Lol-lywood

I don’t know if it’s because I had already seen Shiri, but this was one of my least favorite films that we have seen in this course so far. This may be due to me having seen so many “Hollywood” type movies growing up, I have become over-saturated with this “genre” that I am literally allergic to it now (this is mostly applicable to action movies). As a boy I loved every single action movie that came out even if it was terrible, because I was a guy I felt like I had to love action movies, around maybe when I was 17 I kept going to the cinema with my friends to see every new action release though that’s when I started to be bored of it. I don’t know if it’s the Hollywood blockbuster formula or if it’s just me but for the sake of this post, the film we watched and the reading, I’ll just say I didn’t enjoy the movie because of its Hollywood style. To me it’s like eating a McDonald’s burger. There is no real taste, it doesn’t stimulate my senses. The main mystery of the film can be figured out by the audience quite easily if you ask yourself the right question which to me was: why is the director so dead-set on hiding Hee’s face? The next step in my reasoning is that well her identity will be revealed later and used as a shock since what would be the point in doing so many things to hide her face if once we see it, it’s just some random person that we don’t know or care about. After that, you start thinking about possible female characters that could be Hee and since this film only has one, we don’t have to look very far... To me this is an “unintriguing” intrigue, if I can easily call the shots in a movie’s progression, I become bored. And I think I am correct (could be wrong) in saying that Hollywood-like movies are the easiest to predict. The line about Hee and Hyun representing the two Koreas was the highlight of the movie for me because it gets the audience to rethink about every scene involving them. Though I felt like Hee/Hyun’s progression as a character was inconsistent and lazy and a lot more could have been done to really bring that real and inner war to the forefront of the film instead of it being drowned in various Hollywood-like elements. Why was the climax so not climatic? Why was it so short? Why was it so quiet and unexplored? I am talking about Yu and Hee’s standoff.

Too much marketing, it’s all about the budget, bleh, meh. 

Maybe it's just me, yeah. lol

I just wasn't moved or surprised or didn't feel like the film was "extreme" in any way.