Extraños del infierno (2019)

Necesitaba más capítulos.

"Extraños del infierno" cuenta la historia de un escritor de novelas policiales que se muda a un edificio muy desagradable en Seúl, lugar en el que le toca convivir con vecinos muuuy extraños. Él, que no tiene el dinero para irse a vivir a un lugar mejor, comienza poco a poco a descubrir los secretos que esconden estas personas tan peculiares.

Voy a empezar por las cosas que sí me gustaron:

1) ¡La ambientación está buenísima! Los distintos escenarios en los que transcurre la historia acompañan muy, muy bien la esencia de la misma.
2) Los actores trabajan increíblemente bien. Lee Dong Wook es fantástico, Pak Jong Hwan se roba todas las escenas en las que está y Lee Joong Ok no podría ponerme más nerviosa ni aunque quisiera.
3) Es súper oscura y entretenida desde el principio, no me aburrió en ningún momento.
4) El final me dejó bastante conforme, me gustó que dejaran algunas cosas a la interpretación (aunque sé que no todos piensan así y por eso me pareció buena idea mencionarlo).

Ahora bien, no todo me encantó, hubo varias cositas que para mí no terminaron de funcionar bien, sobre todo en lo que respecta a la cantidad de capítulos y el manejo de la información. La serie solo tiene 10 episodios y en este caso los 16 hubieran venido como anillo al dedo, ya que siento que los personajes (sobre todo los vecinos) terminan quedando medio "planos". Me hubiera gustado saber más sobre ellos, que tuvieran un contexto más definido.

Otro punto "negativo" que se me ocurre es que en ningún momento logró ponerme tensa de verdad y puede que esto fuera justamente por la falta de información que mencioné anteriormente (el hecho de que "Save Me" sea del mismo guionista y tenga un estilo muuuy similar le juega en contra, ya que esa serie es experta en ponerte de los nervios, y eso que en ningún momento se va para el lado del "terror").

En fin, un dorama interesante que podría haber sido muchísimo mejor de haber tenido más capítulos y villanos más "profundos".
Eso sí, a pesar de lo negativo, la recomiendo mucho.

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Unpredictable and totally unexpected.

It has proved my expectation completely wrong. Apparently many viewers would guess everything wrong from the very beginning and could base their judgement on mere heinous homicides committed by some callous serial murderers; however, it is beyond some grotesque serial murder cases.

The psychological aspect of the drama would hit anyone harder though there will be many questions which would be left unanswered as there are considerable number of loopholes in the story. Chill ran down my spine when the last scene was shown. Many things became clear like crystal.

This drama to my view is loosely based on the insecurity or complexities of a human mind depicted on the novel, The Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka. After I studied a little about the pshycoanalysis of it many things got even clearer.

Firstly, a human behavior is largely dependent on their surroundings. Everyone has both sides - good and evil. Depending on the situation and the outside elements of the surrounding environment where a person constantly comes in contact, provokes him/her to act in a certain way which might lead to cognitive dissonance if being exposed to too much negativity for a longer time. In many cases they fail to understand why they are acting in a certain way they are acting or it ignites certain personalities in a human which was always hidden or his/her consciousness doesn’t allow them to express or reveal it. They cannot keep it hidden when faced with certain circumstances.

Secondly, different neurotic aspects such as anxiety, paranoia, schizophrenia which all sprouted from poverty, low income, low social status, unemployment and dissatisfactory life would also result a person become gradually hysteric or cynical. They would create a nuisance with simple issue which in the first place was never a grave issue to begin with. We all go through many phases in life where we think diabolically and imagine some gruesome thing to happen to the thing or person we abominate the most. Nevertheless we refrain from conducting such behavior due to our conscience. But what if we lose our self control or conscientiousness? Are we going to change into a devil then? “Strangers from Hell” is the literal portrayal of our intense inner negative thoughts.

The story might be unrealistic yet the caliginous psychological aspect is the reality within us which mostly goes unspoken. Human beings are the scariest – that was the main theme. Our mind always get stuck in the fact that some invisible being would scare the soul out of us but how dangerous human can be we forget many a times. No wonder the insanely eerie expressions and feeling every character of the studio exuded was utterly frightening.

The casts are in one word P H E N O M E N A L. Im Si Wan has done a tremendous job as if he has a Phd on acting. The way he walked, eat, breathe, his facial expression in every incident, in every encounter with his costars, his spooky laughter, each and every little act was beyond perfection. He deserves a best actor award in this year. His performance was above effortless and natural.

The OSTs are also excellent. All of them displayed the right mood set by the story.

I wanted to rate it 9.5 but I won’t because there are few terrible loopholes which weakens the story in certain part.

All in all it is spectacular. Watch till the end. You would not regret.

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