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What a great dark comedy. I got lost about a couple of plot points, but nothing that spoiled the movie for me. I probably watch it again anyway.
I laughed out loud a number of times. Great slapstick and comedic acting all-round. Lots of great visual laughs, and the physical fight scenes between the two MLs were hysterically funny. Koreans do the best fight scenes, serious or comedic, doesn't matter.
I felt badly the whole time about you-know-who, and I admire that young actor too, so I'm glad that the ending gave a nod of respect/acknowledgement in that direction, and showed us the ML wasn't a complete psychopath with no scruples whatsoever.

Well-done. 8.5/10

Your first paragraph is a huge spoiler which I didn't appreciate seeing before I started the film.. Please take care of that.

This comment is further evidence of your stupidity.

You are too stupid to waste my time on.

Really bad.

Even my Joo Jin Mo can't save this piece of shit. Wow. Just terrible.

I'm going to assume you're either bored and stirring up shit for kicks or you're just stupid. You called me a "weirdo." So "bitch" seems like a fair reply. oooooh...a "nihilist." That's very original of you. And gosh, you're also the first person to realize we all are going to die. Even more exciting is that never before in world history has anyone, anywhere questioned whether or not life has any meaning. lol

Pathetic.

Can't believe this Kim Ki Duk dude is considered some kind of art-house writer/director genius. This is the second movie in as many nights of his that I've watched, and both are crap.
The writing/plotting is ridiculous.
The characters are stereotypes/caricatures and half of their actions make no sense.
I am embarrassed for the actress pretending to act like she's lost her mind. She comes off as being some lazy writer's idea of what "crazy" people act like, not an actual crazy person. Even so, she easily strips soldiers of their weapons and other gear just by grabbing it. God forbid these guys should run into an actual spy. As far as her actions before she went nuts, as soon as she goaded and dared her BF to come onto the "cross and die" boundary, I lost any sympathy for either one of them.
The ML was obviously just about nuts from the very beginning. Then when you-know-what happens, he's suddenly a guilt-ridden pacifist, easily beaten by the girl's brother and friends.
The stereotypical, hysterical, brereaved Korean mom made an appearance of course. Never mind her son was boffing this chick on a beach clearly marked as dangerous and warning trespassers will be shot.
And on and on...last night I watched "Red Family," but I think it was even more ridiculous than this film. Again, can't believe this director/writer is thought of highly in Korea. I know he passed from Covid but that doesn't excuse his terrible film-making.

ugh. dropping after 40 minutes.

4.5/10

Oh piss off, bitch. YOU need to reread what I wrote as you don't seem to have comprehended it. The world is a cruel place sometimes...it is also a good place sometimes...and it is mostly somewhere between those two extremes all of the time. "...nature is red in tooth and claw!!" lol "Humans are horrible..." hahaha...get over yourself. Sometimes they are horrible and sometimes they are good and all of the time they are somewhere in between. "Altruism is fading away..." omg, you are amazingly into yourself. Are you an amateur philosopher with a twisted panties over something that happened in your own life? When was this golden age during which altruism ruled?

Wow...talk about "weirdos."

Every beautiful woman everywhere goes through this every day. Yes, sure. Some women, somewhere go through this and the men involved are psycho pigs who should be dealt with harshly. "the world is dirty af..." Do you honestly believe no woman anywhere has a mostly pleasant, rewarding life in this world? Or are you bitter about something that happened to you so you are projecting it onto everyone?

Am I the only person who thinks this is one of the strangest/weirdest/most bizarre films ever made? lol I mean, I got whiplash just sitting still in my chair from all the violent 180 degree turns in tone and quality and genre. Slap-stick comedy? Violent thriller? Soap-opera? Television drama? Surrealist art-house piece? All that, more and then some...seriously, wtf? Sometimes it felt like a Saturday Night Live parody and others a dead-serious anti-communist propaganda film. And I don't think this was on purpose...wow, what a trip.

