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Tag Archives: Alienation
Elegant Lies (2014) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Tears within its cool restraint
South Korean film “Elegant Lies” has a fair share of tears to shed inside its story, but it holds them with admirable restraint while rarely resorting to cheap melodrama overflowing with tears. This is a sad story about how … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Mother and daughter, School, Sisters, South Korean Film, Suicide
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The Hunt (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : An unjust ordeal caused by an innocent lie
It was just one small innocent lie, but, once people start to believe it, it topples one man’s life upside down, and his life becomes a living purgatory as a result. Through the unjust ordeal of its ordinary hero, Danish … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Children, Kindergarten, Rumor, Sexual Molestation, Teacher, Thriller
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