#Hwayi: A Monster Boy

[hikarisbeam]

Why can't you pull the trigger? Do you see the monster again?

Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)

Beyond Evil (2021)

[citrinekay]

YEO JIN-GOO as HWAYI HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY (2013) dir. Jang Joon-hwan

[queenoftsage]

'I REALIZED I HAD STOCKHOLM SYNDROME!!! SO I TOOK REVENGE!!!' *extra super duper EMOTIONAL*

[the movie :

[vindicated-truth]

"I loved you." "Is that a reason?" "You wanted to hear this, right?"

Shin Hakyun || Yeo Jingoo

Beyond Evil AU Changgwi: Flowers Blooming At Night

Hwayi: A Monster Boy || The Villainess || The Crowned Clown || Empire of Lust

Original video by creator here

[queenoftsage]

Hwayi: A Monster Boy

'Here, bite on this.' and the photo has been snapped.

[lol... in this case its... poor Hwayi, not knowing how to react to this. XD]

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[yourmostdevoted]

i don't even go here yet but: beyond evil x monster boy crossover where han juwon is hwayi. hwayi took over his life, w/ his consent, when he found the boy dying as a teen. fast forward & hwayi, now hjw, will do anything to protect what's his, meaning lee dongsik.

hwayi has a lot less qualms about killing hjw's dad, who more than deserves it

op!bamf!hjw is what inspired this tbh.

[unnervinglyferal]

So I tend to have comfort movies

Now that I’m older it’s things like the Venom movies, or Hwayi: A Monster Boy

But when I was younger it was talking dog movies

I was a dog obsessed autistic child of course I loved the talking dog movies

I loved Air Buddies

But I also really liked Pup Star

There are four movies in the Pup Star series

And hoo boy do I have OPINIONS on them

The first two are good (well as good as they can be for what they are…)

I personally wish they hadn’t basically completely ignored and sidelined Charlie after the first movie, but also I kinda get it, his ark was over no matter how important he was for Tiny’s development

I liked the second movie, it introduced Tiny’s sister Scrappy, and Tiny’s love interest P.U.P.

But they completely botched the third and fourth movies

In the third they make Tiny a complete pushover, she might me a kind and fluffy pop star but she’s can hold her own, that how she survived living in Scrappy’s world during the second movie

Tiny wouldn’t just fucking let that prissy ass diva son of a bitch Julio mistreat her family, she did everything she could in both the first two movies to get back to them

AND ALSO they completely rushed P.U.P.’s and her romance

At the end of the second movie they had clearly established that there were feeling between them

And then we get a rush job of a wedding and puppies in the third????

Where is the romance??

The love??

NOT TO MENTION they made her kids such little shitty divas, not even in a cute kid way, no they were just complete jackasses

Tiny isn’t a fucking pushover, she totally has the sweet cute pop star energy, because that’s what she is, but she also managed to thrive in Scrappy’s underground rap world, because she’s not a pushover

There is no way her kids would end up being such little brats, especially since even if you had some horribly misguided assumption that Tiny would be enough of a pushover with her kids to let that happen their aunt was fucking Scrappy

The fourth movie was completely unwatchable because it was about her puppies and I couldn’t get through the third either

Completely botched her character

Having no prior knowledge of these movies' existence, this was nonetheless A Read. Rapper dogs out of nowhere.

[kang-yo-han]

Watching Hwayi: A Monster Boy and so far it’s been a sequence of me repeatedly saying “Oh, sweet baby, no. Oh, sweet baby, no” with increased urgency and despair each time

[love-me-a-lotta-whump]

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[kseniyagreen]

Two monsters in Jang Jun-hwan's films

"To stop seeing a monster, you need to become one"

The first (Save the Green Planet) and the second (Hwayi: A Monster Boy) feature films by the famous Korean director came out 10 years apart.

But although these works are very different in style and plot, there is a deep semantic connection between them. Both films deal with the theme of monsters.

Both films reflect the ruthless, ugly side of the world, where money can buy or sell human life, and even the police are on the payroll of gangsters. And those few police officers who can be called honest are too limited and are not able to see a living person behind the dossier. So the hero, who finds himself in an inhuman situation, can only rely on himself.

(This review contains spoilers) 

In both films, the central image is the hero, who, due to age, character, or social position, looks like a "little harmless man".

But being driven to despair, he turns into a cruel and furious monster slayer.

However, not all the monsters he sees are external. Some of them live in his own soul.

Save the green planet - a film-cabbage, a film - snag. At first, you think you understand what's going on. Crazy from grief and drugs, a man invented aliens and hunts them. By the end of the story, you start to wonder - what if he's not crazy? What if aliens are real? But the final shots make you wonder - what was actually happening on the screen in general? Or did everything really happen only in the imagination of the poor Byeong-gu? 

Aliens, bloody revenge, a strange image of either a girl or a circus woman - as if Lee Byeong-gu took the image of a girl from some old memories and tried to "grow" it to himself.

But then what is the movie about? Perhaps about the struggle for their inner humanity. But moral choice comes from the state of freedom. And freedom has two sides. To truly be human, you need to be aware of the inhuman in yourself.

Byeong-gu and Hwayi have very different personalities and destinies. But there is a bright unifying feature - they both see what others do not see. Hwayi calls it a monster. Byeong-gu - aliens. And in both cases, these images carry a dual meaning. That is, they cause fear and disgust of the characters, but at the same time, somewhere in the depths of the soul, they attract.

