram Story

-Atomship, "Time For People"

His official birthday is on Sep 18.

Other than for plot reasons, PTJ had James dye his hair black to match G-Dragon's current hair color. The same reason why Vin was made to grow his hair long (to match Beenzino's current hair length).

Lookism Cinematic Analysis (6)

tw: suicide

This panel is loosely based on one of the posters of a critically acclaimed Korean film, "Socialphobia" (2014).

"Socialphobia" is a story about the mysterious death of a social media user who was some sort of a keyboard warrior, and the subsequent social media frenzy that it caused.

In the film, the social media user was objectified after her death. For the other young characters, the allure of the mystery surrounding her death was more important than her humanity. At the end of the film, it's never clear whether she was murdered or it was a suicide, and nobody cared about it.

In Lookism's case, the moment Charles took his own life, all the exposé about his crimes became secondary compared to his dead body. Who he was before HNH, his personal life, etc etc at that moment disappeared. He was but the grotesque body.

Notice how in both the panel and the poster, different angles were taken by the press and the civilians when photographing the dead. This also works as a symbolism: people only knew about the dead girl and Charles the way whoever took photos of them chose to. They were both presented differently, framed differently, depending on the angle.

In a world where reality is fabricated, what is real never matters.

(Against the Current, "Weapon")

(My Chemical Romance, "The Sharpest Lives")

(My Chemical Romance, "The Sharpest Lives")

("Field of Innocence", Evanescence)

Back in 2014 when there were talks of adapting Lookism as a Korean film (which had since gone nowhere), PTJ actually wanted to cast these two actors as the original Daniel and the Second Body Daniel.

AHN JAEHONG (top picture) for the original Daniel and PARK BOGUM (bottom picture) for the second body.

This is how they looked like back then (I can see PTJ's vision):

Ahn Jaehong's latest project is the critically acclaimed limited series "Mask Girl" on Netflix, and Park Bogum is mostly known for the kdrama "Love in the Moonlight" and the film "Coin Locker Girl". They both starred in the kdrama "Reply 1988".

(Cheriimoya, Sierra Kidd - "Livin' Life in the Night")

(Cody Fry, "Eleanor Rigby" -orig. The Beatles)