Like the best of television, all I have after finishing it are feelings rather than thoughts.
Those feelings are deep and overwhelming and maybe one day I'll come back here and fill in this review properly with coherence. For now I'll just say - this is a dark and disturbing but powerful and compelling piece of television that you should absolutely watch. It's extraordinarily well crafted: the script, production and acting working together to create a grim tapestry that examines the hierarchical bullying and endemic violence of Korean society and how it has been given brutal form in its nation's military.
As young men are fed into the machine like grist to an unnecessarily violent mill, they do their best to survive in whatever way they can. Whether perpetrators, victims, or bystanders, no one is innocent and no one comes through unscathed.
D.P. is an unflinching look at the perpetuation and normalisation of violence and about what happens when people think they have no way out.
Those feelings are deep and overwhelming and maybe one day I'll come back here and fill in this review properly with coherence. For now I'll just say - this is a dark and disturbing but powerful and compelling piece of television that you should absolutely watch. It's extraordinarily well crafted: the script, production and acting working together to create a grim tapestry that examines the hierarchical bullying and endemic violence of Korean society and how it has been given brutal form in its nation's military.
As young men are fed into the machine like grist to an unnecessarily violent mill, they do their best to survive in whatever way they can. Whether perpetrators, victims, or bystanders, no one is innocent and no one comes through unscathed.
D.P. is an unflinching look at the perpetuation and normalisation of violence and about what happens when people think they have no way out.
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