god damn it’s such a hard read, not just because there’s so much graphic rape shown but also because there’s barely anything positive or hopeful happening to contrast that and give the reader some room to breathe. it’s one thing somehow nice happening to geom and then twenty absolutely horrific and utterly traumatizing that follow right after. also, i have no idea how on earth geom has no STDs or his hole is still intact after so much unprotected and violent rape he had to endure. it’s also hard to believe that every single man that sees geom even breathing instantly wants to fuck him and just happens to be extremely violent and sadistic during it.
other than that, i can’t help but be intrigued by rieder’s character. he’s absolutely vile and seemingly has no empathy at all, finding pleasure in seeing more and more ways of geom getting broken, yet still caring about him if only to keep him as a toy for just a little longer. at one point when prosecutor lee meets with rieder, he thinks that geom and rieder are similar to each other and once he pointed that out, i couldn’t stop thinking about it. there’s something in rieder’s empty and emotionless gaze that is both mysterious and just hopeless, and given what the story has implied so far, i think he probably went through some hell himself, maybe not the same in terms of intensity as geom, but i think there were some things that happened in his past that stripped him from his humanity completely and i’m so fascinated with what they were. i just wish we can learn something more about him, especially with how chapter 57 ended, because so far, he’s been a pretty interesting but still quite one-dimensional character purely because we know basically nothing about him and his past.
god damn it’s such a hard read, not just because there’s so much graphic rape shown but also because there’s barely anything positive or hopeful happening to contrast that and give the reader some room to breathe. it’s one thing somehow nice happening to geom and then twenty absolutely horrific and utterly traumatizing that follow right after. also, i have no idea how on earth geom has no STDs or his hole is still intact after so much unprotected and violent rape he had to endure. it’s also hard to believe that every single man that sees geom even breathing instantly wants to fuck him and just happens to be extremely violent and sadistic during it.
other than that, i can’t help but be intrigued by rieder’s character. he’s absolutely vile and seemingly has no empathy at all, finding pleasure in seeing more and more ways of geom getting broken, yet still caring about him if only to keep him as a toy for just a little longer. at one point when prosecutor lee meets with rieder, he thinks that geom and rieder are similar to each other and once he pointed that out, i couldn’t stop thinking about it. there’s something in rieder’s empty and emotionless gaze that is both mysterious and just hopeless, and given what the story has implied so far, i think he probably went through some hell himself, maybe not the same in terms of intensity as geom, but i think there were some things that happened in his past that stripped him from his humanity completely and i’m so fascinated with what they were. i just wish we can learn something more about him, especially with how chapter 57 ended, because so far, he’s been a pretty interesting but still quite one-dimensional character purely because we know basically nothing about him and his past.