Mabkid
Joined Jan 2004
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1st, this is NOT season 2 of Squid Games. This is a reality show for average people who want to win 4.5 million dollars in a Squid Game-type setting, so basically a reality show for Squid Game fans.
2nd, this is as exciting as Devil's Plan, another Korean game show, in that the toying with contestants is more skillful and deliberate than American shows, that rely more on outrageous personalities of contestants rather than the game design itself.
It's good, especially if you are a Squid Games fan. You'll enjoy seeing real people put through Squid Games, kinda like what Mr Beast did but with his own posse.
Enjoy, and don't be that person who watches 10min and writes a misunderstood review.
2nd, this is as exciting as Devil's Plan, another Korean game show, in that the toying with contestants is more skillful and deliberate than American shows, that rely more on outrageous personalities of contestants rather than the game design itself.
It's good, especially if you are a Squid Games fan. You'll enjoy seeing real people put through Squid Games, kinda like what Mr Beast did but with his own posse.
Enjoy, and don't be that person who watches 10min and writes a misunderstood review.
Wow, this show is layered and complex... which is the main reason why I am convinced that anime from America is gaining an elevated level.
Blue-Eyed Samurai starts as a revenge story. A bastard girl fathered by a non-Japanese sets off on a journey to kill her absentee father for dooming her mother and her life into one of discrimination and alienation. You see, this was the feudal Japan that had adopted the policy of SAKKOKU, or complete closure to the international community. Foreigners were banned, and dubbed every name in the book that prejudices could conjure.
Beyond the journey, we quickly see multi-levels to the story. There is honor in friendships, between master and apprentice, and in being a samurai. And in the backdrop, there is a larger plot to change the entire landscape of an empire.
The characters themselves are complex. Mizu, the protagonist bent on revenge discovers a lot worth living for while on her death wish journey. Her persistent apprentice is comical, and more useful than meets the eye. A childhood bully grows to be quite an honorable samurai, and more. A spoilt princess learns and takes control of the cruel realities of the world. And its dialogue is honest and bold. If there is any criticism, I might comment in the pacing of the action scenes as a little too long-drawn out.
Blue-Eyed Samurai is an easy binge because it's beautiful, it's gritty, it's witty, it's honorable, and it is a good story. Very good effort!
Blue-Eyed Samurai starts as a revenge story. A bastard girl fathered by a non-Japanese sets off on a journey to kill her absentee father for dooming her mother and her life into one of discrimination and alienation. You see, this was the feudal Japan that had adopted the policy of SAKKOKU, or complete closure to the international community. Foreigners were banned, and dubbed every name in the book that prejudices could conjure.
Beyond the journey, we quickly see multi-levels to the story. There is honor in friendships, between master and apprentice, and in being a samurai. And in the backdrop, there is a larger plot to change the entire landscape of an empire.
The characters themselves are complex. Mizu, the protagonist bent on revenge discovers a lot worth living for while on her death wish journey. Her persistent apprentice is comical, and more useful than meets the eye. A childhood bully grows to be quite an honorable samurai, and more. A spoilt princess learns and takes control of the cruel realities of the world. And its dialogue is honest and bold. If there is any criticism, I might comment in the pacing of the action scenes as a little too long-drawn out.
Blue-Eyed Samurai is an easy binge because it's beautiful, it's gritty, it's witty, it's honorable, and it is a good story. Very good effort!
Blue Bayou is about an adopted Korean American who finds out as an adult that his botched adoption process leaves him an illegal alien. His entire life is uprooted, as he deals with his desperate situation.
Justin Chon and Alicia Vikander deliver some masterful, heartbreaking performances. It's moody. It's Louisiana bluesy. It's a curtain of dainty Spanish moss over the bayou. It's beautiful cinematically. It's slow burn like slow whiskey sipping. It's multilayered, and yet, much unspoken. It's love, in the face of poverty, a broken immigration system, and desperation.
Adoptees subjected to this fate need their story told. Illegal or not, forced family separation is a tragedy.
Justin Chon and Alicia Vikander deliver some masterful, heartbreaking performances. It's moody. It's Louisiana bluesy. It's a curtain of dainty Spanish moss over the bayou. It's beautiful cinematically. It's slow burn like slow whiskey sipping. It's multilayered, and yet, much unspoken. It's love, in the face of poverty, a broken immigration system, and desperation.
Adoptees subjected to this fate need their story told. Illegal or not, forced family separation is a tragedy.
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