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Why Netflix’s A Killer Paradox, with Choi Woo-shik as a university student who kills criminals, isn’t a vigilante story
- Netflix K-drama A Killer Paradox follows a university student who kills criminals, but director Lee Chang-hee says he had ‘no intention of creating a dark hero’
- He says his aim was to ‘throw up a question’, while star Choi Woo-shik talks about making his character realistic to explore an extraordinary moral conundrum
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By Lee Gyu-lee
What are the chances that an ordinary university student would get involved in murders, especially where the victims are later revealed to be vicious criminals? Does this scenario represent merely a series of coincidental killings, or justice being served?
Netflix’s new original series A Killer Paradox explores this ethical conundrum through the story of university student Lee Tang (Choi Woo-shik), who finds himself in extraordinary situations.
“I wanted to throw up a question on what it would be like to have a figure like Lee Tang in real life,” says the series’ director, Lee Chang-hee. “He is a character who continuously questions whether killing wrongdoers is his special gift or a mere coincidence until the end.”
Based on the hit webtoon of the same name, the crime thriller series starts with Lee Tang accidentally killing a man who attacks him, only to later discover that the dead man was a serial killer.
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