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Loved this movie!

Just loved this movie so much. I saw the Anime first and spotted a short video letting me know the movie existed - the search was on until I found it. I have already watched it several times and have shared it with so many others.

Love the leads. When he first meets Miyo and tests to see if she is "...just another in a long line..." type girls - his reactions to how she responds are so perfect - you could almost miss them (and, by reading other reviews - I see that people do).

When an actor becomes so immersed in their character that nothing needs to be said - that is a rare talent. After a first watching of the movie - I bounced over to a BL - Dangerous Romance - that had a stellar cast as well. There is a moment when one of the leads acknowledges/appreciates something done for them and the other characters reaction is so pure - you know it is unscripted and from the heart. It's beautiful to watch and experience. This happens many times in this movie as well.

Some of my favorite parts have no words. When he challenges/threatens Miyo when first meeting and she doesn't respond as expected. When Miyo visits him at the headquarters - worried he isn't taking care of himself and he runs across the room to see her. When Miyo cries after being appreciated for the meal she has prepared. There are so many more.

Put this one in your library so, you can come back to it for a fix when you need it. And, yes - to have that perfect hair.

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I’m happy. I’m Runner.

Cukup nyesel karena ga kesampaian nonton di bioskop. Jadi bayangin betapa kerennya scoring dan soundtrack yang penuh emosional menggema di sana. Wajib menang best score/music sih atau minimal masuk nominasi.

Salut sama akting ketiga main role, ada Ha Jung Woo, Im Siwan, dan Bae Seong Woo. Mereka bertiga sukses menciptakan kemistri yang ngena bagi penonton, terkhusus gua. Beberapa scene juga menarik perhatian, seperti scene ketika kakinya Yunbok yang bergetar karena kelelahan terlihat sangat realistis dan karakter ini diperankan dengan totalitas oleh Siwan. Selain itu, alurnya dikemas dengan baik dan sederhana namun tetap menyentuh hati.

Ini film biografi yang bakal memotivasi lu buat lari sih wkwk. Asli deh selama scene maraton dimulai bener-bener nonton dengan hikmat.

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Cross-section of the lives of Ricky and Roger and not only them. I was thinking how much time they are moving forward, and finally in 2029, same-sex marriages are legalized, which is of course just an idea of the creators, which probably won't happen even by mistake, because more than twenty years ago, HK fell back to China. At the R+R wedding, two pairs of lesbians get married, and this is the only "lesbian plot" in the entire film, which is otherwise exclusively dedicated to gays, their families, activism, which I don't really need, and it primarily maps the deep human destinies of two men, and the story would he also published a small series.


Průřez životy Rickyho a Rogera a nejen jich. Říkal jsem si, jak moc časově utíkají dopředu, a nakonec v roce 2029 jsou legalizovány sňatky osob stejného pohlaví, což je samozřejmě jen idea tvůrců, která se zřejmě nebude konat ani omylem, neboť před více jak dvaceti lety připadl HK zpět Číně. Na svatbě R+R se berou i dvě dvojice leseb, a to je jediná "lesbická zápletka" v celém filmu, který se jinak výhradně věnuje gayům, jejich rodinám, aktivismu, což moc nemusím a mapuje především hluboké lidské osudy dvou mužů a příběh by vydal i za malý seriál.

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I'm slightly underwhelmed by this movie, not that I want to give a low rating. The creators must have known why they created it this way, but for a long time I had nothing to grasp the picture. It was saved by the likeable actors. Nevertheless, I would probably cut the film into a medium-length or downright short film.

Z tohoto filmu jsem mírně v rozpacích, ne tak, že bych chtěl dát nízké hodnocení. Tvůrci jistě věděli, proč zrovna takto to vytvořili, ale já jsem dlouhou dobu neměl za co snímek uchopit. Zachránili to sympatičtí herci. Přesto bych zřejmě film prostříhal na středněmetrážní nebo vyloženě krátký film.

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Do you know the answer?

That's the question this movie asked. Not in the end, not in the first or not in some particular scene, they asked it again and again and again throughout the whole show. If you know the answer then you don't have to search for your soulmate or wait for a perfect person and if you don't know the answer then in the end you may be left all alone.

'Secret Love' isn't just a movie about an extramarital affair or about twin brothers who make everything confusing. This movie is about finding the true meaning of love.

The story is twisted, which is about how twin brothers love the same girl and the feelings of the girl for both of them and who would she choose. So this was engaging enough to hook you until the end.

The excitement of first love, the despair of losing them, the guilt of doing something unforgivable, the helplessness of not getting what you deserve, and finally the sadness of losing the tiny existing hope. This movie was full of many kinds of emotions and until the end, maintained its consistency.

The cinematography, music, acting, everything felt so real that it made this story which may seem like a dramatic &/opera type into a real-life heartbreaking story.

I didn't like the female lead solely due to her character in the story as how much she was unsure about her true feelings and making the 'Saving from the Mountain' as her deciding factor for her love. But I can't complain about it as that's one of the important elements of the movie.