Declaring those whom he hates "aliens", Lee Byeong-gu , as it were, takes them out of a multitude of people, thus solving his moral contradiction. You can hate "non-humans", while continuing to feel your connection with the world of humans. As if taking out of the brackets of the human world what is unbearable, what Byeong-gu cannot accept and agree with.

But at the same time, the alien is Lee Byeong-gu himself. That part of him that feels superfluous in this world. And at some point it comes to the question: is this world worth saving? Or rather, is it worth to save his connection with this world?

The image of the monster in "Hwayi" is also ambivalent. On the one hand, the monster appears when Hwayi meets evil. The boy, stolen from his parents as a child and adopted by bandits, is used to taking his fathers and their "work" for granted. But the underlying feeling that something is very wrong here haunts Hwayi all these years, incarnating in the form of a monster at especially critical moments.

The conclusion suggests itself that the monster is an image of evil inside. But Hwayi's monster has the sparkling, mirror-like scales of a toy whale from his childhood. A single spark of memories of family and home.

Why did a child's toy turn into an image of a monster? Because it reminds him about something that does not allow Hwayi to integrate into the system. Fully adapt to the world of his "fathers", become the same as them - and no longer be afraid.

Byeong-gu had a victim's fate. Hwayi had a fate of a criminal, a predator. But the inability to fit into the system and just live life according to an already prepared scenario is what unites these two heroes. Natural sensitivity does not allow them to come to terms with life as it is. But the inhuman cruelty of the surrounding world seeps in, drop by drop, giving rise to a grave contradiction. And at the moment when the hero surrenders to the monster, he feels relieved for a moment.

In the life of both main characters there is also the image of a "monster mentor". In Byeong-gu's case, it's more of a part of himself. "Alien prince" (even a title straight from the fantasy of a child from a poor family), who became disillusioned with people and life in principle. And he wants to end this whole world that hurts him.

In Byeong-gu's internal struggle, after the death of his mother, this part of him wins.

In Hwayi's case, this monster is a very real external figure. The main of his "fathers", the most terrible and at the same time with him the strongest emotional connection.

It is interesting that if other "fathers" live like animals - doing evil, but not feeling it as evil, just living by their instincts. He always felt "dirty".

And judging by how eager he is to get Hwayi completely on his side, he still feels like that. Other bandits are not even puzzled by excuses. He brings an entire ideological base under his villainy - that becoming a monster is the only way out for people like him.

As if the thirst for warmth is combined in him with the desire to destroy it.

Young Hwayi turns out to be stronger than all his fathers - even the one who tried to hide from reality behind prayers. Because he can be a monster and a human at the same time.

 Byeong-gu loses his battle with the aliens, either completely losing touch with reality, or dying from drugs. Hwayi survives - accepting his inner monster enough to cold-bloodedly shoot the man who ordered his father's murder. But the final shots of Byeong-gu's memories and Hwayi's drawings give the feeling that the dream of lost harmony is alive.

The monster can be creepy, ugly. But his mirror skin is visible because it reflects the inner light

[oreharuuu]

Poll for my next work!

After watching Hwayi: a monster boy (which u guys should watch if u can handle gore and blood), I'm inspired to do a oneshot that somewhat relates to that vibe of the movie

For those who don't know and want some spoilers, the story will center around a boy that's been kidnapped by 5 guys and basically raised as an assassin/hitman, so a warning, there's gonna be lots of trauma and sensitive topics regarding to the story I'll write so be warned

Please vote on who should be the yandere! The one with the most votes will be the assassin lover boy ;)

Ofc no rush! I'm working on the last request before maybe working on it

[hikarisbeam]

He's a good kid, and he's very smart. Whatever he is taught, he learns quickly. He's also good at drawing.

He's such a wonderful child, but he has one illness. He keeps saying he sees things, and sometimes he has the fits. It's heartbreaking to see.

Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)

[citrinekay]

Every fucking farm grows Chinese juniper trees. Why does it have to be Chinese junipers? Why can't it be something more rare?

HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY (2013) dir. Jang Joon-hwan

[mystockprediction]

Yoo Yeon Seok - Bio, Profile, Facts, Age, Girlfriend, Ideal Type

Yoo Yeon Seok is a Korean actor. Throughout his career, he is popular for his iconic roles in various films and dramas, such as Hwayi: A monster boy (2013), Answer 1994 (2013), Romantic Dr (2016), and Hospital Playlist (2020). Career Inspired by his brother, Yoo Yeon Seok decided to become an actor by taking acting classes with his brother in Seoul. While he was taking classes, he once met a…

[vindicated-truth]

Oh Evilive is going to be broadcast in Japan for the first time!

I’m curious about the timing ‘cause Japan will also be showing a marathon of films and shows by Yeo Jingoo (Hwayi: A Monster Boy, The Crowned Clown, Beyond Evil), although that may be in part because Jingoo has yet another upcoming fanmeeting in Japan, and he’s always had a significantly strong fanbase there.

Considering the timing though, I wonder if this is Japan finally prepping the audience for that Beyond Evil remake 👀

(Or perhaps this is Japan finally realizing that thanks in part to Yeo Jingoo’s appearance on Beyond Evil, Shin Hakyun’s fanbase is growing in Japan too.

Either way—the timing is exciting! It feels a little like Hakyun and Jingoo are finally crossing paths again after so long 🥹)

[queenoftsage]

Hwayi: A Monster Boy

'HEY, can you draw me!?' ... the dreaded question artists are always asked. He handled it well... XD

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