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Directed by - Park Cheol-Su
Country of Origin - South Korea
Nick's Rating: (5 out of 10)


What? Another South Korean Film? Yes dammit! A bunch of bad-ass movies come out of South Korea and I have yet to even scratch the surface. This is a really good movie. Notice I said, "Good" and not "Great". What stops it from being great is that this movie drags much like Michael Mann's movie "Heat" . . . not that Heat's a bad movie just that it seemed 2 hours too long. And there's a sex scene (Wahoo! Uhh wait, actually it's more like . . . Zzzzz) that seems to go on for about 10 minutes. Really the scene only lasts about 3 minutes but it's so passionless and seems to have no real purpose in the movie that it causes time, as we know it, to slow down and create a vortex of boredom. Other than those problems the movie is very disturbing and has you wondering just exactly what will become of these two female neighbors who are both completely out of their minds due to past abusive relationships. Beware! Food is a big motif in this film, so when you're not about to be sick to your stomach because of something very twisted that you just observed, you're hungry from looking at food being constantly prepared or eaten. All-in-all it's a good film and totally worth seeing. Who knows, you might totally disagree with me and think that every scene has a definite purpose to the over-all telling of the story, but just to be safe keep your finger on the fast-forward button.

-Nick