Technically capable but severely hindered by an excessive runtime bloated by exposition that largely exists to deliver on paper-thin commentary.
Maybe the oxygen is a bit thinner in space but having narration and character dialogue speak explicitly to what is happening speaks to an earnest eagerness and naïveté in message, a mistrust of the audience, or maybe even an insecurity in the delivery. Bizarre coming from Memories of Murder. Little of the narrative is left to breathe on its own,…
Grotesque, weird, uncomforting, mystifying. Visually gorgeous and a genuine marvel of the craft. Though functionally wordless, it is thematically dense in a crude and confrontational way which feels rather fitting. To be brutish in summary, it seems a rejection of hierarchy, coerced violence, and the systems that perpetuate either of them. You are met with a motley crew of disgusting creatures that perhaps once were something closer to human but have long since been warped by the world in which…
whitest movie ive ever seen. good performances but i hate everyone in this
