The Wailing is magnificent, but also confusing af, seemingly deliberately so. I'm not impressed by directors who intentionally contradict themselves and/or misdirect the audience with MacGuffins and red herrings that circle back around on themselves and among each other, clanging and banging and causing wild spectacles, but which are never resolved.
"Ah," you say, "but the director has freed you to interpret the film's many unanswered questions to your own satisfaction...or not at all." To which I reply, "Nah...the director is just too damn lazy to make their story make sense, so they're pawning the job off on me. I call BS."
I don't mind being confused and mystified, misdirected and tossed a red herring now and then or many times during a movie's run time; hell, I enjoy that. Nor do I object to open endings that leave me to ponder what might or might not come next. But I do object to wild incoherence dressed up as a "masterpiece" (The MDL commentariat's most hilariously overused word) of multi-layered storytelling.
The absurdly juvenile Halloween bit in the cave at the end is a surprising and spectacular example of stupid.
hii don't know if you know or saw but it's the story of haruna ai and she was actually there during the filming…
Just because the person whose story a movie/book/play is based on is there during filming does not automatically make the final product representative of their experience, of high quality, or of anything else, I don't care how many interviews they do.
It's entirely possible that her involvement hampered the storytelling rather than enhancing it.
That haruna ai was on-set during the production of this turkey and approved it, makes the final product MORE insulting to her trans audience, not less.
Never have so many of Korea's greatest actors pushed, pulled, and strained as one to produce a bigger turd.
This is worse than season 1, which I skipped ahead through after the first ep, then dropped entirely. I will continue skipping ahead to scenes where I see T.O.P.'s purple hair on screen, because he is the only reason to watch this bore-fest, which seems to be a rehash of everything I already skipped through in S1.
Given the hype and ratings, this show's success is a horrifying commentary on the state of the worldwide viewing audience.
Finally got around to watching this. I don't think it's possible to express how underwhelmed I am, particularly given the multi-year hype and smash ratings. Some great actors in service to an abundantly lame story. Or maybe it's the execution that sucks. I am not familiar with the source material, so can't say. The metaphors/allegory are so on the nose as to be painful.
I made it through all of episode 1, then started skipping ahead depending on what it looked like might be going on, then ditched the remaining episodes completely.
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1/10
The Wailing is magnificent, but also confusing af, seemingly deliberately so.
I'm not impressed by directors who intentionally contradict themselves and/or misdirect the audience with MacGuffins and red herrings that circle back around on themselves and among each other, clanging and banging and causing wild spectacles, but which are never resolved.
"Ah," you say, "but the director has freed you to interpret the film's many unanswered questions to your own satisfaction...or not at all." To which I reply, "Nah...the director is just too damn lazy to make their story make sense, so they're pawning the job off on me. I call BS."
I don't mind being confused and mystified, misdirected and tossed a red herring now and then or many times during a movie's run time; hell, I enjoy that. Nor do I object to open endings that leave me to ponder what might or might not come next. But I do object to wild incoherence dressed up as a "masterpiece" (The MDL commentariat's most hilariously overused word) of multi-layered storytelling.
The absurdly juvenile Halloween bit in the cave at the end is a surprising and spectacular example of stupid.
6.5/10
It's entirely possible that her involvement hampered the storytelling rather than enhancing it.
That haruna ai was on-set during the production of this turkey and approved it, makes the final product MORE insulting to her trans audience, not less.
I stand by everything I wrote above.
Have you ever heard of special effects and the magic of make-believe?
For me, this is a boring cringe-fest, except for T.O.P., whose character is so over-the-top he at least makes me laugh a few times.
Or is it just that you're a lame bigot?
This is worse than season 1, which I skipped ahead through after the first ep, then dropped entirely.
I will continue skipping ahead to scenes where I see T.O.P.'s purple hair on screen, because he is the only reason to watch this bore-fest, which seems to be a rehash of everything I already skipped through in S1.
Given the hype and ratings, this show's success is a horrifying commentary on the state of the worldwide viewing audience.
Horrendously stinky.
1/10
I don't think it's possible to express how underwhelmed I am, particularly given the multi-year hype and smash ratings.
Some great actors in service to an abundantly lame story.
Or maybe it's the execution that sucks. I am not familiar with the source material, so can't say.
The metaphors/allegory are so on the nose as to be painful.
I made it through all of episode 1, then started skipping ahead depending on what it looked like might be going on, then ditched the remaining episodes completely.
Pretty bad.
3/10
https://tubitv.com/movies/100026283/good-person