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I just watched Mother last night, and I'm going to watch The Host later tonight. This is what I posted about Mother in another thread. Don't hover of the spoilers if you have not seen it. escape artist posted:I just finished Madeo by Bong Joon-ho and wow. It started off a little slow, but once it picked up, I was hooked. It was beautifully shot, well-acted (Kim Hye-ja was spectacular) and the story was riveting. A Korean neo-noir. You fully expect the mother to exonerate him of his crime, and then ultimately find out he did do the crime in the first place. And she ends up killing a witness to cover it up. Then he's exonerated and the wrong man goes to jail. And at dinner he basically admits to his mother why he placed the body in the position he did. These developments blind-sided me.
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qbert posted:Have you seen Memories of Murder? I still consider that his best film. I feel like Fincher's Zodiac was heavily influenced by it. There's also a lot of political and cultural subtext going on that you'd probably have to read up on after seeing the film, but once I did gave me an even deeper appreciation of what he achieved. Yeah, that was the first movie of his I saw. It's great (and I know all about the true story behind it), but I thought Mother was even better. I first saw it when I was asking for "good serial killer movies" and someone said I should watch Zodiac and Memories of Murder as companion pieces.
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Feb 11, 2013 03:53
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The Host was so much fun. Funny, thrilling, heart-wrenching. I don't know how I feel about the fact that there's going to be a sequel, though.
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Feb 11, 2013 11:48
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I feel like you should make another thread for films from China and Hong Kong, and another thread for films from Japan. Just my opinion. I feel like SK films are distinct from other Asian films, and there are plenty of them for us to discuss for a long, long time.
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Feb 13, 2013 14:57
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