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Well, I know what you're saying and you are deeply mistaken.

"snowflake" is a big tell here. I'm smelling a right-winger. You're a stupid person, ie. "stupid" in the original meaning of the word, as "to be in a stupor." Generally uninformed and willfully ignorant.

But I'm sure you're more of an authority on addiction than the American Medical Association:
https://drugfree.org/article/is-addiction-a-disease/

Is it that you regard addiction as some sort of bad moral choice so you can look down on addicts and thus feel better about yourself up there on that self-righteous high horse?

Are you American? Korean? European?

Does "Korea care" about speeding and running red lights? If so, why do entertainers who speed or run red lights not have their careers destroyed?

Simply put, it's because the Korean press and the bloodthirsty Netizens see smoking fucking weed as a deep, MORAL failing, not just breaking the law, which is all it is. The response is WAY out of proportion to the ALLEGED crime.

And let's not pretend that the SK police, judicial branch, politicians, and the prison system don't all stand to gain great PR and get themselves in the news by harassing this excellent actor for smoking a joint. So many millions of $$$ wasted prosecuting petty crimes like pot-smoking, when that money and time should be going toward dealing with much worse problems.

Nonsensical bullshit. You haven't mentioned this "rehab centre production line" in any of your posts above. You're floundering and grasping for straws now, since your self-righteous, ignorant pose is being shown for what it is.

There have been addicts on this earth as long as there have been humans. The psychotropic effects of many plants were discovered and used many thousands of years ago. Your "rehab centres production line" BS is akin to saying hospitals rely on people with cancer and heart disease to keep their profit margins up. That's what hospitals and rehabs DO; they treat the sick. Addicts are sick. Very sick. It's just that you haven't caught up and are viewing the illness as a moral failing, rather than a mental/emotional/physical disease. You're stuck in the 1950s. Do try to keep up.

hmmm...stupidity always winds me up a bit, especially coming from self-righteous dolts such as you who write like drug-addled Hippies even though they claim not to be one.

I could use a laugh though: Please share in what way I, or this actor, are "selfish arseholes," when your reply makes clear you're the asshole here.

Incidentally, I haven't had a drink or any kind of a drug in over 23 years. What are YOU high on?

I'd like you to prove that. You're disgusting.

" There are some stats from YouTubers on it, I can't be bothered to find them." Typical of your type. We're talking about MARIJUANA, ffs! I don't care if he was using heroin, that should land him in rehab and long-term treatment, not prison. SK is insane on the drug thing.

Do we need a generation of old farts to die off so this obsession with marijuana as some great destroyer of society can finally die too?

BRAVO! And think of all the policing time and money wasted on pursuing, prosecuting and jailing people for fucking smoking marijuana. It is beyond absurd.

I don't have to "respect" stupid, backward, draconian laws, whether they're in the U.S or SK. Marijuana is a nothing-burger. If SK beheaded K-Pop stars for being gay, would you "respect" that because it's their law? Jesus.

Pretty damn good.
Could have been a lot better with some of the cheese cut out. For example, the very last scene.

Why do people in movies being chased by an automobile while on foot run in the middle of the road?
Also, Korea has long had national health insurance, yet every other Korean movie/drama features someone desperate to pay for hospital bills.

Very impressed with Kang Ha Neul's acting. Entirely convincing at both ages.
Kim Mu Yeol was damn good too. Hottest I've ever seen him in that black suit near the end.

8/10

Self-indulgent. Profoundly dull. What a waste of Hyun Bin.

I can totally get into a slow-paced, but gripping story where something interesting is going on beneath the surface. This isn't that story.

Out after 25 minutes of watching the husband wrap and then unwrap teacups as though he were assembling and disassembling a Swiss watch. Spare me the tedium.

Oh, and it's raining. That means what's going down in sad and portentous.

Dropped like the bomb it is.

1/10 and the 1 is for Hyun Bin's face.

