Showing posts with label South Korean films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Korean films. Show all posts

February 11, 2014

OLDBOY...Hammer It Home

Oldboy (R) 2003
Korean with English subtitles


So this whole eating of the live octopus thing.

Do you mean to tell me that in South Korea I can walk into a restaurant and order completely not dead cephalopods to stuff into my mouth like water balloons with eyes? How would that order go, exactly?

"Yes, I believe I will have the squirmy and definitely still alive slimy octopi please..."

"Certainly sir. And how would you like your octopi not cooked?"

I've seen a lot of disgusting things in my life, but eating something that has the potential to block your airways with its wriggling tentacles might beat out "Twerking" on the puke-o-meter. (If you have a preferred word for intestinal distress, please feel free to clutch your stomach and scream it repeatedly here.)

So yeah, there's that.

But hey! Why don't we go ahead and talk about the movie. Because despite it's culinary indiscretions, director Chan-wook Park's psychological thriller is truly a feast for the senses.

December 27, 2013

I SAW THE DEVIL...And A Spleen. And Some Arterial Fluid. And I Think A Severed Limb Or Two...

I Saw the Devil (NR) 2010
Korean with English subtitles

Every once in awhile, the universe decides to screw with you for no good reason. You wash your car and a thunderstorm rolls in. You leave the dentist's office and lose a tooth in your Cinnabon. You kidnap, rape and mutilate a helpless woman who is stranded in the middle of nowhere, and it turns out her fiancĂ© is a highly trained secret agent who is determined to rearrange your major organs like a Rubik's Cube. 

Some days, it just doesn't pay to put on pants.