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Definitely a strong R rated movie. I have no problem with that when they are done as well as this one. I recommend you google the TIFF reviews if you are unsure if you want to watch this. I personally thought everyone did a great job and the direction and cinematography work were terrific. 8.5

Very different! All movies completely out of my ordinary groove and you made want to watch them! :) WHERE do you find the time?

Lovely. Very sweet story. The sad ending doesn't take away from the happiness and peace these soldiers attained at the end. In fact the one who lived probably has it the hardest.

oh and Jung Jae-Young

While I can say the acting was very good, the film itself was just trying too hard to be SO outre. I have to say I'm biased, because these types of indie or New Wave films are not my cup of tea, though I try to watch a few every year to TRY to educate myself and 'broaden my horizons', I guess.. For the most part I find them pretentious, with the main theme seeming to be the director's attempt to put out a film so 'out there' that people will say Wow, It's Cool because no one (but me) can understand it's "deeper meaning"! Well, there wasn't much deeper meaning for me in this one. Some messed up people who seem to gravitate towards one another, bump together for a bit doing and saying odd things, and then, just as suddenly, walk out of each others' lives. Whatever. There are directors and writers out there that can make these kinds of film that leave you confused, but wondering and thinking. I'm already forgetting this one because frankly I don't care! But, the characters in it will probably stay with me. This is the 4th one of Hong's movies I have watched. They are all universally depressing and filled with unhappy and disturbed characters, some of whom will stick with me for a long time afterwards like this one....even though I'm not crazy about the film itself. So on some level I guess it works.

I'm in love with Section Chief Oh! And you can add Kim Seung-Woo to this list too! and Bae Yong Jun, Kim Sung Soo, Lee Byung Hun, Ji Jin-Hee, Jung Woo Sung, Son Chang-Min, Jeon No-Min....Just a FEW more of my favorites....but I could go on and on! :)

Ab.so.lute.ly!!!!

I agree. Wholeheartedly!

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A very quiet, sweet, happy, sad, frustrating movie. As Usual GD has the cast picture WRONG! What is up with that GD?!! This is a movie about how NOT to have a relationship. It's about lack of communication... the fear of committing yourself, and allowing the pain of a breakup to close you off to love. Both of these people made mistakes in what was not said and what was said. Would her confessing when they were young have helped? Who knows. She never did so the first opportunity was missed...and she continued to miss them. He allowed a breakup to affect him so much that he closed his eyes and his heart to possibilities. When they finally came together that day, he made a horrible mistake...2 really. Walking out the door and not coming back and then saying Sorry with NO EXPLANATION of what that meant. Sorry for what? That he made a mistake and wished he hadn't been with her? That he felt he had used a friend for comfort and that she would be hurt and offended? That he was afraid he had damaged a lifelong friendship by crossing a line that she did not want him to cross? WHAT? Instead....nothing. No explanation. And again time lost, damage done. And then when he finally comes to his senses and goes to her to tell her and maybe finally explain, she stops him and says she 'knows' what he's going to say. But, did she really? Did she think he was just going to apologize for what he'd done. I think she suspected she had misunderstood within moments of when he left...but again another missed opportunity. With so little 'happening' you might think this movie would drag, but it flew by for me. Great performances. And a lovely story that really made you feel like you were there with them. I choose to believe the ending shows they have finally realized it's time to stop wasting time, so I call it a happy ending. Others may have a different interpretation. BTW..These 2 people fell in love...probably while making this movie, but certainly soon after, are now married and have a child.

Extremely painful movie to watch. Might as well take out a hammer and beat yourself to death, it will be no less painful than this. It goes from depressing to distressing, to heartbreaking. One man's backwards journey from choosing to escape his living hell of a life via suicide to his innocent beginnings. It's not a journey I'd recommend you taking unless you just want to watch another classic bleak Korean movie about the hopelessness of lives destroyed. I'm not saying it wasn't brilliantly done and it certainly covers a lot of Korean history of the period, giving an excellent snapshot view of many incidents and scenarios covered in far more detail in many other equally dismal movies about the time period. It's just exhausting. The only thing I can say about it at this point is thank God I can cross it off my must see list. Now to try to forget it! 9/10

yeah...no sympathy for him or the grandmother. But the scene where Young Nam asks Do Hee what she did at the scene of her grandmother's death and the look Do Hee gave her was pretty clear, to me anyway. And that Young Nam understood and, I think at that moment, knew she had to protect her. So much left unsaid or to be guessed at in this movie. But that is part of why I liked it too. 2 characters with so much left unknown about their pasts, their motivations and what will happen to them. I watch these movies and see all the abuse, neglect, alcoholism....the just plain miserable lives and it is so depressing. I just finished Crying Fist...now there is a movie to depress the life out of you. Yet. Bless the Korean filmmakers. Just when you think there is nothing you can take from the hopelessness of the lives you are watching, out of that darkness there leaps a spark of light and brightness and hope. Even if death comes at the end, there is the knowledge of lessons learned, of life continuing, and the eternal fight that those people have had to contend with for so many generations of difficulty. I am madly addicted to Korean film and dramas. I keep hoping they run out of good ones so I can take back my life, but every year more and better ones keep being made and here is me, sitting in front of my computer. They will find me dead here one day I swear.

