strevisa
Toronto
Another letdown
Episode 1 was OK, and from then on, it felt like meaningless junk.I appreciate the fact that the plot was based on the interactions of three FL, which makes for a very unusual and potentially creative series. However, I couldn't find almost anything interesting.
I didn't like almost everything. I didn't like the clothing. I didn't like the sets where people "lived", "worked", "walked", "ate", etc. I didn't like the imposition that titles were replaced by English names at Barro. I found a lot of events (e.g. the smashing of the car and the owner and wife showing up) only being fillers.
One thing I liked was the short violence scene in the elevator. A cad touches the derrière of the FL, who then massacres him. As the elevator stopped at a floor, the FL tells another woman who wanted to take the elevator that it was broken. The FL then proceeded to press the button for the 33rd and last floor ... I wonder whether that came from a real event.
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Vendetta, tremenda vendetta!
You m0natt0m3re@!#! killed my sister and niece, see what I do to you! ... and so started a bloody onslaught.The plot is logical, as if written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: thesis, antithesis and synthesis, which becomes the new thesis facing a new antithesis until it is resolved in a new synthesis, und so weiter.
The crescendo seems (seems, SEEMS) to be the killing of poor TaeGu, who turns out have been duped into partaking in the carnage.
Then the girl (Jeon YoBin, the FL in "Vincenzo" for those watching the series) shows up. She enters and locks the door ...
The movie's Ulyssa "... sprang on to the broad pavement ... shed the arrows on to the ground ... 'Dogs, did you think that I should not come back ... and now you shall die.'" (Please see the scene in Franco Rossi's Odyssey).
PS I wish the movie had ended just going to a black screen without hearing the shot, leaving the audience ponder whether the bullet or the cancer caused the black out.
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Rich in many ways
The series presented many cultures (Korean, Italian, biblical, Buddhist, ... ) presenting a mafia person, who somehow never forgot spoken and written Korean, and barely learned Italian, though an Italian lawyer.He is caught in a good vs. evil war, siding with the former, though unable or unwanting to shed his old self.
In the end I wondered whether I had to go through so many killings, and why the author chose not to develop some relationships among the cast. I am not only referring to the woman protecting Vincenzo from getting shot, de facto a "I love you" declaration, which went pretty much nowhere. I am talking about developing the mom-son relationship in the Plaza, do more with the pawn shop couple, get the cook out of his goofiness by learning how to cook, ...
I also disliked the plethora of revelations about the past of the Plaza folks. Too artificial.
Liked the defenestration scene at the end of ep. 19, the re-creation of Delacroix' masterpiece "La Liberté guidant le peuple", the music overall, and the fact that the author spent time to tie together everything in the end.
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