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Deo geullori (2022)
One dimensional, comically evil, comically cringe.
Bad guys are bad, comically evil. No depth, no redeeming qualities. Bad to protagonist, bad to each other. I have more chemistry with a slice of pizza than the main antagonist with her dreams/motivations (her relationships with her husband and daughter).
Main character is ok. Comes off as dead inside, no anger or sadness or joy. Just dead. Not great for a revenge story, but some moments are saved by her veteran acting skills.
Main character's love interest is a 27yo, acting the role of a 35yo, but comes off as immature & shallow as an 18yo. He's a stereotypical teenage girl's crush: a doctor & a bad boy who gets into fights, empathetic & loved by his patients, from a good background & willing to kill for his love interest who doesn't reciprocate any kindness. King of simps. King of cringe.
Interesting plot. Terrible characters. Interesting quotes. Terrible dialog. Interesting story. Terrible execution.
One dimensional. Comically cringe.
Gwimul (2021)
Insidious devolution to high school writing
Starts off strong. But devolves to high school writing by nonsensical character thoughts/ action/motivations that are inconsistent with the previous 10 episodes for cheap surprise twists. Eg when jeong je's mom reveals that she actually hated him the entire time. There are also major logical inconsistencies such as when when trying to figure out who killed Mi Jeong, the police officers blame each other and themselves because they thought they were the last to see her however it has already been established that they know that her father was the last to see her! Why does dong shik smile in a devilish way only up to the episode where it's revealed that he actually is not the serial killer?? Why does Ju won get surprised when his father gets angry at him for acting like a insecure malignant son the entire series??
AlphaGo (2017)
An AI movie about a discovery of humanity
I was awed by the storytelling of man's greatest Go representative initially thinking he is undefeatable vs AI to a progressive Fall from Grace and crushing of his confidence. Just as mankind was feeling hopelessly pitiful versus machine, he and everyone else present then found redemption in the fourth match to squeeze out a miraculous victory by sheer human ingenuity. I almost cried at that moment.
And through this match against the machine he and the rest of the Go community begin to wonder what it even means to be creative in Go. Where the moves he and the rest of the Go community found to be creative, actually just conventional? And the AI moves that he thought were foolish, actually imperceptibly creative and genius? I thought I was watching a documentary about machine learning and AI but instead I found it to be a documentary about humanity.
Perhaps I was most struck by how I could feel both happy and sad at the same time from this documentary. Happy when the arrogant human lost to the AI, but incredibly sad at the same time. Happy that this team of computer science researchers created such a masterpiece, but sad that the Go players who devote their entire lives to Go will never be able to catch up with AI. 3 years after losing to the AI in this film, the Go player retired from Go at the age of ~35y stating that even if he's rank 1 in the world, he will never be able to defeat AI.