In this case, (though I actually don't care :), it's the abuser's rights that are being denied. She was not raped, she set him up to make it look like she had been. So he will be charged with a crime that he did not commit...though he's guilty of plenty of other stuff so I GUESS it evens out! Still. If he was denying it, even a rural area police dept has access to rape kits. They have a hospital. She's a very disturbed young girl and as some of the reviews and synopses have alluded to, may not have been completely innocent herself. No one deserves to be beaten and cursed at like that, especially a child. But...she did kill her grandmother and framed her 'father'.... Whether it was the abuse that turned her that way, or, as the young cop tried to warn Young Nam, that she was kind of a monster inside already, I think they left that question on purpose for us to mull over. It's a question other movies and shows have tried to present also....are you born bad or created bad? Why do some overcome the horrors they are exposed to and others turn into abusers themselves?

Absolutely LOVED this. LMAO! Feeling so happy and light right now after watching this. It was so much fun. Son Ye Jin was gorgeous in this and MIn Ki hot as fire. I like when he does light comedy roles...he reminded me a lot of his character in Dal Ja in this one. His deadpan way of acting suits the dark quiet roles he can be so scary in, but when given well written comedy sarcasm, like this movie, he is quite good. And he OBVIOUSLY LOVES to kiss his leading ladies. Don't stop watching when the credits start rolling. There are a few more absolutely hysterical scenes that will have you on the floor! 9/10 for just making me happy and giving me a great day!

I'm definitely watching this one again.!

I'm betting because pickpocketing seems like such a 'light' crime compared to say ....murder for hire. But, when you see films that show how they purposely cripple and blind small children, then set up other little kids as their partners and force them to beg and pickpocket, your perspective on how 'light' a crime organized pickpocketing is, will change. The underworld/organized crime type of pickpocketing is indeed a pretty horrible world. Also, terribly frightening if you are in a foreign country and all your money, cards, and ID are stolen!

Been a long time since I watched Open City so I don't remember much about it...but I gave it an 8, so I must have liked it. I'm like you...loved Guns and Talks so added Kiss Me to The List. Have not heard of Eye...but Cha is in it so whatever...it's also now on The List!! Thanks!

well, laughing at myself now because I am in the midst of ep 24 and they are FINALLY talking and touching like normal people! I'm such a wishy washy person! :) I swore I was going to stop at 23 because 24 was missing from the site I was watching it on. I went searching because I watched the first couple minutes of 25 and there was this huge shift in their relationship and I was like wth happened? Did not realize viki was also subbing this!. I will probably stick it out and like you ff through some of it. Just because it's hard to dump something you've almost finished. Gotta say these episodes go really fast!

I wasn't crazy about Boss either though. I ff through a bunch of those episodes towards the end. I just didn't like the lead girl for some reason....she got on my nerves and that really ruins the drama if you can't invest in one of the leads! :( I'll stick to my Kdramas from now on.There is just way more LIFE in them for me. different tastes for everyone I guess. :)

This is my second try at a Chinese drama, Boss & me the first. I am on episode 23 at this writing and probably dropping it. I thought Korean dramas were tepid but these are unbelievably unrealistic. The guy in this is obviously a powerhouse of repressed passion. He has practically attacked her at least 3 times and kissed her very passionately, yet he marries her, they live together, and he doesn't sleep with her nor even touch her? What? Okay...I sorta can get it... I guess. Then they go on a honeymoon. They make a point of showing there is only one bedroom, he's planned it that way, and she gives him a smiling, goofy thumbs up like oh yeah, whatever, cool, let's do it???

Their first night sleeping together she has a cold and a scratch on her knee so that means they can't consummate the marriage? This is the MOST unrealistic and farcical mess of a drama. This couple is so far out of what any normal, in love couple would be, it borders on idiocy. There is not even an attempt at making this relationship halfway realistic. There is no touching and hugging and small kisses nor any of the other natural, loving caresses a newly in love couple would share, they don't even hold hands. More importantly, there are NO meaningful conversations going on. There are enormous unresolved issues between these 2, and they don't even make the smallest attempt to discuss with one another about even basic everyday issues, much less the huge gaping hole in their past!

That whole charade of her packing to go to Hong Kong and 'forgetting' to tell him she was going? So FAKE! Just a laughably bad set up by the writer/director so he could attack her again and then resolve nothing! This will be my last attempt at one of these. It's really too bad, because they are lovely actors to look at, both the male leads are gorgeous, the story is palatable (other than the ludicrous relationships), cinematography is lush and a feast for the eyes. I actually enjoy the secondary romance of the photog and model better. And I wish I had kept a stroke tally of how many times his 'sister' has said she is giving up on her unrequited love and then gone back to her sick obsession.

http://www.dramacool.com/mai-ratima-episode-1.html

It's on Gooddrama now. Great acting. Good movie. One HUGE GAPING plot hole! Even in Korea rape kits are SOP. 7.5 Big knock down for sloppy writing of that plot point. Made the entire end of the movie fall flat

Loved Man On Heels. You nailed it perfectly with your review. I saw Blood Rain and remember little about it. I may have to look into Ghost...because of the cast. Love KHN. First saw him in Monstar and was hooked. I believed then he would be 'something' and Misaeng & Angel Eyes only verified it for me. And I love KSE to death. Cuter than a bug's ear! The little devil. She could just torture SJR for the next few years and I'd stay happy watching.