This movie hit my feelings strongly and unexpectedly. While the movie take its time, exploring and revealing each characters motivations and life status with their own issues and environments to deal with as movie progresses from one another. That particular development was the movies plot strong trump card from what came next.
That was a great motivator for why and what things are the way they are, with each sister, and how end up the way each of them did understanding their behavior at the right moment.
Which worked as intended, going trough the movie's own motions that are basic structure but unexpectedly understanding everything at the right moment in a sequence least expected because the way everything was revealed, exposed and confronted. Slow, methodical and great movie.
Wow a movie which was very mature love story, really grounded in real life consequences and events that where a great catalyst for how closest it can be to a real life event. A really down to earth love and comforless story.
As simple a movie it is, that is what I love from it. A clear metaphor with wholesome message. Doing your best and giving it all to understand that even the smallest events in life are the ones that leads you to understand that life itself is not all about the prize, but the effort of living a life fulfilled with what matters most.
And that is what these kids in the movie represent, a whole faculty and system that even though push kids to do their best, which is not bad at all, but to what end, to what end it favors those who really have the will to exposed themselves without hindering them in process, being corporal or mentally. Great movie.
Topics such as this, are a great challenge to portrayed; more so when it explored two subjects as daring to come to terms with such a plot line. After seeing this movie I wondered and imagined how the director really struggled with these laborious themes in the way he handled them. This movie has a flawless and clear as day messages.
1) How raw events turned the protagonist so vengeful with a cold-hearted persona but, let's be honest, not all women that goes through this become their own "heroes" like that, if you can even think of them in that term, because the ones that end up committing heinous crimes as revenge, is not as novelists as the movie. Let alone the traumatic after effect in their lives.
2) More so in an environment that struggles to be fair and just in a world of hard conditioning. Where even the police work does come across to be that incompetent, one always wants to believe in just processes. It sure does have a clear statement that in the way most of the times the unfavorable accomplishments of law ends up being so detrimental.
The ending and what leads to it in moments before, was the greatest theatrical closing curtain to it all. Each character from the main lead, antagonist and supporting character were the clear cut and dry statements. Overall was a great experience to watch, and what experience; more so with performances that really were exceptional. Let alone with a movie that surely seemed to have a low budget and yet, manage to capture what was intended to say from start to finish with clearest intentions to the main theme. "어떤 살인" "What Kind of Murder".
Dearest is one of the movies, which are as gut wrenching and emotionally as realistically driven as it was about a true story. Even though the material is as sensitive of a topic as it can get. So it shows, the work put into this material ensues all over the screen with real raw care, performances and not only of those true events, but with actors and actresses that embodied the real life persona of the ones that did get involved. Equally how the direction and the script also exposed dilemmas of politics, economy and policies which were told greatly intertwine with the plot not taking from it, but rather, adding to a well exposure to the big dilemma China encounters himself and those around it.
As the director himself, Peter Ho Sun Chan intended and succeeded. Creating an atmosphere all throughout. When it comes to the script, It goes to show how prepared this material was. More so in the second half for how things might end. It sure was an experience, all due to how the movie's atmospheric tone shifted to go hand in hand with the first half and second half of the movie giving two perspectives of this awful and agonizing event. The ending was so raw, that the whole take away from watching the movie in conclusion made it have that firm posture of what life is for many people and these events and their final outcomes.
What a great experience and memorable story that felt as secluded as personal, with performances that encapsulated an engaging sentimentalism about such topic as delicated as it can get, when it circles around family.
Great and pretty fascinating movie with your typical political plot. Satisfactory driven engaging scripted and dramatic themes, with strong and well grounded characters, everything felt very compelling.
What a super movie.
I would never though I would end up liking so much this movie and thinking would end up being so unique, fun, thrilling and beyond heartwarming story surrounding a well made written plot that was as intriguing and personal with a great showcase of sacrifices, deceit, bad decision with an outstanding antagonist that was not only the catalyst of what happen to the main protagonist but the arching story of both where so phenomenal. Truly a movie that was thought out in its smallest details to convey the great experience it offered.
A very emotional and self sacrifice plot for what matters most, a family. This movie is quite simple but a very touching story of this small family and their relationships hindered by a past standing as a foothold to what plot reveals. Great movie, with great story.
