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the license makes me laugh more than it should, because of the license for lee chang-dong's 'burning' tried to make out well go usa was continuing a long tradition of licensing good arthouse films - the only one prior to 'burning' i could think of was 'the wailing', two years prior ... and here we are back with further attempts at crossover genre hits and films that look more expensive now than when you actually watch them.
I saw this last night and it was a fairly middling thriller with a social message. Not terrible by any means but nothing that raises it above the standard. Kind of good to see Lee Sung-min in a starring role though, he's usually playing these secondary roles and known more for being a character actor. I felt he performed admirably and was the best part of this movie despite being hampered by the mediocre script. The director's intentions is to spotlight the general apathy in Korean society towards being involved as witnesses in crimes scenes, accident scenes, etc. - the general tendency for people to not be bothered or involved in anything that might inconvenience them or their family later. I read that the director actually was inspired by the so called "bystander effect" or "Genovese syndrome" (named after the infamous murder of Kitty Genovese in her NYC apartment while onlookers and bystanders did nothing) & this flick would've been much better if it had stuck to this element instead of turning into a typical cat and mouse crime thriller in the end.
Speaking of Lee Sung-min, he's also in a spy thriller which is playing concurrently titled THE SPY GONE NORTH with Hwang Jung-min. I was undecided last night and against my better judgement, I picked the wrong movie. I'll definitely being go back to CGV to check out the spy thriller though.
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