Also, I admit I liked those occasional sexy scenes which I shouldn't have(?) Thanks to the creators for taking the love scenes as side elements and focusing more on the story and emotions.

Now coming to the most debatable and confusing part which is, "Who was it in that scene Jin Ho or Jin Woo?"

The first encounter was on a winter day when Yeon Yi greeted him with a heart shape on the glass wall, it was Jin Ho who was sitting as you can see the marine life book on the table. Then when he went away to clean the coffee(?) stain, Older brother Jin Woo came with a gift and formal dress and greeted Yeon Yi.

About the bathtub-loving scene, it was the husband Jin Woo (Many are confusing it with younger brother Jin Ho) as you can see the confused look on his face when Yeon Yi calls him Jin Ho while leaving the bathroom. Also, another proof is that Yeon Yi would never have slept with the husband because of her guilt but she did it thinking it was the younger brother as the ring perfectly fitted his finger. We know while the husband was in the hospital someone mentioned that he had lost so much weight, that's why the ring fitted his finger.

About the ending scene, it's hard to figure out who survived, but the movie creators exactly wanted to do that. On that note, there can be three possible things,

First is, Maybe it's Younger brother Jin Ho who survived. As you heard him narrating the story at the start of the film. Also, the handwriting in the letter he sent to Yeon Yi and the note he left for her about sleeping on the couch while facing the tree is kind of similar and Yeon Yi must have noticed that.

Second is, Maybe it's the husband Jin Woo who survived. As you know he didn't want to return home and forced his younger brother to go back because he thought Yeon Yi would never accept him again as her husband or love partner. Another thing is while he was falling from the bridge he requested his younger brother to take care of his wife. So, on the whole, he didn't want to meet her again and that's why after surviving he lived in a foreign country. Also, the mountain photo he had with him in the end(while sitting in the wheelchair) can be a hint too as he loved mountains.

Third is, It's up to us to decide who survived. None of the above hints, evidence, or clues are definite enough to prove who survived. So it's up to us to decide who Yeon Yi loved or did she love both of them but in a different way?

Again do you know the answer?

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For me, the film was definitely not interesting, on the contrary, because of the overall story and its ending, it was embarrassing, shocking, wtf? Little logical, skeletal character development. Other aspects of the evaluation were slightly above average. But you won't change my recommendation that all of this, even if someone can and will manage to get over Japan, despite the girls' Japanese hairstyles with landscapes, that I don't recommend the film.



Pro mě rozhodně nebyl snímek zajímavý, naopak, kvůli celkovému příběhu a jeho konci to byla trapárna, šok, wtf? Málo logické, kostrbatý vývoj postav. Ostatní aspekty hodnocení byly malinko nadprůměrné. Ty ale nezmění mé doporučení, že toto všechno, i když Japonsko někdo může a zvládne se přenést i přes ty dívčí japonské účesy s pejzy, že snímek nedoporučuji.

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This subtle BL romance (bromance) between Qing Ming and Bo Ya takes us to a historical period in East Asia, where demons rule, and the whole film is filled with action fantasy and mysticism. But the actual story is very convoluted and sometimes I almost got lost in it. Apparently, it should have been like that because of Onmyoji's design (or to simplify it a little?), anyway, the lowest rating from me for the story out of all the evaluation criteria. Played excellently, convincingly (Mark Chao, Allen Deng), there is a huge potential of actors in China. Fantastic fights, spectacular visuals, great effects and design really impressed me. But the music, it was absolutely the BEST and in the final passages of the film it directly communicates "something" very subtle between the two main characters, only the actors can't express it better because of Chinese regulations. Nice experience.



Tato subtilní BL romance (bromance) mezi Qing Ming-em a Bo Ya-em nás zavádí do historického období východní Asie, kde vládnou démoni a celým filmem prostupuje akční fantasy a mystično. Vlastní příběh je ale hodně spletitý a někdy jsem se v něm téměř ztrácel. Zřejmě to tak asi mělo být kvůli předloze Onmjódži (nebo malinko zjednodušit?), každopádně ode mě za příběh nejnižší hodnocení ze všech hodnotícíh kritérií. Zahráno výborně, přesvědčivě (Mark Chao, Allen Deng), v Číně je obrovský potenciál herců. Fantastické souboje, velkolepý vizuál, skvělé efekty a výprava mě hodně zaujaly. Ale ta hudba, ta byla úplně NEJ a v závěrečných pasážích snímku přímo sděluje "to něco" hodně jemného, co mezi oběma hlavními postavami je, jen to nemohou lépe herci kvůli čínským nařízením vyjádřit. Hezký zážitek.

