Kerberos Saga & Jin-Roh | STEVEM

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The 2018 Korean adaptation isn't bad.

It has a minor identity crisis at the midpoint, tries to add nuance where there isn't room but in the end none of its missteps matter.
It stayed true to the message.

Sometimes men are not disguised as mere dogs. They are wolves disguised as men. Force is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived and there are men who were born with the instinctual desire to exude force. No master, no loyalty, No convincing them to lay down arms. Violence is their nature and to refuse to use them is to welcome death by those who will.

You can try to media literacy away the uncomfortable truth, but the entire franchise exists to showcase the brutality of man.
Who directs the wolves does not matter, they are wolves regardless. The blunt primal messaging makes some people very uncomfortable.
And to those, no. You can't explain it away or hide the fact they we are animals, your creature comforts will not dull everyone into being docile.

God I want more stories that explore the horrors of out base instincts, no contemporary politics, no rationalising abstracts such as Good or Evil.
Just the horrors of men, and what we did for hundreds of thousands of years before agriculture. Survive & thrive as the hunters we evolved into.
(And yes, women are more than capable of behaving like this too but when it comes to uncomfortable truths we are accustomed to gender coding violence)