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Although I don't particularly like commenting on non-Asian films in this forum, I do want to follow up on @sitenoise reviewed and rated this film above (which I had never heard of), but it seemed intriguing enough for a Netflix rental. I really liked this. It got better as it went along. I...

I was never a big presence on IMDb. Basically, only for and to and also So, mainly as a reference site. I only posted a few times on the message boards. Certainly nothing like I do here. I didn't notice too much trolling at all, just the presence of occasional SPAM posts that had...

I also loved Blade Runner 2049. I mean, really loved it.

House of the Disappeared (2017) Ho-hum Korean haunted house/missing person mystery. Not really a horror film as, aside from a few easily telegraphed jump scares in the first 15 minutes, nothing scary ever happens. The story bounces between present day and an event 25 years earlier that has a...

Silenced (2011) People don't make (and folks don't watch) movies like Silenced to be "entertained." Rather, the goal is to trigger deeper emotions such as sadness, anger, outrage, and sense of justice. Films like this may also have the goal of drawing attention to some societal issue (and...

War of the Arrows (2011) Ok, I'm a sucker for Korean movies set during the funny hats days. You know what I'm talking about--that historical period (Chosun Dynasty) where village leaders wear those funny tall hats and scholars/persons of privilege wear beads and such. I just eat that stuff...

I'll probably never sit down to watch these movies, but it is fun and interesting reading your opinions of them.

Next Door: added to Netflix queue A Hard Day (Korea, 2014) Things go from bad to worse as a detective panics and tries to cover up his involvement with a fatal hit-and-run, including dispensing with the body. Starts off as more or a less a "comedy of errors" but turns darker (and the movie...

I contemplated this possibility as well. My second time through, I looked very carefully to see if I could determine this was a different girl and baby than the boarding room birth. That would make sense in the "riff on a theme" as you say, or the "eternal cycle" as I think I put it. I...

No, just the two. After the prologue, I believe the teen girl is the same alone and desperate girl throughout--pregnant, giving birth in the boarding house, and wandering the city streets at the end. Same girl. If this was unclear, I was just opining that the first (C-section) girl was not...

Venus Talk (2014) Cute and engaging Korean film with a trio of MILF-aged ladies and how they are negotiaing their sex lives and relationships. One wants to freely get it on with her fellow, but the fact that her 20-something daughter still lives at home and just won't leave, makes it...

I agree that the girlfriend arc was the weakest part of the first 2/3rds of the movie. She didn't grab me as a character; I'm guessing the director needed a "go-between" to assist in the English/Korean discussions/documents, etc. Or else the movie would have had every person speak English and...

I'll skip to #4 because I think you hit something there that was my exact interpretation, and I thought it might just only be me. 4) After my referenced scene 3, the daughter (the two women who run the motel are mother/daughter, so I'll just refer to them as such) is emotionally distraught...

I've continued the discussion of A Blind River here: https://www.imdforums.com/threads/discussion-of-korean-movie-a-blind-river.4318/ in order to not bogart this thread.

So what parts did I like? 1) The opening scene. 2) The whole storyline of the pregnant teen-age girl. 3) The scene where the distraught woman goes through the chapel grabbing at children (so masterfully done). 4) The scene of raw physicality between the young man and the motel daughter...

Rather than tie up the monthly "watched" thread with one movie, I'll continue the discussion here. Ok; I've watched the movie twice in the past two nights. I found it refreshingly unique and original but ultimately unsatisfying. There were individual scenes of pure brilliance and "can't...

If y'all recall from the January thread, there was a bit of discussion on this movie: The DVD arrived and it was a factory sealed perfect condition Korean DVD with English subtitles. I watched it last night. Today I read through the review/comments of @sitenoise and @clayton-12 in our...

Bookmarking the thread w/o reading it. The DVD should be on the way to me soon. Once I watch it, I'll weigh in.

I remember the first Korean movie that disappointed me as being just the same as Hollywood crap. Up until this movie, I enjoyed the special "Korean-ess" of their audience-pleasing genres. Silly romantic comedy? Sure, but somehow a silly Korean rom-com was watchable and fun, whereas a...

For this particular circumstance, whatever works best for the forum is fine by me.