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Tag Archives: Korean Movie
Dooman River (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Bleak sorrow on a frozen river
The cold, white bleakness dominates over South Korean art house movie “Dooman River”. With its simple storytelling, it presents us an austere view on the world which is alien even to the South Korean audiences. While observing its people, this … Continue reading
The Journal of Musan (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5) : A lonely man struggling at the bottom
You may not notice him while walking around the streets of Seoul. He is a lonely man downtrodden everyday at the bottom of South Korean society. He is usually quiet with passive attitude and his drooped head. He has silently … Continue reading
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Tagged Church, Dog, Drama, Fraud, Korean Movie, North Korean, Unemployment
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Bedevilled (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : There will be revenge
Revenge is served raw and simple in “Bedevilled”(2010). The movie delivers exactly what it promises to us, but that is not for free. There are barbarous scenes that make you wince, and then there are bloody scenes that make you … Continue reading
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Tagged Domestic Violence, Horror, island, Korean Movie, revenge, Serial Killing, sexual abuse, Slasher, Thriller
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The Unjust (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Mean System
There is one scene that strikes me hard in the middle of “The Unjust”. It is one of many unjust things happening on the screen, but none of two main characters who occupy that scene is someone we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Corruption, Drama, Korean Movie, Police, Presecutor, Serial Killing
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Breathless (2009) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Abuse is thicker than water
Sang-hoon is a terrifying piece of work. He is someone you never want to mess up with. He is callous, narrow-minded, vulgar and, above all, very volatile. Whenever his hair-trigger fury erupts, there is more than hell to pay – and that happens often. Even when his temper relatively abates, he is still difficult and hostile to communicate with, probably even with himself. In the opening sequence, we see a young woman being beaten by some guy in the night streets. Sang-hoon appears and he savagely beats that guy. And then, he spits at her, smacks her, and insults her.
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I Saw the Devil (2010) ☆☆☆ (3/4) : It has everything – including a toilet stool
“I Saw the Devil” provides almost everything to shock you and repel you – and I admired it at some degree. The movie acquired its notoriety even before its release in South Korea due to the conflict with Korean Media Rating Board(About 1.5 minutes was cut from the original version in the end). It has been striking our Korean audience with a little mercy since this Thursday while inducing discussions among them about the violence in the movies. I guarantee you, the movie will be the most controversial South Korean movie of this year.
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71: Into the Fire (2010) ☆1/2 (1.5/4) : Awful Hollowness based on a real-life war story
Fortunately, “71: Into the Fire”, officially released on last Thursday in South Korea, is not the bottom of the barrel. But still, it’s near the bottom of the barrel. The movie is not as ideologically repulsive as I feared, but … Continue reading