There was some really excellent acting in places as well, so I can't even trash it in that respect. lol, one of a kind in a million for sure. I say give it a shot, you can always drop it or do what I did, which is to keep watching and say "wtf?" over and over for 90 minutes or so. I will not forget this oddball thing, that is for sure.

Jung Woo is major hotness and a good actor...so strange to watch him give his dramatic all to such a weird story. I actually liked all four actors playing North Koreans very much; all talented. And the grandmother is just lovely.

I don't know...I'm American. Maybe you have to be Korean to "get" this. I did cry at the end, even as I thought how silly and ridiculous what I was hearing and seeing was. Oh well.

7/10 for weirdness. Otherwise I'd give it a 5.

I like this movie quite a lot. Yes, it was fairly slow-paced, but if all you want is action-thrillers, you shouldn't pull up a seat to watch this in the first place. I was never the least bit bored.

I want to thank the director for the beautiful, gratuitous, long camera pans of Ayano Go waking up in his undies that started the film off right. :D Seriously though, it's amazing when you think of it, how often we see that sort of shot of the female form in films, but rarely the male. And that applies to Hollywood as well as Asian flicks. Late in life I'm coming to underestand how almost the entire "civilized" world shows us its art from a straight male perspective.

As much as I adore Suda, maybe it is true that all of his characters are variations of one basic character that he does. Even if it IS true, I still love watching him onscreen. He is a magical sprite and his energy is unmistakably vital to any movie he is in. It was fun to see him in a supporting role. The one exception to this point about Suda, at least in my experience so far, is his character is Teichi's World. Of course you know it's Suda, but the dude in that wonderful film is extraordinarily original and on a different plane than most of his other characterizations.

I love a lot of Japanese and Korean actors, but seriously, what would these guys do without cigarettes to light up, suck in and on, blow out the side of their mouths, blow out through their nose, french-inhale, allow to dangle on the tips of their lips as they hold their heads to the side while squinting to glare at someone menacingly through the smoke and just generally rely on to do busy-work with their hands? It's gotten annoying, the way so many of these guys use cigs as an actor's crutch. Think of all the times they light up and smoke...would they be able to do a character through an entire film cig-free? Would they be lost, not knowing to do with their hands? Plus, they are all going to drop dead of cancer and emphysema at young ages, just from doing their jobs. Oy.

A couple of misgivings here:
Why did the sister, the brother or the friend from the mountains never simply tell the douchebag boss-man to back the fuck off NOW or they were going straight to his wifey and kiddies with info regarding what he'd been up to with the sister over time? It's such an easy fix to several problems, even the last one, involving a potential prosecution and charges being pressed or dropped.

Why does no one in these films worry about STDs, especially when your GF is you know, a working girl?

I remain uncertain as to how to react to the sister/daughter's very "special" medical treatment for her brain-damaged father, and I don't know what I think of the BF's reaction either. I think I would have been more skeeved out by it, at least initially, than he was.

Frankly, I think the sister had the right idea about how to deal with the dad situation near the end, and I was kind of pissed that the BF took it upon himself to make the choice he did FOR her when it wasn't his to make. Is he going to stick around there and change dad's diapers while everyone else takes a break?

No one ever answers me, but do Japanese and Korean people in general scream at each other this much in real life like they do in movies?

OK, that's it. Not the greatest movie of all time, but a good one and I'm glad I saw it.

8/10

Finished #13. Cried five or six times. The writers are so good at sneaking up on you with the plotting and surprises. Sometimes things happen awfully quickly and then are resolved just as quickly, but it does help that they indicate a passage time on the screen sometimes. Kraist in the hospital was about the end of me. So many really, really fine actors in one show is remarkable.

Looney is my favorite. :)

Thanks to a commenter below I found this on Youtube and just finished watching. I don't know how to feel about this flick, but I know that the last quarter of it and the ending left me entirely unmoved. And I'm a person who cries at movies pretty easily.

