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the Eigth Sense Episode 1 & 2

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Ixaala

I love this series so far. It makes me nerd out so hard. I was a film student and I wrote one of my finals essays on European New Wave techniques in New Hollywood (films like The Graduate) and this series is the first time I've seen new wave in korean filmmaking. I love it so much, it carries heavy european queer cinema vibes. European New Wave is all about grounding realism, like the extremist forms the films make no narrative sense, they're just moments of life captured, it foregrounds the artifice of the camera so you get the background noise or obvious sudden cuts. This series uses those techniques in a really clever way. Like, Korean filmmaking I do love, it's often very beautiful and emotional, but like classic Hollywood used to be it's very much orientated around immersion and the pleasure of the story, everyone is beautiful, the cinematography is like the best art, the story pulls you in so deeply it's almost a fairytale like quality. To use New Wave techniques in a Korean queer drama says to me this drama isn't for the fangirl audience, it's proper queer cinema. From the start it's a little disconcerting, it dumps you into the story there's no obvious 'main character' shot, we're introduced to random rambling conversations, dimmer light, the sound foregrounds the wider world versus our main characters. Even little stuff like there is no make up and the men have body hair visible (which can be taboo in Korea sometimes from what I've heard). And then the story-It's the looks and the tension, it's not trope dependant it's characters feeling each other out. This show relies to much on looks and gaze rather than dialogue to tell the story. I could literally write essays. If I was still in academia I would be jumping on this. I'm really excited to see where this series goes because I've tended to really love Korean bls as a whole, the filmmaking tends to be approached in a smart way, but this feels like the first time I've seen real modern queer cinema vibes from Korea. I dare say there are many I haven't seen, but a 40ish min per ep series on viki for international consumption- it makes me excited about where this could lead and whether we might get the two powerhouses of European realism and Korean filmmaking to merge and create something new like New Hollywood did in the 70s and 80s, where stories get much more about real life and politically themed. This was a really long comment, like I said I nerd out. But I'm just excited to see what feels like it could be an authentic queer voice coming out of Korea. (Totally said from a european pov any korean film experts sorry if this is completely reductive or ill-informed.) I hope you're gonna love this too, I suspect you might, but I'll enjoy watching it with you anyway.

FroggyMuds

I hope you come back to this series at some point! It gets incredibly emotional and beautiful as you go on, and I would really love to see what you think about it from a mental health perspective

psynergic

I watched it, I'm actually going through my streams to see where it is so I can put them up here 😊