critic (camp & movie)
Why is it that we dun have a choice. Somehow, when things are made compulsory, I am always compelled to go against it. Such is the rebellious spirit of mine. Haha. But if you think about it, why can't you just let everybody decide? Everything is dictated; you have to be present at all events else a valid reason must be provided. Is this a corporation or a church? Farce and I totally disapprove of it.
To addon, I have acclaimed a phobic nature towards blindfold events due to a minor misadventure I encountered in 2000 during a camp. Ah, I shan't digress here. That encounter itself would take an entire entry to foretell. Back to my phobic reaction. There is a sudden panick which grips me internally whenever I put on a blindfold. The creepy feeling starts coming down from my forehead and I begin to gasp short breaths. It's just an automated response which triggers from that act. Last night, it hit me pretty bad. There was a complex mix of emotions within me.
I chose to proceed with the challenge. I'm really an idiot at times. I could have walked out together with you. Believe me, I don't care what anyone says. Since when did the words of others have any effect on me?! Sighz, I consider their words only because I know they will come and find you to "talk" to you. That has been how it works since Poly days, isn't it.
Alright, enough about that. It gets on my nerves just thinking about it. Oh ya, I wanted to comment on Korean shows, just shows in general. They're rather disjointed. I mean, the following scene doesn't always link very well to the previous one and the audience has to decipher what went on in-between.
It happens in their dramas as well as their movies. However, it's not very obvious in a drama because there is a lot of time for them to space out their story. But it becomes very clear to the viewer in a movie. It seems that their plot is too long for the timeframe and so they end up sorta fast-forwarding to the next segment of the plot. However, it leads to a confused viewer trying to understand what happened. For a viewer to reach this stage, the show inevitably receives a poor rating. This is so, particularly if the disjointment was at the ending. Everyone loves a proper ending. I hate endings which allow the user to decide the conclusion. I mean, we follow the story to see what the ending is. Everyone enjoys the suspense but to never close the loop is a really lousy way to end any plot.
I quote Lovers in Paris (파리의 연인 / 巴黎戀人). It's a pretty short drama compared to the others. The story is about a rich man and a not-so-well-off lady who meet in Paris and fall in love. How he will have to convince his family to accept her but they won't because of their status. I'll spare the details since the inconjuncture is regarding their love affair. Along the way, they both return to Korea and life goes on there. However, due to all the difficulty she faces in trying to fit in with his family after their engagement, she decides to leave for Paris and to short-circuit the relationship.
He returns to Paris to find her much later and when they meet, they begin to reminisce how they met. But they both agree that they would have crossed paths even if they didn't bump into each other in Paris. The scene suddenly moves to his house and how she is a househelp there. How her habits irritate him and how he runs over her stuff in a streetsale. However, all the scenes are shot in Korea and in each scene, they are both strangers to each other. Now, for the audience, we are completely perplexed as to why they are acting like they don't know each other when they have already gone through so much difficulty in their love story. Actually, what the director is trying us is that they would have met in Korea even if they didn't meet in Paris. So he is painting us a picture of how else they would have met. Meaning, it's inadvertent that they meet because they were meant for each other. But they didn't do a proper linkage.
Haha. Now I understand why my colleague said she couldn't make head or tail of the last scene. Even I had difficulty figuring out what was going on. There is 1 scene though, in-which she says she hopes that her lover came come to her like in her scripted play. Perhaps, that is how they were trying to get that message across to us, but it sure took me another 30 minutes before I got that message.
Wah, it's far worse in a movie. With only 90 minutes, there are more confused looks. Haha. Yes, I do feel that Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (친절한 금자씨 / 親切的金子) didn't have a strong storyline to it. Erm, I spent too much time trying to figure out what happened in-between each scene. In my opinion, when any viewer has to do so much thinking, it is a poorly-planned show. With the amount of time onhand, the director has to highlight the major lines of the story and to ignore any details that may not be so important to the show. Oh well, they need more experience. Park Chan Woo (박찬욱) is, in my opinion, uncomparable to the directors in Hollywood. His plots are good, but his delivery needs polishing.