JJM's acting was, as usual, flawless. I find him captivating onscreen. I do think the director should have cast a younger actor as the high school-age character. JJM at this stage of his career I found hard to buy as a teenager. But that's not JJM's fault and as soon as we moved on from HS, he was perfection. The young actress is beautiful but kind of a one-note performer in my opinion. I got tired very quickly of her pouty-face/sad expression, which is about all I saw.

The problem is the story itself. First of all, they never really even knew each other or spent enough time together to develop the feelings the script wants us to believe in. After what he did for her and how she claimed to feel about him, as a result of which he went to the big house, I don't care who told her to do what, the fact that she blew him off completely caused me to lose any sympathy or empathy for her character. So when she turned up later as you-know-what, I thought "that figures..."

As much as I have come to love Asian cinema, I am totally over the trope, seen so often in the BL genre, which calls for a character to decide that the best way to make up for hurting someone you care about is to hurt them even more under the pretense of not hurting them more...or something. It's just weak as hell and I don't buy it. So when we got to that point I REALLY didn't like or care about her at all. So to see him lose everything and then go the route he did at the end, over HER, had zero effect on me.

The gentleman who played the big boss and her sugar daddy, was really excellent. It's the first time I think I've seen a Yakuza-type boss-man convincingly portrayed as having a heart and actually caring about some of the people who work for him. It was nice to see this stock character played as a genuine, specific, individual and not a stereotype.

I give JJM, one of the best Korean actors and a personal favorite, a 9/10 for his performance here, but the movie as a whole gets a 6.5/10. Lousy, unconvincing story.

Had I known Joo Jin Mo, the same actor who blew me out of my seat in "A Frozen Flower," was in this, I would have sought it out a lot sooner. But the only place online I can find it is Dailymotion and as badly as I want to watch this, they are now running TWO 30-second ads about every 7 or 8 minutes plus drop-downs in-between. I know they have to make $$$, but it's too much for me. Chops the movie up so much that there is absolutely no flow to it; as soon as I get in the groove with what's going on WHAM! another fucking commercial.

So I'll have to wait to see JJM kick ass in what looks to be a good film, at a later date. If anyone sees this comment and has a link, please share. Thanks.

I can't believe it was just a year after this that JJM filmed AFF. From fairly-convincing high school judo thug to Joseon King in one year. He is a remarkable actor.

Why thank you, Elektra. I appreciate that. :)

Who is "super upset?"

See? You can't stand that one person out of thousands isn't sniffing of this show like you are. It's truly remarkable. Also, I haven't dropped in here in weeks, but did so today on a whim just to see how the madness was going...and was rewarded with loads of comically breathless comments in the hundreds that had piled like manure since last I was here.

All the SJWs and the sex-phobics and the puritanical usual suspects are here ofcourse, but what I really don't get is that no one cares about the terrible acting/directing/cliches/tropes/bad sets/bad fight scenes/ or anything else that makes this show so lousy. It won't be me, but someone should really write a lengthy article about how and why such a joke of a show evolved such a devoted fan base.

I dare you to NOT reply. See if you can just ignore my one comment out of the trillions here.

Hey deetsy, as you recall, I stated my opinions of this show and yes, made lots of fun of others' views of it because it is crap and you are all nuts. I didn't have to TRY to pick an argument. I said what I thought and was immediately attacked for it. The show is awful and there is something wrong with people who think it's a masterpiece. Like I said though, it's good you're all in one place where you can slobber over each other and this horrible series without bothering sane people.

So no, I won't spare you my bullshit. It's as worthy as yours.

OMG. It is so bizarre to read someone planning to spend hundreds of hours of their time on such a project, based on this silly little show. Could you please clue me in on the meaning of the word "canon" as you use it here? I know what the word means in general, but since there has only been one BB series so far (thank god) how can there be a "canon?" It's hilarious that you write as though this is worthy of inclusion in the "canon" of great literature through the centuries. Will the novel(s) you plan to write include ANY conflicts/problems/human behavior at all, or be one hundred percent rainbows and puppies?