I came here thinking I'd rate ten stars. Imagine how shocked I was when I was saw low the ratings were! After reading the reviews, I had to admit that this show indeed had serious flaws. I'm going to list them first, then I'm going to explain why I still loved it. Finally, I'll provide my own explaination for the plot and ending, as I couldn't find a satisfying one on the web.
Flaws.
1)Slow. Very slow. Like, French-movie like slow. So slow that sometimes, I had to check to see if my screen didn't just freeze.
2)Useless scenes and characters. The whole chamanistic part, event the shaman herself (and her lesbian love story) were useless, should I say, a nuisance. The story would have been better off without them. This is the kind of plot that benefits from keeping the number of characters to a minimum.
3)The police. What the heck were they for? Gi-eun should have been a private detective, this would have explained her stupid decision to meet a dangerous man without certain backup. Which brings me to...
4)...silly behaviour and reactions. Seom aside, most of the characters do dumb things at one point or another. Or things that don't match their background/job.
5)Things left unexplained. Or maybe I missed something. It looked like there were added scenes after every episode, but I didn't bother to watch...
Now, what I liked:
The love story, the plot, the scenery, the music, the relentless tension, the acting, the actors, the sex scenes, the gore, the leads' bodies. OMG, that man's body, anyone? And...........the slow pace. That WASN'T BORING! I'm serious here, that wasn't boring for a moment. Better yet, being so slow, it enhanced things like the way the killer moved. Whenever he moved to catch someone, he turned into a panther. He just dropped on his victim and snatched them. That left an impression. In times like that, he really didn't seem human.
Now for the explanation, go watch and then come back.
WARNING SPOILERS! WARNING SPOILERS! WARNING SPOILERS!
Why did Seom kill Youn-Ho?
I read somewhere that this story had nothing to do with Asperger, and that it was a good thing. I disagree. I think it had everything to do do with Asperger.
First, who is Somebody? Seom's body. Seom means island. She is alone in a sea of different and unfamiliar people she can't relate to. Seom's body is the part of herself she created to study people, understand them, the way they think, behave and interact. It is her connexion to society. Somebody says to her "You're the only one who loves me". So, of course, hurting the AI, was Youn-Ho's main mistake.
Gi-Eum was Seom's friend. It's not true that Asperger don't feel. They do. They just have a hard time connecting feelings with body language. Gi-Eum was dear to Seum. Somebody says "You miss her a lot".
Hurting her was another mistake.
And hurting people was the last mistake. Remember the very first scene. Seom says "I'll do anything, as long as it doesn't involve killing people"
Aspergers usually have a high sense of justice !!!
Later on, when talking to her friends, apparently protecting her boyfriend, Seom states that "everybody will pay for their crimes". And when she visits that man in prison, he says to her "Didn't you tell me that everyone has to pay for their crimes?"
But how should such a monster pay for his crimes? Seom was the only one who could punish him properly.
He loved her. That tear on his face. I can never forget that. At this moment, he knows only one of them can remain. When she says that she wants to come to the hideout, he knows what to expect. He just wants to pretend otherwise. He wants to hope, he wants to delude himself. He's willing to risk his life for a chance to be with her.
He loved her, and she used that love. We have several clues that Seom is leading Youn-Ho on.
When they last try to make love, she can't bring herself to touch him. He realises that and withdraws. Then she masturbates before him. Do you remember how that scene about how-to-fake-an-orgasm popped over and over? There. She needed to keep him hooked. He seemed to be aware of that too.
Finally, she used his self-blinding love to distract him while she approched him to kill him.
And of course, she was "Fingers". Aware of every single hideous thing he did as a killer, even bringing a kid to the dark side.
THAT was justice. Balance restored. Seom could be at peace again, go back to her "normal" life. Routine is important for an Asperger.
She loved him too, though. She did, I have no doubt. She must have been torn apart doing this. Not because she smiled in the end, she didn't suffer. Remember, issues with body language.
Unbearably sad. In one of the last scenes, we understand that Gi-Eum, after eveything, was still in love with Youn-Ho. I think I would have been too. T_T.
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