Tag Archives: Bullying

Your Letter (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Searching for his letters

Posted on October 4, 2025 by kaist455

South Korean animation feature film “Your Letter” is a simple but engaging coming-of-age drama about friendship and solidarity. Often reminiscent of the mood and style of Japanese animation films, the movie has several lovely visual moments to remember, and that … Continue reading →

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Playground (2021) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4) : Her little struggle at the school

Posted on June 4, 2022 by kaist455

“Playground”, which was selected the Belgian entry for the Best International Film Oscar in last year, is often quite difficult to watch. As firmly sticking to its little young heroine’s limited perspective, the movie closely and vividly observes her conflicts … Continue reading →

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I Want to Know Your Parents (2022) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Parents worse than their kids

Posted on April 28, 2022 by kaist455

I came to have some reservation as watching South Korean film “I Want to Know Your Parents”, which is finally released here in South Korean theaters after being suspended for several years due to the allegations of sexual harassment on … Continue reading →

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Better Days (2019) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4): Her bodyguard

Posted on August 2, 2020 by kaist455

Chinese film “Better Days” is a familiar but compelling mixture of brutal school drama, sensitive coming-of-age tale, and unabashedly old-fashioned romance. Right from the beginning, you can clearly discern what you are going to get, but then you will find … Continue reading →

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A Stray Goat (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): A melancholic wintry tale of two troubled teenagers

Posted on March 16, 2017 by kaist455

I once wondered whether sad, cold independent movies about desperate people were becoming a genre of their own. Usually filled with somber wintry ambience, such movies tend to serve us with the bleak sense of harsh reality via their gloomy … Continue reading →

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Night Flight (2014) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Alone in a harsh school life

Posted on August 31, 2014 by kaist455

 When I searched for the articles about South Korean film “Night Flight” not long after watching it, I came across an article about its press conference attended by the director Lee Song-hee-il and his actors. According to the director, the … Continue reading →

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Disconnect (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Only connect…

Posted on October 11, 2013 by kaist455

  I am sometimes amazed by how much our society has been changed by the rapid advance of Internet technology during recent years. Thanks to the development of various Internet services for communication, we can contact far more easily with … Continue reading →

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Bully (2011) ☆☆☆(3/4) : These painful cases of bullied kids

Posted on August 25, 2012 by kaist455

They say something like “they are just kids”, but we should not forget that bullying is a cruel thing to its helpless victims. Lee Hirsch’s documentary “Bully” presents us five kids as its painful examples and it shows us how … Continue reading →

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Chronicle (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : They’ve got the power, but…

Posted on March 17, 2012 by kaist455

“Chronicle” is an interesting SF drama working well as the mix of the two film genres which have become notably prevalent during the last decade. On the surface, it presents itself as one of those ‘found footage’ movies a la … Continue reading →

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