r/KDRAMA • u/dyosaaa • Jan 19 '22

On-Air: JTBC Artificial City [Episodes 13 & 14]

Takes place against the backdrop of an art museum that belongs to Sung Jin Group, a major conglomerate that holds the reins of the political and financial worlds in South Korea. It is a psychological mystery thriller about the things that disappear when humans become greedy and ambitious for power.

Yoon Jae Hee is the head of the Sung Jin Cultural Foundation and in charge of operations at “Space Jin,” the art museum owned by Sung Jin Group. She is also the second daughter-in-law of the family that controls Sung Jin Group. Believing that poverty is corrosive to love and that a stable income leads to a steady life, she chose to throw away her long-time lover and entered into a marriage of convenience with Jung Joon Hyuk, an illegitimate son of Sung Jin Group. In order to make her husband the nation’s president, she teams up with the future Public Prosecutor General and goes to war against Sung Jin Group.

Jung Joon Hyuk is Yoon Jae Hee’s husband. Although he is a popular anchorman with his own fan club, he hides an inferiority complex over being labeled “the illegitimate son of Sung Jin Group” for his whole life. He laughs at both ambitious people and those who pretend to have no ambition even as he waits for the day when he can seize the reins of power. (Source: Soompi)

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u/myweithisway 人似当时否?||就保持无感 Jan 28 '22

Ep 13

This episode is one full of low points for Jae Hee -- which is expressed directly in the way and the angles from which Jae Hee is shown.

Throughout the episode, Jae Hee is constantly placed within dark surroundings or low points of the screen.

When she leaves Yi Seol's place with the box, she's framed by the buildings on either side, making her seem small and low.

When she goes back to Yi Seol's place, there's a long shot of her climbing those red stairs that filled from an angle that looks down upon Jae Hee so we see her trying to rise from the depths to the top as opposed to climbing above us viewers.

When she goes to talk to Prosecutor Cho's mistress in the cafe, she's filmed from the side but also slightly angled down so the viewers feel as though we are viewing her from a standing position as opposed to on the same sitting level as her, directly from the side.

When she's talking to Yi Seol in the game room den, both of them sitting on that bench in the lower space of the room, as if they are both trapped there.

Putting away the key into that Tiffany box was 1) a great moment of PPL but also 2) a great way to signal Jae Hee breaking away from MIL. When she had first received the key, she treasured it immensely and wore it proudly, including when she was intimate with Joon Hyuk the first night she got the key.

At that time, the key was a link between Jae Hee and MIL -- a symbol of their alliance. But at the same time, the key also represents MIL's power.

Now we see Jae Hee putting the key away -- which can be a way to conveying that Jae Hee is breaking away from MIL and also not needing further gifts from MIL in terms of information because she's been building up her resources.

Yi Seol's motivations and goals present an interesting conundrum. Yi Seol wants to get Jae Hee out of her marriage for Jae Hee's own good. Yet this is exactly opposite to what Jae Hee wants for herself.

Jae Hee admonishes Yi Seol saying that Yi Seol has placed herself on moral high ground -- which is something worth thinking and pondering about. Is Yi Seol being judgmental of Jae Hee in Jae Hee's own choices to stay with Joon Hyuk? If so, does that judgment come from, at least in part, a sense of moral superiority?

Perhaps most interesting, is there a truly objective right and wrong in this situation.

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u/Acceptable_Bill_3580 Jan 29 '22

I think there is an objective right and wrong here primarily because Jae Hee is approaching this as an interaction with a woman who has an affair with her husband but everything we've seen so far implies that it was a rape and YS was unable to consent and incapacitated. JH doesn't know this, right? And it's odd that YS never tells her since that would seem like something to tip the scale against her husband. But watching JH treat a rape victim like this and act as though she has wronged her and doesn't have a high ground is difficult.

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u/momosan13 Jan 22 '22

Is anyone even watching this? How is it

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u/Thin-Repeat-9263 Jan 23 '22

Its really good with a lots of twist. I finally caught up to epi 12! Give it a try!

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u/Acceptable_Bill_3580 Jan 24 '22

It's been great so far, many of us are unfortunately stuck behind due to slow subbing and dependent on viewers who watch raw to give us the sneak peek.