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  Review by Elaine Fuentes ★★★★½ 1

  Genuinely one of the better animated films I've seen in quite some time. I'm not joking when I say this is one of the most hopeless and devastating films made from the last decade. I know that may seem hard to believe on first glance but TRUST ME when I say this. It really is quite a shame that this has as little attention that it has, because it was really something to behold. please please see this I can't recommend it enough.

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  Review by Cormac 👑 ★★★ 10

  I’m pretty sure a fish looked me dead in the eye and stared deep into my soul before declaring his intention to eat one of the other, less alive fish. And hey, I’m for survival of the fittest as much as the next guy but just, like, know that I’m not okay. 

  PADAK casually oscillates (flip-flops) between existential musings of tank-confined fish friends with 2012 video game cutscene energy. Where flat creature designs rub scales with eye-bleedingly offensive human ‘characters’, sure to send you reaching for the nearest water-noose. Almost as dour as its sobering implications about animals as living just to die for our greedy pleasures.

  And genuinely banging tunes (again, by various members of this depressed fish gang™)…

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  Review by Half_Point ★★★

  this happened to my fish eric

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  Review by Ben ★★★

  Summer of South Korean Cinema: Animated film

  Do not be fooled by the poster – sea creatures get decimated in every imaginable way in this film. Most of the animation is gross and ugly, which suits the violent nature of the film. However, the filmmakers treat the audience to some stunning hand-drawn sequences accompanied by musical numbers a few times, and these are unquestionably the high points of the film. Despite the contrasting animation styles, the message always stays consistent. The film's message is communicated in the clearest of terms, and it essentially says: the ways humans currently consume and treat fish are not appropriate or sustainable.

  Padak, similar to all other films that comment on consumption habits and the…

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  Review by Jay ★★★½

  2001 a fish cannibal odyssey

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  Review by Noah Cassidy ★★★

  Do you want to live?

  Someone in South Korea asked themselves "You know what Finding Nemo needed more of? Musical numbers and cannibalism." Padak is another film that I would have had no idea so much as existed without having seen someone I follow randomly review it with a suspiciously high rating. Well, turns out what you would initially think is a cruddy rip-off of something stands on its own two legs (fins?) as a very dark but unique film. Please don't take that as a joke, I was at times shocked by not only how gory this movie is, but how the actual subject matter is upsetting and gets under your skin in unexpected ways. Not for kids in…

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  Review by Koro_Rider ★★★½

  THIS POSTER IS A LIE!

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  Review by Moresbi ★★★★½ 2

  M(a)y Korea 2024 #36 - Animation from M(a)y Korea 2024

  Progress: 30/31

  "Pa-dak pa-dak" aka "Swimming to Sea" (also "Padak") was surprising, merciless and somewhat of a multi-genre gem, of sorts.

  The plot is bleak, realistic and (literally) "fishy" :D As the title might suggest and, pretty much from the get go, it's all pretty straightfoward. The "key" is how this might (or not) resonate with you and to what length you will enjoy it's certainly unassuming but yet creatively and daring multifaceted ways.

  Some love for the "characters". Quite accomplished in achieving so very neat "personalities" (and expressions).

  Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Musical, Mystery and Thriller. I would say "mystery" might be pushing it but all the others are…

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  Review by Deen4 ★★★½

  Desde Corea llega la versión alterna de Buscando a Nemo: Peces viviendo sus últimos días de vida antes de que la gente los saque de sus peceras,los sometan a estar sin aire los últimos segundos de su vida agonizando del dolor, desesperados con ganas de gritar a través de sus gargantas secas porque una hoja afilada abre sus cuerpos y observan como les sacan sus tripas para partirlos en pedazos y ser comidos.

  Así es como se hace una animación adulta,ves "Free Jimmy"??? Las tres escenas musicales salvan esta película de ser una experiencia aún más deprimente,la canción de la anguila es mi favorita,me gusto que cierto personaje secundario tenía traumas similares al horror de la guerra.

  Si llegaste hasta acá, felicidades aquí está tu película youtu.be/Sl2328H807I?si=mq-J1K465nwE-ElK activen subtitulos.

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  Review by Beau ★★★★½

  “Just a little bit more...”

  An odd, odd film. Padak isn’t quite like anything I’ve seen before; looking at the poster and plot beforehand I thought this would be just some dumb, cheap animated film, and I was brutally wrong. There’s not much I can say that would do this film justice, you just have to see it to believe it. Truly one-of-a-kind cinema.

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  Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★★★

  One of the plot threads in Pixar's Finding Nemo (2003) sees the titular fish attempting to escape an aquarium. Beyond captivity, the immediate threat is an unruly child whose poor pet handling skills are a death sentence. It's grim, but handled with that sophisticated Pixar touch that illustrates an unpleasant reality while hoping to educate children on pet care responsibilities - all while ensuring that a generation of tots forced their folks to get fish. Nemo takes something dark and puts an almost whimsical spin on it.

  Padak (2012) takes this aquarium as prison concept, but rather than a white-collar stretch goes the POW horror route - cannibalism abounds. A fish food restaurant's tank sits out on the street, on…

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  Review by taylor 4

  absolutely devastating, holy mackerel!