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I just watched Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance for the first time. It's probably my least favorite of the trilogy, but still very enjoyable. That ending, holy poo poo. I almost died laughing when the actual communist terrorists showed up. Also, when they found the family of the engineer and that little boy dead in the hovel, what was going on there? It didn't look like a murder suicide situation so did they all just die of fan death or something?
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ladron posted:They said the father fed them all pesticide, so yes, murder suicide Ah, thanks, I must have missed that line. You know, I think I would have liked the movie a lot more if it weren't for the sound direction. The constant, obtrusive background noises during otherwise silent scenes gave me a headache. I can see why they did it that way, and I think it was a really clever choice, but it also had me cringing through half the movie and made certain scenes feel interminable.
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I'm real excited for it. If there was one thing that book needed more of, it was sex and violence (zero sarcasm intended - it was a very boring, long book that consisted mostly of significant glances and angst, from my memory). It looks like the movie is set to deliver on that in spades. I have to wait for the late October release in the US though.
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The Handmaiden was SO beautiful. I loved all the outdoor scenes - seeing mainly movies set in cities, I never realized how lush South Korea can be. Makes me want to find a good nature doc about the country.Atlas Hugged posted:My only complaint is with the presentation of the twist. The film is almost entirely "unreliable perspective" except for the line where Sook-hee says Hideko has accepted Fujiwara's proposal on the condition that Sook-hee accompanies her to Japan. This turns it into a "deceptive narrator" and that bothers me because rather than the film maker pulling a fast one, it's the characters themselves misleading you through the second chapter. It seems like this would be easy to fix with slightly different editing or an added scene of dialog that was shown first with an out of context line and then later with the whole exchange, but oh well. It certainly doesn't ruin the movie. It just stood out to me as the one bit of storytelling that seemed off especially since there are visual queues included in the first part that hint at the fact that you aren't getting the whole story, notably the rope hanging from the tree when Sook-hee and Hideko flee. I agree with this. It was a small but annoying misstep. Relevant to this, the changes from the book were interesting - the first act and the first half of the second are pretty much identical, but it takes a big turn at the point you were talking about. Without getting into much detail, I thought the movie version was much simpler, and ultimately more empowering and cathartic. It was probably necessary due to time constraints anyway; it's already a long movie, and strictly following the book would have made it twice as long.
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