That's it! My 10 minutes' worth of movie-review.
To addon, I have acclaimed a phobic nature towards blindfold events due to a minor misadventure I encountered in 2000 during a camp. Ah, I shan't digress here. That encounter itself would take an entire entry to foretell. Back to my phobic reaction. There is a sudden panick which grips me internally whenever I put on a blindfold. The creepy feeling starts coming down from my forehead and I begin to gasp short breaths. It's just an automated response which triggers from that act. Last night, it hit me pretty bad. There was a complex mix of emotions within me.
I chose to proceed with the challenge. I'm really an idiot at times. I could have walked out together with you. Believe me, I don't care what anyone says. Since when did the words of others have any effect on me?! Sighz, I consider their words only because I know they will come and find you to "talk" to you. That has been how it works since Poly days, isn't it.
Alright, enough about that. It gets on my nerves just thinking about it. Oh ya, I wanted to comment on Korean shows, just shows in general. They're rather disjointed. I mean, the following scene doesn't always link very well to the previous one and the audience has to decipher what went on in-between.
It happens in their dramas as well as their movies. However, it's not very obvious in a drama because there is a lot of time for them to space out their story. But it becomes very clear to the viewer in a movie. It seems that their plot is too long for the timeframe and so they end up sorta fast-forwarding to the next segment of the plot. However, it leads to a confused viewer trying to understand what happened. For a viewer to reach this stage, the show inevitably receives a poor rating. This is so, particularly if the disjointment was at the ending. Everyone loves a proper ending. I hate endings which allow the user to decide the conclusion. I mean, we follow the story to see what the ending is. Everyone enjoys the suspense but to never close the loop is a really lousy way to end any plot.
I quote Lovers in Paris (파리의 연인 / 巴黎戀人). It's a pretty short drama compared to the others. The story is about a rich man and a not-so-well-off lady who meet in Paris and fall in love. How he will have to convince his family to accept her but they won't because of their status. I'll spare the details since the inconjuncture is regarding their love affair. Along the way, they both return to Korea and life goes on there. However, due to all the difficulty she faces in trying to fit in with his family after their engagement, she decides to leave for Paris and to short-circuit the relationship.
He returns to Paris to find her much later and when they meet, they begin to reminisce how they met. But they both agree that they would have crossed paths even if they didn't bump into each other in Paris. The scene suddenly moves to his house and how she is a househelp there. How her habits irritate him and how he runs over her stuff in a streetsale. However, all the scenes are shot in Korea and in each scene, they are both strangers to each other. Now, for the audience, we are completely perplexed as to why they are acting like they don't know each other when they have already gone through so much difficulty in their love story. Actually, what the director is trying us is that they would have met in Korea even if they didn't meet in Paris. So he is painting us a picture of how else they would have met. Meaning, it's inadvertent that they meet because they were meant for each other. But they didn't do a proper linkage.
Haha. Now I understand why my colleague said she couldn't make head or tail of the last scene. Even I had difficulty figuring out what was going on. There is 1 scene though, in-which she says she hopes that her lover came come to her like in her scripted play. Perhaps, that is how they were trying to get that message across to us, but it sure took me another 30 minutes before I got that message.
Wah, it's far worse in a movie. With only 90 minutes, there are more confused looks. Haha. Yes, I do feel that Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (친절한 금자씨 / 親切的金子) didn't have a strong storyline to it. Erm, I spent too much time trying to figure out what happened in-between each scene. In my opinion, when any viewer has to do so much thinking, it is a poorly-planned show. With the amount of time onhand, the director has to highlight the major lines of the story and to ignore any details that may not be so important to the show. Oh well, they need more experience. Park Chan Woo (박찬욱) is, in my opinion, uncomparable to the directors in Hollywood. His plots are good, but his delivery needs polishing.
That's it! My 10 minutes' worth of movie-review.