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This is such a good movie. Donnie Yen is top notch as usually. I may be biased as he is one of my favorite Hong Kong actions stars of his or any other generation honestly. Just love this man. He's great here as a man who accidently kills a rival who challenged him. He then goes to jail (I assume manslaughter). He's never forgiven himself for the killing and works hard to not engage in fighting. A martial arts fanatic decides he wants to fight all the best martial artist in their given expertise and kill them in a fight to the death and has he eyes set on Wu Xia Hou, Donnie Yen's character.

Excellent fight choreography, great cast and nice throwbacks to some of Hong Kong's greatest martial arts collaborators.

12/9/23

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An entertaining movie with a very predictive storyline.

An entertaining movie with a very predictive storyline.

I think it's a nice and calm movie to watch in December however, the storylines were very predictive since the beginning. For example, you knew the So-Jin was going to end up with the guy that had been rejected 20 times on the dates haha

Lee Sang-Wook character although it was a stereotype of a CEO I liked that he had a soft side and he's so cute with the maid woman.

I really liked the fact that we had a storyline with two older people; they were each other first love. She's a sweet and career woman who even if she made her life and married someone else she knew deep in her heart that she and her first love were going to get together eventually.

As for the guy who tried to 💀 himself I didn't like his story but happy that he got a good ending though.

Oh, btw. This movie remind me a lot of Christmas Eve, a Yankee movie from 2011/2012.

So yeah, these are my thoughts.

Have you seen this movie?

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Part of the Plot was Left on the Moon

This is a very short dare I say educational film, there to show support to the trans community where they tried to squeeze in as many issues as they possibly could in to 8 minutes while still trying to have some kind of story.

The result of this ambition is that the viewers are left to piece a lot of the story together on their own, giving it a bit of the feeling of waking upp after a drunken night and trying to piece the evening together... Still the issues are important, the attempt at a plot admirable and the parental figures lovely.

But I do believe we all should live on earth, and that there is a need to go fetch the parts of the plot that where left on the moon. So here is for this getting a remake with a higher budget, but till then it will only take 8 minutes of your time so if you have come this far reading this review you might as well give it a try.

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Only thing that was bothering me while watching this movie was
there is 26 year old man who look more like 30+ man pretending to be a school kid
34+ shin hye sun look so younger then this Ajusshi looking school bully
Bully look like 34 while shin hye sun look like mid 20s

I can understand that you casted a big name like Shin hye sun so you don't have money for big ML actor
but could have casted a guy that look younger then his Age to fit in a student role
SHIN HYE SUN did amazing here 20/10 for her Acting


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School of horrors

Silenced is a South korean film released september 22 2011 Based on real life events. Silenced starts with the main character Kang In Ho who has moved to a new town to work at Gwangju Inhwa School for deaf children. Before he gets there he bumps into Seo Yoo Jin who gives her a ride to the school and tells him how she works with human rights organizations. When Kang In ho comes to the school he realizes that something is off about the students. From the way they would run away from him, or would avoid talking to him. When the students finally open up to him, he and yoo jin devotes himself to help the students receive their justice. “Silenced” being based on a true story makes it harder to figure out what the theme could possibly be. But the theme for this movie has to deal with injustice and the mistreatment of disabled people. The audience for this movie is for people 18 years and older. This movie contains graphic imagery of sexual assault and physical abuse . This movie was a heartbreaking watch, Knowing that this stuff happened in real life and that this movie doesn't even show the half of it. It hurt even more because you could feel the pain through the actors in this movies when they interact with each other. What is interesting about this is that after this movie was released it drew more attention to this case and caused public outrage. It even caused a change in laws and whole movements in South korea. This movie is such a moving piece on the insight on how humans can just be an absolute piece of shit. This description does not give them justice even worse than this. But this movie had me crying in the corner for minutes knowing that someone had to go through this and had to feel so small. But because of this reason I rate this movie a 10/10.

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A special ancestor to many horror movies

A lovely forebear of Evil Dead 2, it's animated by the same love of cinema and shares it with the same immoderate joy.
Another point in common is the use of arthouse-style editing effects with a half-horrific, half-humorous purpose and frenetic energy. And the latter creates some beautiful artistic moments amidst the chaos, such as the mirror scene and the piano assassination.
The then-young actresses have not enjoyed fantastic careers since, but I find them all convincing in what they were asked to do.
The older actress who plays the aunt is a pleasure to watch, having a ball as a very ham-handed villain.
The action scenes with Kung-Fu are surprisingly well done.

The film is dated, however, and whatever innovations it may have displayed on release, today some visual effects could look as if they'd been created with a bad free video editing app, and it's not always possible to overlook or sublimate them.
Fortunately, most of them are quite interesting, and add their share to an already rich and baroque editing style, set and props.
I don't have a strong opinion on the conclusion of the story, but it's a reasonable ending, yes.

The management of the music is perhaps one of the failures of this experimentation. On the one hand, I like the musical style's discrepancy with the film, but on the other, its constant use is both wearing and sometimes unsatisfactory. It's a flaw that could be applied to the film as a whole, which is highly lavish but just as messy.

A potential rewatchable winter classic as far as I'm concerned.

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