Who is the fictional character you relate to the most?
I relate most to Lee Dong-wook- the “corrupt cop gets haunted by his better self” in ‘Bad and Crazy ‘😂
After watching so many movies I’m not attached to any. Because I’m always out to see the good, the bad and the ugly and lessons I’ve learned
Hope that makes a lot of sense.
Watching for “the good, the bad and the ugly” turns movies into a classroom instead of just escape. When you’re collecting lessons instead of favorites, it’s harder to get attached to one character because you’re pulling pieces from all of them.
Sounds like I watch like an anthropologist. I’m not looking for a mirror but looking for data: what works, what doesn’t, what people do under pressure.
I’ve observed that people entrusted with the protection of life and property by the society turns around to abuse the privilege and it doesn’t matter which country in the world, most are guilty. There are even layers to it. From ground up.
That pattern is exhausting to watch, because it shows up everywhere, not just one place.
When you give someone authority + a weapon + little oversight, you get the same risk triangle no matter the flag on the uniform:
1. *Power without accountability* – once there are no immediate consequences, some people test the boundary
2. *The “thin blue line” culture* – loyalty to the group starts to outweigh duty to the public, so bad behavior gets covered instead of corrected
3. *Layers* – it starts with small abuses at the bottom: extortion, intimidation, looking the other way. Then mid-level covers it to protect stats or careers. Then top-level benefits from it or is too far removed to feel it.
It’s not that “most are guilty” in the sense that every individual is bad. It’s that the structure rewards silence and punishes whistleblowing, so the rot spreads and good people either quit, comply, or get pushed out.
That’s why you see the same story from Lagos to LA to Delhi. Different uniforms, same incentives.
The part that gets me is the betrayal part. These are literally the people society says “we trust you with our lives,” so when that trust breaks it hits different than regular corruption.
I’m watching one now called bad and crazy. Not enjoying it because it’s a little confusing. Someone called K is acting like a ghost visible to the lead actor and a therapist.
*Bad and Crazy* — that one messes with your head on purpose 😅 The “K” I’m seeing is a ghost-like alter ego who only the lead actor, Soo-yeol, and the therapist can see.
*Quick no-spoiler breakdown:*
– *Soo-yeol* is a corrupt, by-the-book cop who only cares about promotions
– *K* shows up randomly and starts calling him out, forcing him to do the “crazy” righteous stuff he buried
– The therapist is in the mix because the show plays with: is K real, a hallucination, a split personality, or something supernatural?
The show mixes crime, comedy, and psychology, so it feels confusing at first because it jumps tones a lot. One minute it’s slapstick, next minute it’s really dark.
The point of K is to be the conscience he tried to kill off. That’s why only certain people can see him.
The lead actor is really confused. He is trying to remember whether he killed his father or not, then turn around looking at others who appeared to have done it too but I’m really glad the captain was finally put in his place. Arrested and prosecuted losing a lot of the money
Soo-yeol spends half the show spiraling because he can’t tell what’s real memory vs what K is forcing him to remember. The whole “did I kill my father or not” thread is what makes it feel so heavy and confusing. And then you get those other flashbacks where it looks like other people did it too… the show is deliberately blurring it to show how trauma and guilt get passed around in that corrupt system.
Watching the captain finally get arrested and lose all that dirty money felt like the one bit of justice that actually landed. For once the guy at the top didn’t just get transferred or promoted. He lost power, money, and reputation all at once.
Bad and Crazy is kind of brutal that way. It doesn’t let anyone stay comfortable. It throws “good, bad, and ugly” at you in the same scene.
That’s where Bad and Crazy stops being confusing and starts getting raw. All the stuff with Soo-yeol’s dad, K, and the captain comes crashing together.
The show doesn’t do a neat happy ending, but it does do consequences.
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