Fun and touching! Watched for Park Sung Woong; his role his disappointingly one-dimensional (just smirking and displaying his vaunted charisma) until a slightly surprising humorous turn!The FL was so stoic yet endearing. Really liked how the backstory was revealed and the sympathetic portrayal of the main villains (and of course the self-discovering journey of the rakish ML)
Had an old fashioned swashbuckling creature feature feel to me with a nice mix of humor, sentimentality and action. The monster on the palace roof gave big King Kong vibes! Watched for Park Sung Woong, disappointed his character wasn’t more complex (but he is still great in whatever he does with his lethal hauteur)
It’s like Snow White with three dwarves but one of them is Park Sung Woong 😍 doing and saying sweet things I don’t think I have ever seen him do before
This was like a family TV cop show and old Hollywood buddy movie combined with a very old fashioned soundtrack (reminiscent of a silent movie score). Pleasant watch but nothing deep
Ugh. Everyone is stupid in this movie. I wonder if this is criticizing ignorance in all forms as bred by the isolation of island life and religion, and of course everyone stupidly keeping the truth from Seok Hwa, one of the most annoying characters I have ever seen. Her squeaky voice, wimpy ways and unbelievable naïveté (running around in a soaked nightgown to then press her entire womanly body against the pastor because she was scared of the rain?!) were pretty cringeworthy.
As a side note, the scene with the wet nightgown features a very interesting visualization of the pastor’s inner turmoil, very creative and weird, unlike any other part of the movie
Really beautiful and sad depiction of what happens when you can’t see your value. Her sense of self worth was shattered repeatedly until she viewed herself as an empty vessel. There are some really stunning images in the gaudy, blurred flashbacks that heighten the sense of a life as an object at a remove. A must watch!
Really liked how pop music, the trials of being a young woman and working through trauma worked in this supernatural (and emotional!) exorcism story. Amazing colors and the repeated Scott Walker-esque song “Don’t Sing Sad Songs” was cool but also such an apt illustration of what Mi Woo was fighting (the pressure to ignore the pain and put on a happy face)
OK, I just got back into reading more of ORV after watching this. The movie doesn’t get into all the charming quirky details that make the manhwa so enjoyable (e.g., constellations) but the general plot and characters weren’t really off the mark. It was OK and not as awful as suggested in the comments (though I do feel LMH was distractingly miscast and the CGI was pretty unpleasant at times, similar to the dogs in Project Silence)
Yet another story about innocence and faith thwarted by our civilized ways. But unlike “A Shaman’s Story” in this film the shaman is the villain and the visitor is the victim. Again, so sad! Especially since she was already painfully aware of the misery of her existence
Sad! I thought FL was so arresting yet so touching with her childlike faith in both her son and her beliefs as a shaman. It really conveyed how innocent she was, making the story all the sadder. Why did the son come back? 😭
Wow! What a trip. I can’t even compare it to anything else I have seen. It kind of sends you on a journey exploring ML’s life through the eyes of his family, friends and lovers, with wildly different perspectives and experiences. Shades of folk tale, fever dream, nonstop partying, ribaldry, meta narrative, and crammed with such diversity in scenes and characters it’s hard to remember everything that happened. Full of surprises and an interesting watch!
Wow, what a harsh movie. How did FL end up so overconfident in her judo skills to get beaten into submission by her judo teacher dad? It’s like he betrayed her twice. I did like seeing that the supposedly meek sister was just as powerful as the obnoxious FL.
Lots of creepy men in this, including FL’s husband (who was stupid as well)
Great cast and Go Soo gave such a touching performance! I liked how it explored the ethics of deciding whom to save, with a comforting resolution for ML. FL was all over the place; not sure why she was given such an awful unsympathetic situation in the first 15 minutes. The movie never really explained her hubris
As a side note, the scene with the wet nightgown features a very interesting visualization of the pastor’s inner turmoil, very creative and weird, unlike any other part of the movie
Sweet and not what is suggested by summaries I could find (Wikipedia is way off)
Lots of creepy men in this, including FL’s husband (who was stupid as well)