This is quite the dulcet mother and daughter story, with a partial coming of age tale of the mother and her hardship development to care for her child. Which the movie has a great gut punch melancholic development that resonates more when you get to understand the IMF true story behind its development and how detrimental was for every citizen back then in the 90s. And oh boy what a fantastic subplot of events that carried the main plot to a deeper emotion.
That small detail right there, gave the plot an extra layer that resonates even more with both of these characters development and the reasoning of how even the movie ended, as to the "why’s" her mother sacrifices the time she had in the way it all happened, it is a fantastic movie for sure and the subplot of those events being the sole purpose of the main protagonists dilemmas made this movie an experience, at least for me.
This movie surely is something, having a crude satirical comedian plot, with direct serious undertones of how news anchors expose the supposed truth by profit and benefits that are directly tied to their supposed real coverage. The movie has a good delivery for sure, with a comedy that shifts to this serious undertones of what these plots entangled us with and that is a bitter pill to swallow. Given the fact that crimes are serious matter, all kinds of crime. And as such, the movie played with these two themes making the end feels more like a great theatrical commentary joke on how the truth his handled.
This movie has all the right tones with quirky and joyful moments regarding the life of this young adult and his father who had an ever lasting impact on both lifes. The movie has beautiful pastel and vibrant color pelettes expressing warmth and a youthful premise but not loosing the focused of what this movie is going to take us, which is a serious event that made this whole experience quite memorable and hard shift to a dramatic plot that surges as organic and well phased as it ends.
A sweet story with an everlasting affection. Really memorable with a delicacy and humbling touch, of these mutual feelings shared trough the chemistry that was shown with both characters from the moment of their encounter to their final moments.
Quite the dulcet story of this man falling in love with this simple local attractive woman, with a back story that resurges in to existence as their love just started to blossom. Here is when the tragic happens and diverge them from the honeymoon phase, while both began facing live changing experience that will test their love in a rather interesting take with believable expression given both situation. With an ending that was as heartfelt as their beginning.
This movie surely has a vivid presentation about social domestic dilemmas, vulnerabilities and mentally distraught characteristics with each character. Guiding the plot in a strong and heavyweight two hours that felt uncomfortably and all due to how raw the topics where exposed. A beautiful friendship ensued trough the hardship of both main leads sharing a unique bond that in two scenes gave it a much need it lively fresh air to this often somber story.
Time flies and memories are the ones who stay with us while we grow. In this movie, the theme of what was portrayed in a decade where China was phasing a social cultural change while in the middle of a war, in a world where a group of young friends share more than memories together, sharing live itself which was the link to a incredible bond stronger and purest than ever imagine.
A beautiful movie indeed, because, here is where the two hours allow us to explore such decade emphasizing a particular emotional trait, nostalgic familiarity. With an incredible and real group of characters that as time pass by you get to experience an emotional dilemma that this young group of artist went trough. More so, when the final scenes explored with us what this whole meant for them as the movie came to a close.
Quite the sad and romantic movie where the evident true love shines trough and endures the atrocities of what live and time took away but couldn’t break apart with such emotions.
Fascinating espionage movie about a group of spies who risked their lives to inform the world about what the Japanese empire was doing during the second sino-Japanese war. Which where in Pingfang district of Harbin where the movie and such events took place around 1937 – 1945 in the second World War. Delivering a slow phase experience, but still inviting narrative trough the lenses of these spies and their struggles to be undetected and reveal what the Japanese forces have done, which was what the unit 731 who where the responsible for all those killing to Chinese soldiers and citizens. As a movie itself it did deliver an undeniable enriched attention to detailed as how they traversed to finish such mission with beautiful scenarios to complement this long process of survival entangled with a soothing soundtrack to exhibit an experience that did got me focused the whole two hours.
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.
This movie says much than words could ever, with a story as simple as it comes, but with a gut punch feeling on how the structure of the movie developed the core meaning of relationships and friendships that are entangled together. Even though time past by, and changes, but those who share such stories and connections stay the same.
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.
When a group of kids involved themselves into the greatest heist in their lives, taking them into an unforgettable moment understanding what is worth the most despite their current live situation. This film was a blast and a great time spend with this charming kids and a story of family and what always matters most.
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.
