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Beasts Clawing at Straws korean drama review
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Beasts Clawing at Straws
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by My Liberation Notes
Aug 15, 2021
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 8.5

They say the Love of Money is the Root of all of Evil

An arch, multi-strand, multi-character three-ring circus movie revolving around a Louis Vuitton overnight bag full of cash that long-suffering sauna worker Joong-man (Bae Sung Woo finds in an abandoned locker at work. While Joong-man sees in the bag a chance to escape his drudgery-filled life, dealing with his overbearing mother and pissed-off wife, other sets of characters are no less invested in acquiring this untraceable fortune.

Everyone from sleazy customs official Tae Young (Jung Woo-Sung), who is on the hook to gangsters for a debt incurred by his missing wife to Yun Hee (Shin Hyun-bin), an escort who is fed-up-and-ready to take revenge on her husband who beats her regularly by trying to pull off a con job on a well-off besotted client of hers. And then there’s the Yun Hee’s imperious boss (Jeon Do Yeon), a goddess in lipstick who knows what it’s like to be hurt by men.

Some of the plot’s maneuvers are quite intricate and interestingly portrayed in chapters akin to one reading a book, with each chapter cleverly tying into the book's main premise, so to speak. At times the story is hard to follow, but that doesn’t in any way take away from the performances, which are all perfectly pitched, from the leads right down to the comic-relief minor characters, such as Park Ji-Hwan’s lowlife sidekick and Youn Yuh-Jung as Joon Man’s overbearing mother. The intense color palette blends neon signs and green-lit interiors with the vast amounts of scarlet blood that flows due to the frequent violence. There is no denying there is much violence but isn’t that expected when money is involved in the mix.
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