death note meets orthros no inu meets maou/the devil meets every other creepy wrong thing ever - and jeez kang donwon is so f*cking scarey as a bad guy...
first point, i really dont know why but for some reason in this ko soo realy looks like mizobata junpei. he doesnt usually. (and maybe dongwon had a few elijah wood moments too. if elijah wood was playing L from death note.)
cast:
kyunam - ko soo (will it snow at christmas, marrying a millionaire)
choin - kang dongwon (temptaion of wolves, too beautiful to lie)
jungsik - byun heebong (my girlfriend is a gumiho)
youngsook - jung eunchae (play)
jungsik - byun heebong (my girlfriend is a gumiho)
youngsook - jung eunchae (play)
choin as a boy - yang kyungmo
boba - abu dodd
ali - enes kaya
im seriously weirded out by this movie. in true korean style it offers little explanation for supernatural things and that makes for such an interesting pace. f*cked if i know what the hell it was all about though. i feel like somehow surreal things like this stay more true to life if they arent explained too much - probably due to the fact that if sh*t like this really happened we wouldnt have a clue what to do and why it was happening. some evil guy showering a wopping great monologue over the good guy's head never seems to scream realism to me. neither does rummaging through books and finding the key to all the weird happenings in some article and suddenly it all has a history and reason... etc etc yawn etc.
i should outline the plot but im not sure where to start. and i certainly dont want to add any spoilers to this review. choin (kang dongwon) can control people with his scarey silver eyes and has gone a bit mad from his parents trying to kill him when he was a kid. he can make people give him money, kill themselves, kill other people - basically whatever he wants them to do. ko soo plays kyunam - he seems to actually be even more super human in the sense that all this stupid sh*t happens to him constantly and he doesnt die.
nothing is really understood even at the end but basically one can kill and one cant be killed so, in a truely orthos no inu type fashion, it becomes kyunam's duty to stop choin.
i have no idea why this movie is called psychic. and why the western title is haunters. neither make sense! but reguardless, this film is full of *aigh sh*t-god f*ck!* inducing moments (which im now dubbing *すごく ショック* as of yesterday), a lot of leaping about and running around while covered in blood, many many evil glares and energy reserve-mustering roars, weird weird weird ness, and lots of rain and dark shots where you cant see sh*t.
i liked it. im going to show it to some friends and see what they make of it. for some reason, and i cant put my finger on why, it feels like an odd amalgamation of different styles. it reminded me of all these different films and series' that ive seen, and really to be honest, i just like that it doesnt really tell you what the f*ck just happened.
there isnt a great deal of character development for anyone, yet i liked them all. it isnt particularly colourful or shot with any great unique feeling but i still found it aesthetically interesting. it isnt full of comedy but i still found it somehow warm and funny. the action was a little dire but it wasnt offputting at all and ended up really gripping. how on earth did they make this film? did it just sprout up out of nowhere as unfathomably as choin's powers?
ooo dongwon is such a creepy bad guy. what a face for it though. i like it when they cast really pretty actors as the bad guys. when they get all covered in sh*t they tend to look so evil. i really love it when they do that with female nasty characters but it is kind of rare to see. cute makes good evil i say. both girl or guy, the girlier the faces the cooler they look when theyre all mental and screaming.
i have literally just finished this film, and im stumped for what to say about it. it needs to be watched on a tv not my sh*t laptop with its terrible pixilating avi player. i would say do the film justice by not having a sh*t copy of it. it is so dark you need a good quality version to watch to be able to see what the hell is going on.
ive no idea what sort of reviews this movie normally gets, i dont even know how well this movie did when it came out - it was only released nov 2010 so in terms of online pressence (downloads and streams) it hasnt had an epic amount of time to circulate exactly. but enough for it to be out there anyway. i think i might have to watch it again soon with some other people and see what i think of it on a second viewing.
**update**
**BIG FAT-ASS SPOILERS**
**DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED IT YET**
right, it seems people didnt get this film at all from doing a quick look at other peoples reviews. lots of people liked the weirdness and style, but no-one seemed to understand the ending. ok, people - the guy that cant die - CANT DIE. he uses his will to live to heal himself and he uses his will to protect people to defy his body in order to do so. the reason this isnt explained in the movie is that he doesnt really even know this himself.
The reason choin is all *its all youre fault im killing people* is because (as suggested by his wads of money) his life has become pretty stable - he controls people who have money to give him money so he has money - i fail to see why its hard to understand that the moment kyunam cant be controlled and confronts him choin's whole world falls apart. he is a little nut bar, he's gonna go nuts a kill people in his frustrated search to off the only person he has ever met who could really seriously stop him.
what is so f*cking hard to understand about that?
maybe the movie could have done with just a tad more character development then. you know. for those who want it all spelt out for them.
**end of rant**
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