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mb: Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok & Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil

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Sylvia Plath, from “Letters Home”

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괴물 | Beyond Evil (2021)

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All right. Sit back and watch me play in your game of justice. Shin Ha-kyun as Lee Dong-sik BEYOND EVIL (2021)

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Without you, I’m so lonely on this road. So lonely. Please don’t cry. Please don’t cry tonight.

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Making this so you watch my comfort drama!!! It’s on Netflix already 🤩🤩🤩

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“oh yeah, he’s my comfort character!” 

the comfort character:

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10 Common Tropes in Korean Crime Thrillers - An Illustration Post with Beyond Evil

A collation by my-otp-list, a K-Thriller enthusiast since 2010 who recently falls into the hell hole of BE and fails to crawl back up…

10. "If there's a reed field, there's a body in it."

9. "The killer always comes back. Preferably 20 years later."

8. "For some oddest reasons, the search party is perpetually carried out at night."

7. "Everyone is a suspect."

6. "Someone always has that convenient dashcam footage."

5. "Collateral damage is inevitable."

4. “There's no way the higher-ups are innocent.”

3. “Male Lead - way too many Tragic Backstories™.”

2. “Partners, at the beginning of the show: "I absolutely cannot stand that guy."”

and finally,

1. “Also partners, by the end of the show: "Hurt that guy and I'll make sure you regret it."”

(Occasionally, this trope is also known as “So you’re telling me this show is not a romance?”)

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Jae-yi, aren’t you scared of me? You’re just crazy, that’s all. The sorrow you held all to yourself brimmed over at some point, so you just began to go around doing crazy stuff. Right? I’ll help you. You’re trying to find your sister yourself. I want to find my mom myself, too.

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SHIN HA KYUN AS:

Lee Dong-sik in Beyond Evil (2021) dir. Shim Na-yeon Lee Moo-bae in Extreme Job (2019) dir. Lee Byeong-heon  Kang-woo in Thirst (2009) dir. Park Chan-wook Ryu in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) dir. Park Chan-wook Sung-hyun in My Brother (2004) dir. Ahn Kwon-Tae  Kim Min-jae in Empire of Lust (2015) dir. Ahn Sang-hoon Se-ha in Inseparable Bros (2019) dir. Yuk Sang-Hyo  Pyo Hyun-chul in Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005) dir. Park Kwang-hyun Boong-sang in The Villainess (2017) dir. Jung Byung-gil

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contains spoilers!

there are a lot of scenes in beyond evil that, upon watching the second time, give a whole different meaning than the first time and i’ve always been meaning to write about it. an example is the dinner scene in episode 2, where we see dong-sik palpably in distress yet we’re utterly in the dark as of why he’s that way. when the scene of him placing the fingers later then show up, we start thinking, what’s with the fingers? did he really kill her? was that why he seemed so distraught during the dinner? but after finishing the show, rewatching that scene would simply make you go, oh, he found the fingers. so that’s why he seemed that way. 

that oh. that realisation of what the scene actually meant. how the layered dialogues and thick masks that the characters put on in that scene just simply stripped away when you watch it again and all you see is the rawness, the reality, the whys, all the dead ends now tied together into a pretty knot. whatever you had originally interpreted from the scene the first time is now debunked by the proper truth. the reason why i love these type of scenes is because it’s not exactly easy to perfect both writing and acting wise. i love them for the double meaning behind the dialogues, the way you think you’ve understood when, really, you haven’t. 

but the scene example that i do want to bring up besides the ep2 dinner scene is the one where jinmook was on stage in ep5. when dongsik stormed in, you, as a first time viewer, would automatically justify his anger for him wanting to protect jinmook from being taken advantage of by do haewon and lee changjin for the redevelopment plans. you watch him fume, riled up, you watch him shout at jinmook to get off stage. but as a second time viewer, you realise his anger was not directed at the residents for taking advantage of jinmook, but rather his anger was directed at jinmook for taking advantage of the residents and their “pity” towards him. you realise he’s angry because jinmook is using his daughter, the very daughter that he himself murdered, to gain pity from the residents, and he’s so so angry that he asks him why. what are you doing. 

in this part

at first we think; dongsik is baffled by jinmook’s oblivion to being taken advantage of. dongsik is basically asking “you’re asking me what’s wrong? you’re the one letting these people use you and minjeong and you’re asking me what’s wrong?” 

but a 2nd watch you’d interpret this as; dongsik is baffled by jinmook’s audacity to ask him what’s wrong when he was the one who started everything - the murders, his sister, minjeong. dongsik is basically asking “how can you ask me what’s wrong? how dare you ask me what’s wrong when you know full well what you’ve done?” 

and the rest of the dialogues in this part basically has the same gist; that doubled meaning. dongsik asking jinmook “what are you doing” and that rage in his eyes when jinmook said he caused a nuisance because of minjeong.

at first we think dongsik is angry at how jinmook is letting these people make him feel guilty over minjeong and using that rootless guilt for their own gains.

then we realise it’s really dongsik is angry at how jinmook is basically admitting to being the cause behind all this mess, and he’s angry because he can’t even do anything about it, he’s angry because jinmook has the nerve to even utter minjeong’s name after what he’d done to her. 

i won’t ramble any further because analysing a scene is always fun when you’ve done it yourself and i don’t want to hand everything on a silver platter. but i just want to appreciate the efforts that have gone into writing the dialogues and acting it out, how they’ve completely fooled us the first time. the hidden meanings behind dongsik’s rage, his questions, how he aggressively pulled jinmook away and how we should’ve realised that that aggression seemed out of place because we understand that dongsik considered jinmook as family and he wouldn’t just... be rough with someone he cares about. so we should’ve noticed how something was terribly wrong with dongsik and jinmook. yet we simply didn’t until we finished the first half of the show.

another scene was also when jinmook visited dongsik during his arrest. that exchange of dialogues 

“don’t you know why im here?” 

“i do”

“then why are you doing this [bringing him food]”

“i know you. it wasnt you. never.”

“how can you be so sure?”

“dongsik. it wasnt you. i know.”

where at first we think dongsik is just bewildered by jinmook’s visit when he might be the killer, but then we realise dongsik’s “how can you be so sure” is him going “so you’re saying you know i am not the killer because it’s you.” 

won’t say alot anymore but big kudos to kim soojin’s writing and shin hakyun’s acting for pulling off such incredible scenes <3 i honestly could go on talking abt these kinds of scenes and how beyond evil served so much of it.

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the beach - the neighbourhood

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mẹ luôn bắt đầu câu chuyện bằng câu hỏi "ăn cơm chưa?" - đó là câu hỏi duy nhất mà tôi yêu thương mong muốn nghe nó mỗi ngày.

hay mẹ cũng luôn kết thúc câu chuyện bằng lời "luôn muốn con vui vẻ!".

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# lại chuyện gia đình cùng với chuyện thất tình.

tôi vẫn nhớ người ta. càng đụng chuyện gia đình tôi lại càng nhớ người ta.

tủi thân, cần tình thương đến thế đâu phải là tôi? tôi muốn khóc, xoay qua xoay lại giữa đống bài vở, tasks, chuyện tự học vẫn chưa đủ. còn, lại chuyện gia đình và chuyện thất tình.

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