I am not at all surprised you think my tastes are "weird." Considering that opinion comes from someone who thinks this show and its cast are "very good," I'll consider it a compliment. Like many other MDLers, you like things safe, pedestrian, and unchallenging.

You have every right to your tastes, but I don't have to respect them.

We start at a 10/10 rating, just on the basis of Byron Pang's physical beauty and all the time we're given to luxuriate in it throughout this film. Tom Price is a beautiful man as well, with a great butt, so I'll bump our starting point to 12/10.

Now I begin to take off points for spotty acting from the leads, Scud's sometimes good but sometimes atrocious direction, occasionally horrendous acting from supporting characters, absurd and nonsensical plot twists and turns, wildly uneven attempts to be artsy/fartsy, laughably fake sex scenes, cheesy special effects, etc. and we land at 5/10.

Oh...but I have to take off an entire point for the ridiculously goofy-looking, facial peach fuzz "mustache" and chin thing Kafka sprouts off and on, so now I'm at 4/10.

But then I think of Byron Pang's body again, along with the fact I really don't want to give this thing an "F," so I'll bump it back up to 6/10 for a solid "D" grade.

Wonder why Pang's career went nowhere after the few things he did with Scud. There were moments in this film where his acting was quite good.

The synopsis, reviews and other commenters keep telling me Kafka is "straight" in this film. No. No, he isn't. Straight guys don't stare at handsome men, and then stare, and then stare some more, and then flirt like crazy when they chance upon one another later, as Kafka does when he first sees Daniel and then runs into him at the temple. At the least, he is predominantly straight but somewhat bisexual; Daniel being the first man who has strummed the one gay string on his otherwise straight guitar.

Well, apparently your standards are low, but you have every right to hold them there.

On the list of Top 20 Best BL Bodies, Parker Mao occupies spots 1 through 10. WOW. I had to put my eyeballs back in my head.

Hsiao Hung (Fandy Fan Jr.), who also likely has a rockin' bod, is however, also a natural, comedic actor. Those faces he made at the secretaries in the back of the bus when The General Manager was cornering him, and while he was trying not to ogle The General Manager at the pool, were hysterically funny.

This show is a great combo of fluffy (which I normally retch at), sexy, and funny. It's light as a feather, but at its core are two good actors who have good chemistry and are easy on the eyes.

Not really sure what you're babbling about. Apparently, you like this...thing, and I think it's crap. As people here always say, "we can have different opinions."

Lame acting, neither lead has substantial charisma, the characters' behaviors are all over the place and wildly inconsistent from scene to scene, which is the fault of the writers; the direction the actors so desperately need is either not there or just bad so the actors are left floundering, etc.

No 25 year-old woman knows the thoughts and ways of gay or bi, closeted and struggling high school boys. It's absurd. So what we're getting here is a 25 year-old woman's fluffy fantasy of what such people are like. Which is sad, because I thought the Thais had the fluff market cornered, but I guess not.

I'm always an outlier on MDL. That's the status of everyone here who has good taste and high standards for acting, direction, writing, etc. Plus, MDL is dominated by Western fluff-lovers and prudes. So this show is right up their alley.

Hye Won: Most god-awful, unsympathetic, irredeemable main character in the history of Korean cinema. She is a cold-ass b***h and the film never explains in the slightest why she is the way she is from the opening scene.

I have to laugh at those below who somehow see this as a feminist movie, critiquing the horrible way women are treated by Korean society. The women in this flick are too busy shitting on each other to have time to be shit on by the men. Hell, the old broad with the butch haircut runs the island, not some dude.

Lame.

6/10

Wow, Chang Chen and Janine Chang are stunning in this film.
I felt her character's love and concern for her husband before she spoke a word.
Plot felt a little all over the place at times, but well-worth hanging in there.

8.5/10

Terrible show.
Naturally, the MDL rating is high. lol

Dropped.