Turns out 70-years-ago boomers believed that teenagers were turning into the psychopathic mob in Assault on 13th Precinct.
I can definitely see how this became a hit among teenagers who were mostly forbidden to enter the theater, but did it anyway. The transgressions of the students are too over-the-top to not have some fun. The film’s biggest sin is definitely never fully choosing to see things from the kids’ perspective. Even by the seemingly happy end, it still feels like…
Things seemingly coming to an end, only to be traditionally continued on in different forms and times as eccentric rationales and entities.
It is clear at this point in his career that the capital is the central antagonist in Bong Joon Ho’s filmography. The usual way in which he examines class structures and power dynamics is instantly recognizable in the set-up for the film, complete with the familiar mix of sarcasm and actual cruciality.
Even though he succeeds in what you would expect him to succeed in, the more adventurous swings in epic storytelling don’t really hit the target. The drastic difference…
Since all my fellow students are wrestling with assignments in this season of the year, I decided to do a cozy VHS screening this time.
Really find this film’s meshing of the classic horror formula with wartime propaganda quite interesting. A sort of “foreign evil” with mind control powers - put to sleep in 1918, awakened by Nazi bombers in 1943? Hollywood continues the propaganda frontier on the B-market.
Bela is great here as always, and I love his “Nobody…
