Trying too hard
It felt like the movie was trying too hard to be deep . When there arent any explicit scenes on the screen that take up a majority of the attention, all we get is monotonous and dull dialogue that points to some overarching metaphor that they try to pull in. Its okay to put out a purely trashy naughty film, but nope gotta also sprinkle in some artsy meaning in to the film...I guess? Starting from that odd dialogue when Myeong Seon meets Gi Jun for the first time and the discussion oddly goes to hands. What did you notice about me? My hands? You studied my hands? Then Myeong Seon compares Gi Jun's hands to that painting from da Vinci. And then all the hyperfixation of hands begins. Camera angles at Gi Jun's hands getting undressed and dressed. Hands clenching and unclenching in nervousness. He uses his hands nervously to cover his nakedness but Myeong Seon constantly tells him to put his hands away repetitively during the photoshoot. When Myeong Seon is on top of him to get a head shot of Gi Jun's face, he flicks his hand away from the shot. Myeong Seon had mentioned previously that he doesnt heavily edit his photos. It's supposed to be natural. But all we are seeing is dictated postures. Towards the end of the movie they hit you over the head with a close up of Mona Lisa's hands, the infamous painting he mentioned at the start. You can know a lot about a person from the hands. Gi Jun's hands is soft like the painting he says. But Myeong Seon chooses to ignore it and flicks it away and that's how he treats their affair. He does not care if Gi Jun is already in a relationship with someone else. He is aloof and mean and he knows it and purposefully so. He chooses to keep a distance and tries not to get too involved. At the end of the movie when he tries to look for a photo of Gi Jun and finds it tucked away in a book, you can tell it is heavily edited. Blemishes are erased. It isnt natural but posed. When Myeong meets Gi Jun's look-alike, Jung Hyun, you can tell he has regrets now that the roles are reversed. This man looks like Gi Jun but he is strong in personality and demeanor. He is not soft. The professional camera isnt used on this look-alike. You see Myeong Seon using a 35mm film camera when he unexpectedly runs into a sleeping Jung Hyun in the woods taking candor shots of the "fake" Gi Jun. Myeong Seon is also shown using a poloraid to get raw and imperfect instant photos of Jung Hyun passed out on their bed. When he gets intimate with Jung Hyun, it ocassionally shifts the camera to first person pov which hadnt happen before with Gi Jun when he was trying so hard to keep space and distance as photographer and subject. Perspective has changed as Myeong Seon is trying to reclaim those feelings. Then the mystery continues: Is Gi Jun and Jung Hyung the same person? Overall, it didnt matter to me cause I didnt care to know. All this got clouded by boring dialogue with not much effort with character development and a weak plot.Was this review helpful to you?
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Um? Blurred Porno
You know… I didn’t expect to watch a porno that had the private parts blurred. Didn’t expect to watch an actual porno. I wasn’t sure what was happening mostly because I skipped through it for their parts but probably why I was so confused. Wasn’t sure if I was watching a movie or a porno. I was very confused though.Where I watched, it gave me like 15 dialog from each character in a whole paragraph so I wasn’t sure who was talking.
So did he not like the dude he was having funky time with? What was with the screaming? And then the random running with a limp and bruised face. I didn’t see any beat up scene.
My mouth was gaped the entire time because like I said, I didn’t expect to watch a porno. They had to have had their parts enter because they are completely nude touching very close to each other.
The kissing was hot lol
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EU ENTENDI E NÃO ENTENDI AO MESMO TEMPO
O principal ponto para a minha nota não ter sido tão alta é a legenda, a pessoa que traduziu com certeza fez muita confusão e todas as frases eram confusas e sem sentido, tinha horas que eu nem sabia mais do que estavam falando e isso acabou afetando toda a minha experiência e entendimento do filme.A premissa era interessante, as cenas sexuais foram muito bem coreografadas e o desejo estava ali. Foi excelente.
A trilha sonora é praticamente inexistente e eu gosto disso pois traz crueza para a história, mas uma cena ou outra pedia algum tipo de estímulo sonoro e não teve.
A edição e produção deixou a desejar e junto a legenda estranha fizeram uma bagunça na minha cabeça.
Esse é um bom filme mas ao mesmo tempo não é nada demais, isso é mais como um compilado de cenas do que uma história propriamente dita, mas vale a experiência.
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Double Exposure (이중노출) ส่วนตัวให้ 7.5
จริง ๆ รอติดตามเรื่อง Double Exposure (이중노출) มานานมาก เห็นหลายคนพูดถึงในทางที่ดี พอรู้ว่าเอามาลงใน GagaOOLala พร้อมซับไทยก็ไม่รอช้า บอกตรง ๆ ว่าดูแล้วประทับใจมากส่วนตัวชอบงานแสดงของนักแสดงเรื่องนี้มาก ทุกคนเล่นได้เป็นธรรมชาติ ไม่แข็ง ไม่รู้สึกฝืนอารมณ์ การถ่ายทอดความรู้สึกทำได้ดี ทำให้คนดูอินไปกับตัวละครได้ง่าย
การดำเนินเรื่องถือว่าค่อนข้างดี เล่าเรื่องไปเรื่อย ๆ แต่ไม่น่าเบื่อ มีจังหวะให้คิดและตีความ โดยเฉพาะประเด็นความสัมพันธ์และอารมณ์ภายในของตัวละครที่ค่อย ๆ เปิดเผยออกมา
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Soft porn
As legendas péssimas da tradução inglês para português atrapalham muito o entendimento da história, que alias é pouca rs, de 1hora e 21 minutos de drama há pouquíssimos diálogos, focando mais no soft porn entre os atores principais e o final realmente fica extremamente confuso para descobrirmos se eram ou não as mesmas pessoas, porque há momentos quando o personagem Myeong Seon se relaciona é possível ver que ele não transmite o desejo em si e em outros há muito. O que eu entendi é que quando ele era o ativo parecia não gostar muito, mas quando ele estava sendo o passivo, a experiência era melhor, mas posso ter entendido tudo errado. E também percebi que há cenas em que teoricamente é o Jeong Hyeon, ele usa um colar com chave e em outros momentos não, me deixando dúvida se seria o Gi Jun ou se era mais uma questão de vestimenta no momento, porque na primeira relação pós-volta no estúdio o Jeong Hyeon não tinha este colar.Enfim, não vale a pena não, talvez se for relançado com uma tradução mais coerente e uma edição um pouco mais coesa possa nos dar a devida resposta, mas acredito que o intuito nem fosse esse de fato kkkk
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