Strangers from Hell (2019)

L’enfer, c’est les autres…

Ce drama fait partie de ceux que j’ai essayé et laissé de côté. Puis, j’ai fini par y revenir & étonnamment, malgré l’atmosphère des plus glauques, j’ai voulu savoir la finalité.

Quel est le sujet de cette histoire ? Les tueurs en série… & la folie. (C’est plus ou moins tout… Mais c’est tellement bien travaillé qu’on reste scotché devant notre écran…)

J’ai admiré la prestation de Lee Dong-Wook que je n’avais jamais vu dans ce type de registre ! Il m’a littéralement glacée ! (Je pense que si je l’avais rencontré en rue dans ce rôle, je ne serai pas restée longtemps dans les parages ^^’) Son personnage semble tellement détaché de tout, comme si rien n’avait d’importance… C’est sans doute, ce qui le rend si dangereux…
Im Si-Wan m’a également « régalée » (Si on veut hein, car lui aussi, il est flippant !) dans sa prestation, la montée de sa folie semblait tellement réelle…

Si je devais vous dire si j’ai aimé ou non cette histoire, je pense que je ne saurais que répondre car il ne s’agit pas d’un drama que je regarderai à nouveau mais il m’a apporté des sensations (Cette sensation horrible, insidieuse, telle un serpent qui se promène le long de la colonne vertébrale & fini par me glacer… ) que je n’avais pas encore ressenti avec d’autres histoires… Comme mentionné plus haut, l’histoire n’a pas de réelle prétention et ne parle que de meurtres & de la folie qui en résulte (enfin, en résulte-t-elle ou est-elle l’enclencheur de tout ça ? Aller savoir…) mais quelque part, c’est surtout un drama visant la psychologie de chacun des protagonistes/antagonistes.

Je terminerai cet avis en disant que ce drama me laisse une impression étrange… Durant tout mon visionnage, j’ai été mal à l’aise… Alors que je suivais le parcours du « héros » j’avais la sensation que moi aussi la folie allait me prendre à la gorge… L’ambiance est tellement lourde, glauque & malsaine que j’ai parfois eu l’impression que je pourrais étouffer… [Vous me direz, ce n’est qu’un drama. Certes, mais je ne saurai comment expliquer la sensation qu’il m’a insufflé… C’est la première fois que j’étais aussi « étrange » en regardant un(e) série/film (& pourtant j’en ai vu des séries/films glauques !!)]

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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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