- Oldboy
- YMS: Oldboy, since I didn’t want to watch Oldboy 2013, a 1:38hr video on both movies, praising one and ripping one apart, was much more entertaining. Summary of events for 2003:
- Intro: Given key information that makes sense. He’s drunk and out of shape, compared to the very first shot, we’re intrigued how the Dae-u gets there.
- Prison: Starting with a range of emotions displayed in a limited shot. Fear, anger, desperation. It shoes the evolution of Dae-su broken to revenge seeking.
- Reentry into society: Dae Su sees the first person in 15 years. Tells the suicide man his story, and walks out. The man falls. Dae-su smokes his first cigarette and tests his training. He’s given a phone and wallet and enters a sushi bar. He hears his captor for the first time and devours the octopus live. Mi-do puts her hand on his and he passes out.
- Finding the prison: Dae-su and Mi-do develop a relationship. But when she denies his existence in front of her online friend, he runs away from her losing trust. Upon the recording scene, the same orchestral music as Parasite’s Peach Scene comes on. Instead of interrogating the camera man, his torturing method is focused on revenge. The best combat fight scene in cinema for 3 minutes.
2. A Bittersweet Life
3. Mother
4. Memories of Murder
5. I Saw the Devil (2010)
Violent Catch Me if You Can. The buried scene.
6. Lady Vengeance
7. New World
8. Kung Fu Hustle
9. Fearless
10. Hero
Most beautiful film ever made, this guy explains it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpyxHBwXXkE
11. Ip Man
12. Shaolin Soccer
13. In the Mood for Love
14. A Chinese Odyssey
15. Train to Busan
16. Parasite
17. The Handmaiden
Top 5 foreign film. One of the engaging film I have seen for the entire almost-3-hour ride. Beautiful characters, set design, cinematography and smart storytelling.
18. The Hunt
First watched this after Casino Royale back in highschool. Hard watch, and unforgiving ending.
19. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
20. House of Flying Daggers
21. Battle Royal (2000)
Did not think that such an emotional & gruesome manga can translate on screen, but here it is.
22. Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
A visual feast in gold. Nostalgic and a modern pop icon. Although Jay and the plot lacks.
23. 3 Idiots (2009)
24. Dear Ex (2018)
Fast-paced, fun at many times, doodles all over. I liked the detailed set design of the mistresses house. Yet backdropped with heart wrenching present and past. As 3 loved ones surrounding a recently deceased man grapple collide, feud, and come to cooperation with one another. Great characters and one in that no one is the sole victim nor the enemy. The free-spirited mistress is the one who doesn’t fight and try to find such sides. Rather he fights a battle with himself handicapped with the struggles of grief.
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