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12.12: The Day 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It’s a easy to identify the monster in director Kim Sung-soo’s latest film, 12.12: The Day, based on the military coup that overthrew the South Korean government on December 12, 1979: Chun Doo-gwang (Hwang Jung-min), the military leader who led the mutiny, stands at the center of the story. Hwang’s Chun Doo-gwang gives off an air similar to Ian McKellen’s portrayal of the titular character in the 1995 version of Shakespeare’s Richard III. The real Chun Doo-hwan, on whom Hwang’s…
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Monster 2023
In the simplest sense, the one thing that keeps the characters in Monster going is love. Saori (Sakura Ando) loves her son Minato (Soya Kurokawa) with all her heart; a teacher named Hori (Eita Nagayama) loves his students; the boy Minato loves his friend Yori (Hinata Hiiragi). And yet they all end up in great pain and at the end of their ropes. Where did things go so wrong? The film, written by screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto, borrows the repeat sign…
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The Dream Songs 2022
A day before she’s set to go on a field trip, high school student Semi(Park Hye-su) suddenly wakes up from a sad dream and finds herself back in class. Though she can’t remember what happened in the dream, her cheeks are streaked from tears. Semi consequently grows anxious about her best friend, Ha-eun (Kim Si-eun), who had been hit by a bicycle and won’t be about to go on the trip. Semi decides to leave school early and visit her…
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