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Ôdishon (1999)
Landmark Horror film
This film is a wonderful horror film. The pacing of the film and the way the viewer is drawn into a world of sympathetic characters only to suddenly realise that they entered into a world of true horror and evil is great.Like so many Asian films the viewer is not patronised or subjected to two dimensional characters and predictable scenarios. I love this film but it scared me to my core. I think this film raises the bar in terms of horror and following on from Ringu, Dark Waters. I can only hope it is not remade by Hollywood as they failed miserably to remake The Ring and Ring 2. I hope people do not try to intellectualise their responses to this film as with most films it should be experienced not dissected.It is a car crash for the brain but so skilled in its delivery that you feel in safe hands.
Nabbeun namja (2001)
Sex,violence,obsession,prostitution,love,life,pure cinema
This is a very entertaining film. It contains sex and violence.(Yes that's what I said).The themes are very dark and at the same time this is a very loving film.It is certainly a challenging film and strangely being set in South Korea has many European sensibilities.If you think the world can be explained in terms of black and white then this is not an easy film. However if you understand that the world you live in has shades of grey then here is a multi coloured chunk to digest.I liked the central characters and found them very believable.This film shows particular skill in having very rounded supporting roles. The lives of these people even when violent or mundane and self destructive are very easy to comprehend.It is the first film I have seen by this director and it will definitely not be the last.