Wow I am impressed on how this movie managed to keep me in complete focus with an issue of a story that starts right in the middle of a stablished dilemma. In this movie the sense of loss is the driving force and important part of a deranged and thrilling plot in regards of why it end up being as how it all start it.
What a plot, very well maintain all throughout, mixed with mysteries and a thriller accompanied with a provoking soundtrack which elevates the story and the experience even more. With an ending that was quite the unexpected and uncomfortable feeling of the horror this movie conveyed.
Fascinating movie which never stops loosing momentum. More so when this is almost two hours run, with a plot that felt like you not only were part of it, but was handled and arranged in such style by sharing two side from each defender with an effective exposition of progression be extra engaging, suspenseful as well as full of mystery and more so when you have an array of characters playing each their parts so well and believable. Ending as greatly as it began.
While the movie involves subjects of crime trough a murder, marital issue and the social entitlement division all societies have, this movie encapsules all of it into the same plot. Showcased in a familiarized structure on how these things end up being from each side, and more so the main protagonists. One thing the movie captivates really good with these scenarios is the poor and somber reality from every side. A group of entitled brats having too much power. A mother that feels and find herself lesser as a woman because she can’t give her husband what he yearns more while finding out the most painful truth. The husband constant decisions and his final move that has left him with an uncertain possible feeling of mistakes made. A friendship broken in the process and the victim's mother unknown to even the society itself because who she is. The movie really did a great representation of these social dilemmas in the way was wrote and interpreted.
Wow I most say, what a fantastic movie with a well scripted plot, that suddenly could mean the worst as this mystery moves along as you do with it. Revealing circumstances as it is being understood along side the main protagonist about his wife’s whereabouts trough her disappearance in a very convincing organic development. Did make me feel I was being a part of this riddle/puzzle, but never be ahead of the main protagonists dilemma until when the plot wanted to. Great script.
A charming movie no doubt about it, with a deep sentimental love plot wrapped into a fantastic twist that was the hidden dessert, and a hidden surprised with the way everything end up being.
The experience I had was so delightful, fun and joyful drama about a girl that has mental disability who falls in love with a police officer as him with her. A mother that loves her like no other and both chemistry is felt trough the screen making you laugh and cry with this mother and daughter relationship, and the somewhat romantic relationship she thinks she has with the officer. Here is when things start to change, when the drama kicks in trough when the comedic parts are coming to an end. Very nice movie and completely touching due to the acting of Kang Hye Jeong and Bae Jong Ok.
Great film, actually a beautiful film regarding family and belonging and forming such bonds trough it by maintaining and restoring the lost time. As being part of a community. Sweet slice of life.
From the many films with plot like this one, that I have seen so far, which equally represents the same subject matters, this film stands above the rest by itself. Differently representing a real unaltered reality of what corruption, mobster and money can do to the most as the title says, “shameless” of people that try to obtain outcomes with such behaviors. Nobody ends up being clean and unscathed by their shameless ways of doing what they do. A topic that entangled these two main leads and their own downfall. And that is what separates this movie from the rest, how it tackled the same subject matter in the most possible realistic way. Making the movie feel like was taken from an unnamed detective journal. The nudity could have been avoided; was the only thing I did not appreciated at all about this movie.
What a great sports movie, regardless of the fictional representation showcasing the players personal life and the process trough the team's Olympic games. Regardless it was a great movie which reminded me a lot of "As One" which was another great Korean sports movie. Goes to show even though movies like this don't tell the reality as how it really should, one thing is certainly truth, their sacrifices are real.
For those who like simple stories about what is meant to have a family and care for those who are unknown to us, this movie shows just that trough both main leads. A kid who's mother died long time ago and have felt unwanted, don't want to associate himself with any more step mothers in his life until here comes the last stepmother, sharing more similarities than expected and ending in an unexpected way making this low build up carried a deep cut of melancholy to the end with a small shine of hope.
This movie had me laughing each scene when it wanted me to, and made me cry when it wanted me to. A story that resonates with all of those that where kid once. Such a beautiful and touching story about friendship and your well know coming of age story, with the most genuine portrayals sharing with the viewer that particular and special unique heartfelt emotions.
Incredible story with powerful performances and above all, a great message about how law supposed to be taken with respect, care and for the good of the people.
Movies that tend to utilize sound design, by enforcing the plot trough the build up of what comes next, as cohesive it can feel merging both experience in one so it can emphasize urgency trough each moment are so rare to find. This movie surely felt that was carefully planned out to enrich that part of the experience, how the sound edit was handled was phenomenal, more so when you have earplugs, headphones put on or a good sound system. The movie does not waste time exposing us to what is going on and the dilemma that surrounds the main lead, in rapid fire edits that often times felt a bit much but understandably so giving the mission this movie has trough the plot is various, sense of despair and anxiety come to mind. The build up was compelling enough to maintain my focus throughout the movie while the ending was the surprised. Great movie and great acting.
One of the most delicate and full of warmth love story that felt as personal and secluded as movies with love stories like this can be. Reminding me so much on how "A Moment to Remember" tackled the same plot with a different premise that felt as equally delicate and personal as this move was. Absolutely beautiful.
A simple, funny and heartwarming developing plot in regards a man and the gift of being an everyday hero to others around. This movie is a slice of life.
A true touching hard story that shows the endurance of a family tragedy that fallows the imprisonment and the consequences of this mother and wife. Even though movies like this, alter things to be more "applicable" for a film and dramatic themes, it was quite the altered ending knowing that she really did her time and then came back to her home town. It is shocking how sometimes the ones that supposed to be for the people often times are the least capable to represent the people when political times like these happen to them.
