Cruel Story of Youth

Okay and I actually watched this one first, but whatever. It was… better than Empire of Passion, but even though I watched it with subtitles, I still felt like some of it was really confusing to me, ahah. Like the beginning where they are showing shots of a Korean protest– I wasn’t entirely sure if the movie was implying they were actually Korean or not. (Which, no, it isn’t.) This is possibly just me not paying enough attention, still, as I was kind of doing other things, too.

Anyway, the main relationship is still creepy and abusive (like literally, again, their first sexual encounter is pretty much rape), and then I didn’t wholly understand what was going on with her sister. But I at least found the story interesting to watch, and their character development was also kind of fascinating, since … it actually exists? I’m not sure I’d watch this one again, but at least I didn’t feel like I wasted my time watching it.

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