Dongsoo leads a solitary life, spending his time uploading music to the internet. His ordinary life is upended when he is kidnapped by an organ hunter, who takes out one of his eyes. Soon, Dongsoo is sharing the vision of someone who got his eye. Through the connected vision, he learns that the taker is a notorious serial killer, and pursues the murderer to get his eye back.
命运连结, 異感追擊：連瞳, اتصال, Interligados, コネクト, Napojení, Szemet szemért, Связь, Occhio per occhio, À vue d'œil, Oko sprawiedliwości, الارتباط, Liên Kết Vận Mệnh, Зв'язок, קונקט, เผ่าพันธุ์อมตะ, Веза, Connect: 連瞳, Σύνδεση
Not a bad miniseries by any means. It features a really great and interesting premise, gore, cool regeneration effects, a few neat fighting scenes, plenty of blood, and some gigantic, brutal fans of Slipknot. The whole thing with the statues is dope; I adored the designs and positions, such a creative form of killing/death. The performances are all really great, especially Jung Hae In (D.P.), who delivers very well on the confusion, sadness, and frustrations of growing up this way and seeing as a monster, which makes the little moments of joy he gets to experience more cathartic and somewhat “tragic.” Kyung-pyo makes for a neat serial killer, though he’s far from the creepiest or most…
damn all he wanted was his eyeball
"Colorful Junks"
"I don't dislike the familiarity, but it doesn't feel good either. Feels like shit."
Go Kyung-pyo brings to life the scariest moptop murder since Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh. This shit's great. When the simplest way to describe your plot is "singer / songwriter / cyborg get his eyeball stolen & transplanted into a serial killer / sculptor who he must attempt to foil" you know you've got something special. Though that's no surprise coming from a brilliant mind like Miike.
felt like there's nothing miike hasn't tried til i realized i was thinking "wow this is the greatest first kiss scene i've ever seen" SO he's still bringing the shocks in 2022
just give back dongsoo’s eye please 😭
***uhhhhhh, fair disclaimer/warning/apology, but the word vomit below is barely even about "Connect", just a much broader Miike train of thought that the show happened to send me on, and so you have been advised***
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Alright, so can ANYBODY in this god forsaken internet tell me whatever the hell happened to former Miike editor Yasushi Shimamura??? I can find literally zero information about him online beyond his filmographies on various nerd ass websites, which credit him as editor on nearly* every single Takashi Miike joint all the way up till 2008, and less than a dozen other non-Miike films (all extremely obscure, zero AFTER his final Miike film), and only one single, mockingly blurry, supposed photo of him. Is…
Miike Takashi has made one of the most unique Korean dramas of all!
watching for my boyfriend (jung haein) he (jung haein) is so pretty (jung haein)
loved seeing Miike work in the Kdrama space. it lends itself well to several of his quirkier tendencies, tones that sometimes can feel incongruent on paper but harmonize well in actual practice. while there a couple of devices used a little heavy-handedly and some concepts inferred but not explored, the overall result still flows with some surprisingly pleasant resolutions. also, somewhere deep in the bones of what really makes this show work is how Miike is always trying to shoehorn some diegetic music in as prominently as possible, and while they didn't let him go full music video (e.g. Zebraman 2) they let him flirt with it a lot here
overall happy to have seen it. impressed by the acting talent on display here, and looking forward to watching some work from them outside this genre to see more of their range
"This world's never been kind to me. I shouldn't have trusted a detective"
Well.. I'm the one who shouldn't have trusted this series would end so easily with only 6 episodes, lol
an absolute greatest hits run for a Miike-head like me, and how the fuck Disney+ hired him for a show with eyeballs, decapitated heads and a body exploding as it plunges from a skyscraper I have no idea, but I’m fucking grateful. This is the most gleeful and exciting he’s been since the pandemic, using probably his highest budget for his cleanest images, but only to use the gloss to add extra polish to his usual Miike-isms. There’s pathos, empathy, and bonding over marginalised bodies across all the ultraviolence, as well as distrust in cops; the only way to get shit done is to do it yourself.
And therefore I’ll dispel the pain of others, For it is simply pain, just like my own. And others I will aid and benefit, For they are living beings, like my body.
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kim hyejun i love you so much!! the concept with the corpse art killer and the whole premise was fun and the fast pacing made this even more enjoyable to watch but also kind of wished the ending didn’t set up for a 2nd season? feel like i would have liked this even more if they just wrapped things up nicely and all.
