by en.k-Bridge If a gun’s trigger were resting under my fingertip, we...
If a gun’s trigger were resting under my fingertip, we’ve all had that thought experiment. When you’re so wronged that anger fills every corner, the urge to pull the trigger can creep in. The trigger of anger, the trigger of resentment, the trigger of wanting to kill—does that tiny motion come from a sudden impulse, or from pain that has piled up over time?
Trigger keeps asking that human, fundamental question. To carry out my sense of righteousness, do the means automatically earn moral permission? Or does the very name of “righteousness” end up allowing another act of destruction?
Series Info
- Title: Trigger (트리거)
- Writer: Kwon O-seung
- Cast: Kim Nam-gil, Kim Young-kwang, and more
- Release: July 25, 2025
- Platform: Netflix
- Genres: Action, Crime
- Running Time: 10 episodes, total 468 minutes (approx. 7h 48m)
Characters
Synopsis
Gunshots ring out across South Korean cities—where firearms are illegal. People keep dying, and the police form a task force to find who’s behind it. They soon discover this: the shooters received guns by courier, and someone engineered them to pull the trigger.
The series walks the tightrope between powerlessness and rage, moving past “who fired” to ask “why they fired.” That’s the question Trigger won’t let go.
Viewing Points
Trigger is compelling because tension doesn’t live in one or two leads—it’s braided from many people’s clashes. Kim Nam-gil’s character wavers between old wounds and present duty; Kim Young-kwang’s is more head-on, acting fast yet wrestling with what that makes him.
The people around them aren’t just background. Some try to justify events in the name of law and order; others insist, “If we don’t act now, it’ll be too late.” Victims’ families cry for someone to pay a price, and the task force pursues answers while being pulled by the weight of the shooters’ motives. Each person’s stance and one stray sentence can be what nudges someone’s fingertip onto the trigger.
Each episode spotlights a different conflict: a victim cornered by injustice, a group wavering between legality and “necessary” force, a colleague who tries to stop a split-second impulse. It’s less about who fired than about how people carry anger—and what they lose or gain at the end of that road.
Trigger keeps comparing the aftermath of two choices—pulling the trigger or holding back—and quietly asks: “Which would you choose?”
Personal Thoughts
The question I opened with never left me: “If I’m unbearably wronged and someone puts a gun in my hand, would I pull the trigger?” It doesn’t feel like a hypothetical. It feels like a fear we all carry somewhere.
Trigger isn’t really about shootouts. Some people couldn’t hold it in and moved their finger; others held on until the end. The outcomes weren’t the same. Pulling the trigger looked like relief for a second, but what followed was hollow and scarring.
Those who didn’t fire felt stuck at first, but time opened other doors. That contrast felt painfully true. In real life, venting anger can feel great in the moment—yet what lingers are the broken pieces of our relationships.
That’s why the show’s message hit hard: does my sense of righteousness really guarantee that my means are justified? Our anger can be legitimate. But if the way we release it creates new wounds, we’re left with a burden we can’t easily carry. Trigger shows that without preaching—through faces and quiet frames.
Here’s where I landed. The trigger may sit under my finger, but its weight isn’t mine alone, and my choice will leave deep marks on people around me. Maybe courage isn’t about pulling—it’s about finding another way to hold my hand back in that second. Trigger is a gentle reminder not to forget that.
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