wordweaverlh

I loved D.O. as Roh Gi-soo, and generally the main characters were well acted, danced with pizzazz, and had enough character development for me to care about them. Their situations were difficult and compelling, and I wanted to see what would happen to them. Parts of the movie were really enjoyable, and while American characters were pretty universally caricatured as oblivious, stupid, and/or unbendingly prejudiced, particularly the white ones, that didn't initially stop me from liking the story. Because really elements of storytelling are where I think this fell short. A good story arc gives clues along the way that even if you can't predict exactly how it will end, you can see them in retrospect, so it's ultimately a satisfying ending (even if it's not a happy one). This one didn't do that. There were a couple of clever plot twists, but I feel like it started out as one movie and finished as a completely different one. I can't go in-depth without giving spoilers. It also had a lot more pervasive profanity and violence than I'd have expected in a TV-14 movie, and I'm really not sure they dropped the F-bomb quite *that* regularly in the 1950s, so is it even historically accurate?