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Post by hi224 on Apr 27, 2017 20:32:04 GMT
I love that very movie really taut and hilarious.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 1, 2017 2:19:38 GMT
It's on my watchlist.
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Post by hi224 on May 1, 2017 2:38:03 GMT
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Post by rudeboy on May 1, 2017 3:46:34 GMT
It's excellent, but - and this is a problem with so many South Korean movies, including some VERY good ones - the attempts at goofy humour and over the top melodrama have me rolling my eyes.
Compelling, though.
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Post by Vits on May 1, 2021 22:18:16 GMT
10/10 1) The first and last scenes seemed to have a lot of saturation, while every other scene has a more muted color palette. Why?
2) Early on, the characters are watching TV. Kwang-ho says that he always watches that crime series with his dad. I assumed that we would later find out that his "confession" was him quoting an episode. Or that his dad was the killer, hence why he was able to witness it. Later, when he attacks Cho on his leg, I assumed that he would turn out to be the killer. Think about it: The cops sort-of frame innocent people because they're so desperate to catch the killer, but Cho would be doing that in order to frame someone else for his crimes. But in retrospective, if that was true, he would've dismissed the theories about the radio station (the same way Park did).
3) When Kwang-ho dies, Park goes to Seol-yung's house and asks her to wash his bloody clothes. She says "They'll be looking for you," implying that he had escaped afraid of others thinking it was a murder. However, in the next scene, is back working like nothing happened. Why?
4) At the end, Park is a salesman (or something). Did failing to catch the killer made him retire from the police? I prefer to think that, when Hyeon-gyu got away, he told what Park and Seo had done to him (even if he didn't want to at first, someone must've interrogated him, since he was beaten up and handcuffed). Since the corruption had already become public knowledge, they would've been fired, right?
5) How do you interpret the ending? I think it has a lot to do with subverting the tropes of the genre. The cops do all kinds of horrible things, including physically abusing a mentally challenged person even after realizing that he's innocent (they think it's playful). A lot of moments involving the procedures, which are usually presented seriously, are played for laughs. And now, at the end, this little girl says that the killer looks normal. He doesn't have any unique traits like a cinematic villain would. Also, Park had mentioned his abilities to "read" a person, focusing on unique traits. He now realizes that his methods were wrong all along. |
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