When films give a sense of "calm before the storm" trough the eyes and perspective of your every day lead character with a rudimental life, job and a dilemma that will ensued afterwards as the development exposes circumstances through out a top notch entertainment and unforgettable experience. This is when films like this, gave impressive first impressions, with a smooth beginning until the start of that first call with an outstanding sound mixing. While continuously familiarizing your feelings with the lead character accompanied with a music sound mixed design developed as an statement of the struggle of what is to come between protagonist and antagonist. Outstanding film no doubt about it.
This film was always giving me enjoyment trough all the circumstances the main and entitled lead find himself with what end up being a great painful surprise for him and a delightful fun for us the viewers. When his life turned out to be distressful but for the better throughout a great comedy and emotional drama.
I am impressed with this film so much.
“Real gangsters like us hear people call us trash.” “And those who can’t act at all hear people call them real actors.” “Regular guys are the main characters of this world”.
I dint expect this movie to have this kind of philosophy like this, when you see the real meaning portrayed with these dialogs representing what the whole movie is meant to show and tell becoming more apparent at the end of its final scene. Felling that it has more to tell when you study each character. A gangster that sees his life become a joke, while trying to play an actor, but understanding at the end that his life is what it is. While an actor changes and matures understanding the truth, become a real man, not which is more important than being and looking like a real actor, taking responsibilities of his actions knowing what is real and what is worth in life and more so by the end. This film did give that to us, with a plot that felt more of a social criticism to that already well known inside world issue of actors and actress and regular people trying to be what they are not when hiding behind something is not even apparent for each respect person.
What a subtle ensuing plot with a dramatic impactful development with these characters and the life of this simple gangster involving the causes of what will happen as it did in the way it all concluded. The fact that the movie is two hours of run, by having too much room to expose and develop each character, was understood when the movie finalized each characters journey.
Beautiful, sweet and heartwarming story with a very touching plot that will culminate in an ending that melts the human heart.
This movie has a puzzle structural plot development surrounding a homicide case, with a screenwriting technic not often use in movies with same subject matter, giving it a special viewing experience. Due to how the camera works and tells the story of a plot that gives you a sense of urgency and in a serious reality. The movie sure was a spectacle to watch due to how the story progressed and was filmed and kept his phase well balanced and to the point continuesly giving this movie is two hours of run.
When people find themselves in circumstances that unfortunately change their state of their life, often is hard, and most of the time we forget that we still have the help from those around us if we don’t close ourselves to those around us. Or if the reach for help comes to us. Beautiful movie that reflects the hard truth of those that do relate.
What a sad story with events that rippled an effect that marked the present of these two wife’s miserable and painful current statuses. With a slow-moving plot unraveling the events as dialogs are being exposed to us the viewers to understand the situation as its being presented. Letting us know more and more that each wife has more in common than what it seems, just because how familiarized the situation is in this unfamiliar moment in their lifes. Honestly great movie, with great acting by both actresses.
Such a delicate and beautiful sad film. Interpreting the tales of Mao Zedong era trough the eyes of this family and what those decades brought to its citizens. Very touching.
Simple plot but yet so beautiful and moving story revealing a man with a hard life and attitude of stone due to the life he chooses to live by the work he does and so, he cross paths with whom becomes the love of his life that change his perspective with what both shared. Lovely movie.
What a beautiful film with a great story about sacrifices and turn of events in life that one’s have to overcome in order to become our own champions. Fascinating and emotional all throughout.
Phenomenal film with a unique cinematography atmospheric psychological thrill, focusing on the consequences of PTSD in the minds of those who suffered from impactful stressed events. Here is when the movie goes with that theme and expresses it with a compelling story using scenarios of the many symptoms this particular character is going through as she is being exposed by her own trauma that led her behaving in such manner. The overall great structural exposition with different collage scenes, where well puzzled together to convey that symptomatic behavior of her, which were the key to a great introduction to the characters and more so the finally we got, making it feel so inclusive and personal that all felt claustrophobic. Great film.
This film was fascinating for many reasons.
The movie has a fallow up history that surround itself into a true political struggle incorporate into the main plot has a secondary sub plot know in the dialog and some scenes of the character in 1979 (the past) from the female lead. Which did happen and a bit earlier since 1960s and the corruption of politic powers that want it to be maintain. If you do a research about the May 18 and the “Democracy Uprising” of the early decades since 1960s all up until where the movie sets itself in 1979. Then you’ll have a based understanding as to what they speak about and some scenes of what they referred about. (watch “The President’s Last Bang”-2005 for more reference of these particular decade).
In the meantime, the movie keeps the historical true political plot interwoven with the main one, but not overshadow it, since the movie goes through the main female lead motions and feelings of what is the future and the wonders of a world she doesn’t know while growing up and maturing in her world while finding out not only the history she lives in but her plot with this secondary male lead. Here is where the plot expands itself between these two and how the connections from the past changed the future for those who are known as “lost generation” and the sacrifices made for those in the future. Great outstanding movie, which felt like a love letter to the history of generations interpreted with these two characters stories.
Side note: Movies like... The President’s Last Bang, The Old Garden, The Attorney, A Taxi Driver, 1987 When the Day Comes. Are all movies that becomes a fallow up to these decades of subjugation and struggle with points of views from what many of the people that where there, saw and lived through.
