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Ddo Oh Hae Yeong (2016)
Good premise, awful progress, worse character development
I like the premise. About two woman share the same name and all the complicated confusing events that follows their path. But, Another Miss OH really one of the worst female lead ever existed. Instead of thinking carefully and meditating her situation as an adult woman, she is practically going crazy begging for love. I don't even have to mention about other characters who look like a bunch of lunatic on loose from mental hospital.
Inventing Anna (2022)
What's wrong with Anna Chlumsky?
It is really tiring to see Anna Chlumsky's face with her over the top performance. Every time she is talking, it feels like all her muscle had to work hard on her face. It was cute when she was 10 years old but when you are playing an adult, a journalist on a mission, that kind of face acrobatics would scare away her sources. Honestly, she is everything that went wrong with this series. Sometimes, I wanted to slap her in the face.
Seobok (2021)
21st century version of Frankenstein's Tale
I almost didn't realize that I stared my black screen long after Seo Bok finished. Last year, when I read the news stating, "The first Korean sci-fi action film, "Seo Bok", the first human clone through stem cell cloning and genetic engineering. With Gong Yoo and Park Bo Gum as leads", I had a preconceived image about how Seo Bok would be. I thought, Korean would go all out in Hollywoodian tradition of shallow sci-fi bombastic action.
I was wrong. Though there is a bit of Hollywoodian appearance in the style, Seo Bok is still Korean at its core, with Korean / Asian values / approach that I come to love years ago when I started to be interested in Korean cinema.
Seo Bok delivers the everlasting question about live and death in an unconventional way: the meeting of two protagonists from opposite ends of the spectrum. One is dying (Ki-Hun played wonderfully by Gong Yoo). And the other one has the possibility to be immortal (Seo-Bok played by Park Bogum). I have to admit, Park Bogum gradual transformation from a curious-ordinary-innocent-kid to an intelligent-sensitive-observant creature then transformed into an angry wounded beast, is worth an Oscar. Effortless and seamless transformation just with his facial expression and his gaze.
The premise of Seo-Bok follows the path of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with more of human approach (and Asian values). Ki-Hun is afraid to die mostly because his traumatic past that led him to believe he would encounter an unimaginable terrible punishment in the other side. His buying his time out of fear. Somehow, Ki-Hun is the reincarnation of Captain Walton's Mary Shelley. And as the story progress, we have Victor Frankenstein in the form of a mother / scientist who created Seo bok with a very humanly reason: out of grief.
As every story with out-of-control human ambition, Seo-bok, which is based on fear and grief of inevitable human destiny, is a great movie that worth watches more than once.
Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne (2019)
On why Bran has a better story to become a King
I will skip everything related to fans's disspointment of the finale season. I love the show anyway. And some people argue that Tyrion's speech is senseless. "What unites people? Army? Gold? Flags? Stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. and who has a better story than Bran ?
Of course, in the modern world and by audience's standards, many of Game Of Thrones characters have better stories. That's why we love the show. That's why we love Arya, Sansa, Tyrion, Jaime, Dany, Jon Snow, even Cersei at some point.
But in the context of Westeros, their stories are the-need-to-survive-stories. Everybody in their situations will do any extraordinary thing in order to survive with whatever means and with whatever tricks that they could use (Arya, Tyrion, Sansa, Jon Snow, Jaime, Dany, Bran, etc...you name it). There are only two exceptionals in that context, namely Dany with her three dragons story and Bran with his transformation into Three-eyed-raven. Theirs are extraodinary-superstitious-mythical-legend-worth story.
Apart from that, if we have to choose a king. Would you like to be govern by Arya the assasin? She will become a terrible queen with her skill, she will kill anyone that she thinks worth killing, just like Dany. Jon Snow the oathbreaker ? Personally, I will not choose a leader who promise to do one thing and break his promise as soon as he sees an oportunity, even if what he did is in the name of a greater good. Oh no. Jon is good at heart and has the charisma, but he is not strong enough to be a good king. Tyrion the Imp ? People will always like a charismatic leader, and Tyrion has to work very hard to gain respect from other people, so he might be a good king, but he will always be surrounded by people who talk in his back. And let's face it, Dany is dead. Even though Dany was alive, she was too blinded by her power. The only contender is Sansa, but Sansa knows better and knows her limit. North is in her hands, and she knows greed can overpower people's judgment. So she chooses to stick to her own homeland where people love her.
Long live Bran the Broken !