Actually the kill doesn't matter because from the story, how they build up the emotion was enough for make this film a bloody reunion but they take somekind like serial killer path, kinda disappointing. It's okay if they stay on their path, even though it will be predictable but it's still gonna be satisfying but then they insert a twist, sure it a little bit shocked me but then I felt the emotions that were built up very good, now feel useless.
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Time to get married...
Actually I was thinking in the first 10-minutes that I'm not gonna enjoy this because it's a black & white film. But when dialogue starts, this film like give me a rope that makes me slowly enjoy the film.The dialogue feels like a conversations between ordinary people in real life, and I like it. And the plot is great, pretty well organized, even though it was laid out slowly.
I like Chishu Ryu & Setsuko Hara chemistry as Father & Daughter, I can feel the emotion when the marriage topic starts to be cooked, Noriko's unwillingness to get married and leave her father, I understand why she's like that. And then Somiya go home after sent Noriko to wedding and sit in solitude, enough to make my heart tremble.
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I think only Nogizaka46 fans who's gonna enjoy it to the fullest.
The plot is like anime called "Haikyuu" where a new students in a high school join an extracurricular but instead of volleyball, in this film was Naginata (a kind of ancient martial arts reserved for women) and they tried to get into the inter-high competition.From the story I like it but not that good, and there's a lot of Naginata Battle but the execution feels lacking and can't make me feel the thrilled.
And lastly the very good things about this film was there's a lot of heartwarming scene, when they're smile, cry, or anything, it's make my heart warm, and I truly love that.
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Parents love... you guys gonna cry when you watch this Yoshitaro Nomura film's.
The film tells the story of a husband and wife who has a daughter, and their daughter is exposed to tetanus.I thought this film would be a monster body horror film like Tetsuo but it wasn't. Although there is still horror, the drama is still thicker in this film. But I could say that the drama and horror genres were merged into one because the scenes that could be considered horror still didn't stay away from drama and didn't make the film scary.
Apart from the film that didn't meet my initial expectations, it turned out to be one of my best film viewing experiences this year. It was like found a gem. Truly a typical film I love, a drama full of emotions that could bring tears to my eyes and I'll explain later below.
What is certain is that this film feels realistic and relatable, at the beginning when Masako bit her tongue, the reactions from her father and mother really matched what parents would do in the real world.
Maybe the horror in this film tends to be more psychological, like the moment when the film starts to get into the 2nd act, Masako doesn't recover and is getting longer in the hospital, moreover, we will often be shown the moment when Masako had convulsions and as time went by; like her parents, I also getting tired and her parents psychologically began to slowly disturbed.
With the longer Masako was treated, making the hope to see her recover becoming more and more blurry, to the point that Masako's parents cried because they were mentally tired, but I was touched, they were good parents and still chose to keep taking care of Masako, standing by her side, guarding the shrinking hope.
And when the film began to reach its ending without realizing it, my tears flowed because I was touched and satisfied with the result of Masako's parents' patience in facing the tragedy that befell them.
Overall, this a masterpiece.
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I think this film was just too long or probably should changed the order of the scenes.I love how these bullies are nurtured for us to hate to the point that what they do exceeds the limit, so when our heroine who I believe in with everything that has been taken, really wants to kill the bullies, when she did it, it felt so satisfying. To be honest, when Nozaki killed Kuga it felt like it was nearing the end but I saw that the duration had not yet reached half.
Then later Nozaki kills again but there is a gap that makes the initial build up not feel effective anymore, plus later it will include an element of romance which in my opinion is very unimportant.
It's a shame, I think if only it's focusing on Nozaki taking revenge on her bullies is more than enough, there's no need for love between these characters that makes everything feel like the bridge is collapsing at the end. Had the order been changed maybe it could have been better.
Although implicitly, making this film only covers not many characters who are represent every kind of person involved in every case of bullying in schools is quite good idea; There are those who are bullied, the bully, former victims of bullying, students who stand up for the victims, neutral students, teachers who are not good at handling bullies, messed up families behind the bullies, etc. but I don't really care about it anymore since this film getting mixed up and draggy.
Oh yeah, there's a two twist near the actual end, at this point I can only sigh and almost crying inside because I don't think this film need it.
Potentially very good but why why why?!!!
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Basically, this is about a landlord who spies on his tenants and takes notes about their routines, but one of his tenants, a girl, gives him an idea about breaking the deadlock in life; the landlord takes her words to heart and decides to shatter his tenants' routine lives.
The way the landlord did it and how it really had a massive impact on his tenants was so miraculous. He set up the tenants one by one before eventually linking them all together in a madness. It's involved (an almost or is it?) incest, unfaithfulness, lust, and superpowers; that's all, if I'm not mistaken. The landlord sabotaged just a little thing in them tenants disciplines lives, leading to such a doomed fate but entertaining in my eyes.
Overall, I find the atmosphere exciting, like in crime films, but there are moments when this film could feel frightening, like when we are introduced to the mysterious tenant.
This film looked so beautiful; the set, the lighting, the shot, the effect, etc. were just impressive.
The acting, which all the actors did well without exception, is pretty much one of the strongest reason why this film could be engaging and enjoyable.
There's still more this film had, the twist that whether it's there or not wouldn't be a problem, but I like that this film had it. The twist made this film go full circle imo, and gave the landlord proper closure to his story, which ended with satisfaction.
