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alexandralI have watched a Korean film “The Host” this weekend, and it was great!! Big applauds to the two main actors:
Song Gang-Ho , a star of "Sympathy for Mr Vengeance". OMPH! His range of acting is incredible, he is absolutely different here!
Byeon Hee-Bong , an evil grandfather from the Korean drama "My Girl". If you ever wanted all the evil things come upon the evil grandfather, watch "The Host".
The story Toxic chemical waste was deliberately spilled into Kan-river. Six years later a man-eating monster appears from the depth of the river. To make matters worse, Korean military announces that the Monster is a carrier of the lethal viral disease. A simple family (grandfather, father, aunty and uncle) are trying to save a little girl who is abducted by the Monster.
The Monster Even for this day and age of computer graphics, when artificial neural networks are applied to create an astounding special effects in the films like “Lord of the Rings”, The Monster was created superbly. It looked absolutely real, never was out of place, and it had a personality!!! It even appeared to have some very dark sense of humour, totally in unison with the rest of the film.
And EEEEEEEEEEE! There were some very important topics raised in the film, it made me think, think think and laugh about it all
East/West It was hilarious to see how the western people were portrayed in "The Host". I don’t know 100 percent about Korea (but it seems to be the case from the watching this film), but in Russia anyone coming from the developed European countries or USA is looked upon as a semi-god of some kind.
Social issues and satire: The BIG fear of the Bird Flu Off-the-wall, crazy and dark humour was the best thing in the film. The issues of the increasing paranoia in the world, fear of the lethal diseases like Bird Flu and biological warfare are very difficult issues to laugh about. But (this is just my opinion) people in recent years are becoming increasingly obsessed with pandemics, diseases, etc.. Everyone is so very serious about this. Just during the couple of recent weeks we had a documentary about Bird Flu followed by the documentary about the Big Flu Pandemic showing us scenarios of these diseases spreading around the world in a matter of weeks. Do I think it is all impossible? No, after things I have seen happening before my eyes I can believe it. But do I think it is likely? No.
The fact is that the more important issues, for example, continuous spreading of AIDS are overlooked and over-shadowed by these scares-of-the-day. At the beginning, in the heyday of AIDS scare, we heard about this disease every day from the news screen. Now we hardly hear anything anymore, but at the same time in some parts of Africa as much as 20% of population is infected by AIDS.
Song Gang-Ho , a star of "Sympathy for Mr Vengeance". OMPH! His range of acting is incredible, he is absolutely different here!
Byeon Hee-Bong , an evil grandfather from the Korean drama "My Girl". If you ever wanted all the evil things come upon the evil grandfather, watch "The Host".
The story Toxic chemical waste was deliberately spilled into Kan-river. Six years later a man-eating monster appears from the depth of the river. To make matters worse, Korean military announces that the Monster is a carrier of the lethal viral disease. A simple family (grandfather, father, aunty and uncle) are trying to save a little girl who is abducted by the Monster.
The Monster Even for this day and age of computer graphics, when artificial neural networks are applied to create an astounding special effects in the films like “Lord of the Rings”, The Monster was created superbly. It looked absolutely real, never was out of place, and it had a personality!!! It even appeared to have some very dark sense of humour, totally in unison with the rest of the film.
And EEEEEEEEEEE! There were some very important topics raised in the film, it made me think, think think and laugh about it all
East/West It was hilarious to see how the western people were portrayed in "The Host". I don’t know 100 percent about Korea (but it seems to be the case from the watching this film), but in Russia anyone coming from the developed European countries or USA is looked upon as a semi-god of some kind.
Social issues and satire: The BIG fear of the Bird Flu Off-the-wall, crazy and dark humour was the best thing in the film. The issues of the increasing paranoia in the world, fear of the lethal diseases like Bird Flu and biological warfare are very difficult issues to laugh about. But (this is just my opinion) people in recent years are becoming increasingly obsessed with pandemics, diseases, etc.. Everyone is so very serious about this. Just during the couple of recent weeks we had a documentary about Bird Flu followed by the documentary about the Big Flu Pandemic showing us scenarios of these diseases spreading around the world in a matter of weeks. Do I think it is all impossible? No, after things I have seen happening before my eyes I can believe it. But do I think it is likely? No.
The fact is that the more important issues, for example, continuous spreading of AIDS are overlooked and over-shadowed by these scares-of-the-day. At the beginning, in the heyday of AIDS scare, we heard about this disease every day from the news screen. Now we hardly hear anything anymore, but at the same time in some parts of Africa as much as 20% of population is infected by AIDS.
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Date: 2006-12-05 05:46 pm (UTC)I'm not sure if you implicitly say so yourself, but I'm fairly sure that Weta Digital from New Zealand is responsible for the creation of the monster so it's no coincidence that LotR comes to mind. :)
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Date: 2006-12-05 06:26 pm (UTC)EEEEEEEEEEE! I didn't know about this!! I think it was the quality if the creation what made me think about LOTR because the Monster looks completely different from anything LOTR-like (the closest example of what it looked like would be Alien, but it is not really close), I didn't even dream it is made by the same team. I love it!!
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Date: 2006-12-05 07:58 pm (UTC)I'm also glad you enjoyed the film. As I said earlier, I really enjoyed it for it's absurdity and dark humour, plus the way the dysfunctional family banded together in the face of adversity.
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Date: 2006-12-05 11:51 pm (UTC)plus the way the dysfunctional family banded together in the face of adversity
I don't know if you have seen "My Girl" already, but I could not stop remembering it during the grandfather's speeches. :D
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-05 11:50 am (UTC)I could not notice this ironic attitude towards americants, and I loved it! Especially the amierican boy who wanted to play a hero hahaha
You could see the contrast between him and the Koreans - except for the father, he was stupid enough to go after the guy.
The film rocks. just as the director. I love his sense of humour.
If you haven't seen 'Memories of Murder' by Joon-ho Bong check it out. One of the best thrillers I've ever seen and Song Gang-Ho has a brilliant performance there :)
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Date: 2007-08-03 12:46 pm (UTC)The film rocks. just as the director. I love his sense of humour. </I. dead-pan of--the-wall sense of humour is probably something that drew me in from the start. It is like the soul of the film!!