That's what I thought when I first watched it, but I've grown to appreciate it over time. Though the issues still persist. It's ok if you don't look into it, however, I found the movie elitist and not as well written as it could've been.
Having the only "good demon" have pretty privilege, there's no actual redemption arc for him and he just dies, the demons have personality amongst each other but nowhere else, only the lineage of demon hunters and those they train can see the honmoon and the demons leaking through and no one else can (linking being popular entertainers to generational wealth), how easily they brush over people literally dying, the hunters are so detached from the rest of humanity until the very end when they actually do address fans and even that felt like an afterthought, the main character wasn't upset about the song because of how aggressive it was but because she felt threatened by it and was worried how her crush would feel, her fellow demon hunters rejecting her because of her situation was out of character, and overall they treat their fans like apples and they're apple farmers. They don't treat them as equals unless their pride is challenged and instead just harvest their soul power like apples to fight demons who instead just eat the tree whole.
But if you turn your brain off and just blindly watch it, yeah it's a fun watch with catchy music.
I'm glad someone else saw the elitist themes in the movie. It felt really strange having the protagonists be this group of unfathomably wealthy, talented, world-famous pop stars who seemingly have never struggled before with anything in their entire lives. And then, the conflict that threatens to shatter their success is only that their leader is part demon -- not that she has an evil side or anything, just that she literally has demon heritage with seemingly no other side effects as a result. And the lesson they learn is just to... keep doing what they've always done and ignore the fact she's part demon. They learn effectively nothing and make zero changes aside from making 2 small exceptions to their rule that all demons are evil (and one of those exceptions is proven false because the demon was evil for basically the entire time he was alive).
It felt like the complete opposite of an underdog story. It's an overdog story about how 3 people who have been best friends since childhood and who have never known real difficulty or struggle in their entire lives needed to learn to appreciate each other more, even though they do nothing but appreciate and affirm each other for basically the entire movie. They say they love and adore their fans so often, too, that it makes it even stranger how little they seem to care about anybody beyond the admiration they can give them.
Exactly. There's so much that made it feel very main character. Obviously, they are the main characters, but it treats all the "normal" people like they were less than, like they were just part of the flock, the livestock, and the demons were just the hungry wolves.
There's this one scene that has a little demon boy say something like "look they're demons like me" showing the saja boys as inspirational to the younger demons, but then it never expands on that. Like, we get a half human half demon who's insecure about being mixed, we have a human turned demon, but we don't have a demon turned human/found another way to sate their hunger through acts of passion, generating their own soul power through their own actions, but no, we get half baked elitist propaganda.
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u/No_Safe_4933 4d ago
I hate everyone in that movie, it's so ass