So you think that Arlette's and the prostitute's background stories do make sense, huh?
oh, man.
I'm telling you 3 scenes that make MUCH more sense in the older version than in the new version:
Overall, IMHO every character's behaviour makes more sense in the older version.
I'll tell you the reason why
you like the new version the most: because you are an incest hardcore fan, therefore you are happy that
Anyway, the story is 90% basically the same.
Nice straw man argument, I never once brought it up but since you went there, the incest had no bearing in both versions since you got scenes with the mom in the original version, and you get scenes with Amber in both versions. To your point, we get more background on the non-incestual LIs, i.e., Arlette and Paz in the remake that were not present in the original version. If I am supposed to care about Arlette and Paz, it would be nice to have the proper context in how big of a role or impact they have in the MC's life.
As for the family confrontation, we still see that in the remake flashback... where the MC is kicked out of his house by his asshole dad while his mom and sister looked on helplessly, it made the original scene unnecessary, and chances are, we'll still see a version of it when we get the inevitable confrontation with the MC's dad in the present.
Finally, no one's behavior made sense in the original, it was a series of vignettes that were loosely connected if connected at all, and jumped from random character to random character with no real insight or explanation what was going on and why they were acting the way they did. What I took from the original was:
-The MC was depressed after Antonella walked out on him and their daughter
-Amber has always been in love with the MC
-MC has a daughter he has no emotional connection with yet she inexplicably became jealous
-MC was a cop
-MC had a smoking hot ex-partner who seemed too emotionally invested in his life
-MC has a random gf we see briefly in text messages
-MC has a dysfunctional family and an extreme asshole father who seems shady as fuck.
You know what was missing from those random scenes? That's right, context, the same thing the dev tried to showcase with the remake.