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What thing?

No, it's as clear as day. Every human I know has at least this much to deal with in life, most deal with much worse.

Don't forget that Im Yoon-a has no charisma and limited skills. She's the reason I dropped K2, had no idea who she was, just knew she was ruining the show. She's improved but she'll never be great, she's far too self aware and reserved, she's not cut out for acting.

We're all done with AI. Man, it's a bore.

I've been proved right about Confidence Queen, not that I care.

Because it wasn't. She's a high maintenance drama queen. The film was disingenuous, no inner DID personalities are other existing people - she's doing an impression of someone she knows. I feel sorry for the husband.

You're right 👍

I liked it, it was exciting and quite original the way it panned out - and also some of the characters. One loose end, not sure if deliberate or the budget ran out. Anyway, good movie, good entertainment.

Probably 11, next week will be the end

It's extremely hot and humid in Asia at this time of year, right? No air con should have immediately triggered the cancellation of the event. If would be unbearable.

This guy's a great actor, he gets better and better, he adapts effortlessly to different characters from one extreme to another and he's convincing. Take Queen Woo for example, impressive work.

Yes, sorry, I edited my previous reply - I misread "therapist" as "the rapist"

There was no rapist in the movie was there, what did I miss?

Sorry - I'm so used to reading modern slack typing I misread "therapist".

I see what you mean, I thought it would be something along the lines of divorce - this type of woman is high maintenance, pretending to have DID puts a lot of strain on the partner, a form of selfishness. Before you ask, there's no form of DID where the personality is a known 3rd party - that's just an impersonation. Her mind was very weak. None of her issues warranted professional help or recognition, everyone faces the same or worse and deals with it. I also suspect that in reality she dropped out of her job and wasn't invited back - such personalities are high maintenance in the office too

Based on what I saw in the film, she did not have DID, she was pretending. I haven't read the book, maybe it was for dramatic reasons. Sooner or later, a fraudster like this gets found out by those closest, like the husband. It becomes a completely different type of mental illness and one that's not at all palatable to an audience - generally unlikeable.

What happens in the book?

Well, the synopsis ends with "What happened to her?" I just watched it, I still don't know.
Without leaving direct spoilers, it was mildly engaging, we can all relate to her life experiences and it's well made with good actors, but.. there's a reason this film's showing for free on every single streaming service. It's yet another self-indulgent writer's piece that doesn't bear the scrutiny of the audience. Have you ever met the type of person that says they're allergic to cucumber, where in reality they're not allergic at all, they just don't like it? It's called personal taste, it's not an allergy - they're faking it.

Korea's just like Hollywood these days, churning out slop for streaming on a second screen. We humans have lost our appetite for narrative based imagination, it's a dying art - Korea was a last hope, up until all the big American studios made their pillage.

For half an episode perhaps. It's a lazy remake. Lazy execution of a lazy remake, the sort of thing that's rife in Hollywood at the moment. This would be tantamount to Japan doing a remake of Goblin... Or to use an actual example, something with unique qualities that cannot be replicated, such as My Love From The Star - nobody in Korea was flattered by it, nobody watched either, it was the wrong vehicle for an idol drama.
As such, I expect the international audience in the west to enjoy it.

Amazon even had the nerve to show ads for this on TV in Japan. Shameless, but I can see some Japanese tuning in out of curiosity - and they'll come away from it with a feeling of superiority. Tbh, wasn't Confidence Man originally inspired by the UK series called Hustle? Even so, Japan made it their own. Let's see if South Korea will measure up.

That's what I wrote above, it just means a character in the drama uses racial slurs, it doesn't make it racist per se, it's art.

Yeah. Like I said, Korean romanisation is a mess.