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Korean Movie Recommendations

The Gangster, The cop, The devil 2019-Lee Won Tae Summary:           In a chilling rainy night, a serial killer picks the wrong victim and tries to stab to death a mafia leader. They both survive each other’s weapons, yet the gangster seeks revenge. A homicide police officer, desperate to prove that all the killing happening around was one man’s work, teams up with the gangster. They agree to catch the devil under any circumstances, but with one condition: Who puts their hands on him first has the right to decide his fate.                      Screened at the 2019 “Cannes Film Festival’’ as well as at the ’‘Fantasia International Film Festival”, the movie received endless praise. It didn’t attract the watchers with its originality. But with the way it breathed life into the already too much-explored topics by building characters far above their archetypes. 

           Don Lee, as always, raised the bar with his fairly amazing acting, as for Kim Mu-Yeol, it wasn’t his best work (coming from someone with high expectations after Forgotten 2017). Kim Sung Kyu, on the other hand, delivered a spectacular performance. I wasn’t expecting such credible gestures, but he was the perfect serial killer in all the ways possible. The writing lacked in certain areas, but we can forgive it as it compensated in the matter of thrill and exceptionally designed action scenes. 

The Outlaws 2017-Kang Yoon Sang  Summary:                   Based on the “Heuksapa Incident’’ from 2007, the story follows the tension that grows between the local gangs in Garibong-dong, Seoul’s China Town,  and three hatchet-wielding Chinese immigrants that quickly took over the area. Police get involved in an attempt to bring peace, but it all ends up in a real-life massacre. 

           Kang Yoon Sang’s debut work that brought him the ’'Best New Director” title at various film festivals such as the ’'Korean Association of Film Critics Awards’’ quickly became the third grossed R-rated film in Korea’s History.                With fight scenes amazingly choreographed and well-executed stunts, the movie is not reduced to a simple, fast-pacing action. It slows down at times to let you catch your breath and look at the beautifully portrayed relationships between the characters. We are presented with a functional, yet illegal and twisted world, placed in equilibrium, as a new arrival becomes a threat to this already rotten system. 

The Yellow Sea 2010-Na Hong Jin Summary:             A taxi driver from the Yanbian Korean Prefecture in China lives his life in poverty as his wife left him with a child and enormous debt. He gets in contact with a gangster who offers to repay his debt in exchange for his services. The man is provided with a boat ticket and enough money to go to Korea to kill a certain professor. One second he is analyzing his future victim, following his every move, the next, he is making a run for his freedom.

             Another one of Na Hong Jin’s gems and probably my favorite film of his, “The Yellow Sea” is an exceptionally well-written story with beautifully composed action, every shot possibly being a superb work of photography. One of my favorite aspects of this movie is that the characters aren’t black nor white. They are different shades of grey, this way avoiding conventional absolutes and allowing you to identify even with the worst of the worst.                  I was already familiar with Ha Jung Woo’s acting as he had crucial roles in two of my favorite pictures: “The Handmaiden” and “Along with the Gods”. And he fascinated the audience once again with his talent and flexibility in acting, therefore receiving numerous awards. One of Hong’s most underrated films, nowhere near as talked about as ’'The Wailing“ or ’'The Chaser’’, became, for me, a representative piece of Korean Cinema and a real inspiration for my own art. 

I hope you guys will like it, it has been in my drafts for so long and I haven’t been posting in a while. I just wanted you all to know that I’m alive and writing. Thanks for reading up until here. All the love!!

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SAVE ME 2017

I just recently just finished watching the K-drama save me and it was horrifying, like I was so disgusted by what they did to poor sang-mi because throughout the show she was still very young. It was very well crafted and the whole cult situation they have presented in this show is actually really accurate. Many of these cults are there to exploit people, they take naïve peoples money and violate women's rights.

I am so glad they made sang mi as a very strong willed person that went through all this so courageously, but the amount of times I wanted to hit the dad was insane, cause how can you give your daughter out to some 50 year old pedophile? As much as I acknowledge that we was brain washed I still don't support him, but sang mi's mom on the other hand was the most amazing character. Even though she was tricked and not in the best of health she still tried to protect her child and supported her. She was sort of sang mi's strength.

I think I may have different opinions about jo wan tae, like yeah i absolutely despise him. but I think he was the most bearable person in the whole show because his intentions were always clear from the start, like he almost was like a normal person he didn't believe in the cult but whatever he did was still atrocious and he deserved what he got.

then there is the priest... he was some different kind of crazy it felt like he actually believed in whatever bullshit he said. Maybe after some time after he opened the cult he just lost track of all the lies and just started believing in them.

i have mixed feeling about kang il shil and han sang hawan...

but I loved woo do hwan cause he actually cared for sang mi and helped her and did something, he took action and he was always there to help sang mi and her mother.