That's all I think. Thanks.
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This film lived up to my expectations, it's wellcrafted, got some pretty dang good jumpscare that i haven't seen in ages that makes me goes shriek in the middle of the night, I love how this film keeps on giving me goosebumps and also maintains its tension throughout the film.
This film really takes advantage of what the main character has and executes it properly to spread terror, to be honest there are many films that feature ghosts that haunt but not to the point of making goosebumps or scary as in this film, where the character Mun is said to have been blind since she was a baby and only got to see when she was an adult after she got a corneal donor, but from someone who can see ghosts (how unlucky she is), Throughout the film we see her suffering with her eyes at being able to see ghosts where it affects her psychologically, where the ending feels acceptable.
Despite how good this film was to me overall,I really only like the first and second act, where there are many memorable moments of horror from the grim reaper to the moment in the elevator and there is still a sense of Hong Kong. The third act turned out to be like a thai horror film, the vibe, and even the cinematography changed. The changes weren't really harmful, it was just that the transition was a bit of a drag for me.
Overall, one the scariest asian horror film.
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60's Parasite
The first Kurosawa film that I finished, last year I tasted Rashomon but it was only willing to watch it until the opening.In the first half, I think it will be just a normal kidnapping drama, rather boring and a bit annoyed by his wife and his driver, Gondo, there is something wrong because the money ends up not being used to buy shares (somehow annoyed).
After finding the driver, this film starts to feel exciting, hunting the kidnapper while diving to the slum side makes you understand the kidnapper's feelings too, especially while looking at Gondo's house from the slum, he wants to bomb his house.
I really like it when the police hold a meeting, I feel like I'm putting up a puzzle, it's fun.
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The story itself, I think it's simply about a woman who kill to lower property prices to buy her Dream Home, other than that, if you look at the flashback, maybe because it was part of her wish since childhood or to fulfill a promise to her mother to buy a flat, but i'm still confused about her big urge to achieve it, is it because the canceled contract? i don't know.
This film has funny moments too, only briefly but "burst on to his face" made me laugh out loud.
i don't know what to type anymore. That's all. Thanks
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But...
They put a twist in the middle of the film, and I don't want to blame it at first for breaking the great momentum, but I did try to be optimistic. With the film becoming bad after that twist in this second half, I think I need to blame it; they just simply told the story I don't want to follow, even though it's still about the victim. Also, this second half looks like those generic trash horror films.
I really want to curse this freakin' film. Just damn, it's very disappointing.
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Probably, this film could be something like eat the rich but it ends up flimsy.
As a revenge film, it feels weird. I feel like the antagonist is anxious throughout the film about Amelie's best friend died while doing anal with him, but it seems forgotten by Amelie but still affects her in a way, with all the things going on in her life that she sees a guy as her oasis, then the guy become the reason she need to get revenge while the antagonist still thinking about what he did, that's what's in my thoughts tho.
There's bunch of flashback between Amelie and her father, quite touching but it seems like it just for setting up the ending, which is quite good.
That's all I think. Thanks.
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"You don't sing, you die. Sing off-key, you die. Score lower than 80, you die."
A ghost who's gonna kill you if you bad at singing? damn.Super hilarious; the comedy is very Thai. Just reading the premise made me chuckle.
At the beginning, there are character introductions. I thought it was going to be dull and plain, but they filled it with jokes that almost always hit me. There is talk about Mae-nak, Buppah, which was familiar to me; the parody of Lights Out short film ver. was quite funny.
When the night comes, Premika goes out to strike and hands her mic to her victims. I like it as it's usually always funny, and most importantly: the songs are such a bop. My favorite was the drunk guy at dinner; he sang a song from a Thai band called The Innocent (I looked it up), and the song title is ฝากรัก / Fahk Ruk (Entrusting My Love); it was so dreamy, interspersed with footage of the man meeting his wife in the past and fell in love.
When the people who were challenged by Premika failed, they died with bad CGI, but I can forgive it because the film is funny and I enjoyed it.
When I thought I was done, this film gave me more: Premika's ghost backstory, told through a song, titled ไถ่เธอคืนมา / Tai Tur Keun Mah (Buy You Back) (Orig. Singer: Pongsit Kumpee), and it was unexpectedly touching, heartwrenching; my eyes were teary.
I'm really satisfied with this film. Thanks.
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About the scare, I don't think it's creepy, not because for the cheap jumpscare but this film addicted to CGI, the ghost in CGI was just not it, even though the use of CGI gave an opportunity to make the death scenes to be kind of creative, but overall the CGI doesn't look good.
The twist... I almost got it right, it is what I imagined, but they kinda twisted it, and I didn't expect that. I knew the man is the murderer afterall, there's also hypnotize thing I consider but then... SHE CAN DO THAT?!!
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This series got the atmosphere right, the build up towards scary moment is quite great, but when it needs a hard punch to make those moment impactful and slaps, it just so weak. Those were mostly covered up by the story that absolutely intriguing; in fact, that's what kept me watching until the final episode, even though the way it feels like Interstellar kinda weird to me.
This series also looks quite beautiful, the shots, the lighting, etc. put to good use to help strengthen the atmosphere and build up.
This series ends but leaves a wedge in my heart.
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In the end, I still enjoyed it and I love what I see in terms of visual aesthetic.
Do I need to read manga tho?
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