lirazel: An outdoor scene from the film Picnic at Hanging Rock ([kd] the devil you know)
lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote2012-02-19 07:53 pm

so i just finished 마왕 - Mawang

And it was this incredibly well-crafted and complicated exploration of vengeance and guilt and forgiveness and manipulation and lies and deception and how the past is never dead it isn’t even the past and also about how powerful free will is but that it can be just as much of a burden as it is a gift. And the ending was just…like, I cannot form words? It had to be that way, but OMG MY HEART.

And yet.

Most of all I’m just frustrated that it couldn’t end with the three main characters figuring out how tangled up in each other their lives are and just deciding that they might as well just become the world’s most epic/complicated threesome of emotionally-unstable-detective!boy/intuitive-and-psychic-librarian!girl/emotionally-closed-off-lawyer!boy who are all bound together through an epic backstory of blood and shared history.

Which is not even a spoiler, because there was no way any drama would end that way. But that’s still what I want. I would pay someone to write me a fic where that happened. No, I would literally pay for that.

I will probably have more to say about this later because it is just that good, but for now I'm going to pout about my lack of threesome.