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PaperclipPerfector  15d ago (text post)   2892 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 14, 2025

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Stopped reading this halfway through because I want to watch it. Will get back to you.

Good, good.

I'm going to watch two of Na Hong-jin's other films tonight with some friends - The Yellow Sea, a crime drama also featuring Kwak Do-won, and The Medium, a Thai horror mockumentary, I have high hopes.

The Medium is fun, but nowhere as good as the Wailing. Closer to a traditional horror movie. Still worth a watch.

Yeah The Medium was fun, especially the end where it dials it up to 11, but not even in The Wailing's zip code. Have you watched The Yellow Sea though? Now that's a downer ending. It follows a young deadbeat gambler living in the Joseon region whose wife went to work in Korea but hasn't been in contact since she left, filling him with paranoid fears of her cheating or being killed. After meeting a mob boss he is contracted to go to Korea to kill a professor, and upon completion he'll get enough money to bring his wife home. But absolutely nothing goes to plan because nobody involved can be trusted, so after a series of double crosses he decides to get revenge. It's a bit too long and complicated, but I think that's more due to the language and cultural barriers, as following so many moving parts in a complicated political situation I am largely ignorant of - plus a complicated social situation on top - while also reading all the dialogue gets overwhelming around the two hour mark, and then you still have half an hour to go. You can still follow what's going on, but it's exhausting. Or maybe I just feel drained from the after credits scene, God damn.

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