Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

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Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Tweekums This South Korean animation opens just after bankrupt businessman Kyung-min has murdered his wife, after showering he calls Jong-suk; an old friend he hadn't spoken to since they were in middle school together. They meet up for a drink and start reminiscing about their time at school. These weren't good times; the children of wealthy parents were allowed to lord it over the others with impunity and nobody did a thing about it… until one day when Kyung-min was being bullied a boy at the back of the class stood up and told the bully to stop. The bully hits him but unlike the others who just take it he fights back. This boy is Chul and he will change Jong-suk and Kyung-min forever. The violence doesn't stop but when the bullies who run the school try to put Chul in his place he just strikes back harder. Eventually Chul is expelled but that doesn't stop his determination to make sure those boys who seem the run the school will never look back on their school days with happiness.This may be an animated film but it certainly isn't for children; the violence may not be extreme but it is brutally believable. There are no truly sympathetic characters; we know Kyung-min has murdered his wife and see Jong-suk striking his in the opening scenes and following Chul's lead they stab and kill a cat during the prolonged flashback to their school days. The animation style also served to increase the sense of brutality; it had a deliberately ugly look unlike the western and most of the Japanese animation that I've seen. There is a constant feeling that things won't end well and indeed they don't but not in the way I'd expected.Overall I'd definitely recommend this film although I'm not sure I'd want to watch it again in a hurry as it is so downbeat. This belongs up there with 'Lord of the Flies' when it comes to stories about just how savage children can be.

Patryk Czekaj A haunting, hard-hitting animation about the problem of class struggle in South Korea and its disastrous connection to bullying. With its nightmarish art direction, it stimulates many radical emotions in the viewer, assaulting him with a most sombre tale of an atrocious past.Two men struggling with domestic issues of their own meet after 15 years and reminisce about their extremely difficult school days. Their childhood was gradually being destroyed because of the ongoing, enormous and brutal pressure from the rich kids who ruled the school-grounds and often resolved to in-class violence. The fact that everybody around pretends that this horrible activity didn't even exist only made the whole issue worse and caused the richer kids to be even more confident of their impunity. The boys' last and only hope was their brave yet ferocious classmate Chul. He proved to be the only kid who wasn't afraid to stand up against the terror and tried to fight back using even more violence than his oppressors. Without any help from the outside the three friends came up with a most shocking plan - Chul will commit a public suicide. Without any hope for a brighter future they though of this extreme scheme as they only means to notifying the impassive adults about the horrible incidents that occur behind the school walls everyday. Apart from evaluating the boys' decisions and presenting their differing viewpoints on the situation - and on what's about to happen - the film also reveals a grand mystery in its final act.The plot is inspired by the director's dream, where his two friends decide to commit suicide as a revenge act for all the evil that's happened to them in the past.The King of Pigs is a mightily dark and obscure anime, where horrible reality merges with confusing visions, only to deliver a stupendously convincing message to the Korean nation. Through the story of two men it shows that many childhood traumas have terrible lifelong effects. Memories are deceiving, but they play an important role in determining how people cope with their lives.

S_Craig_Zahler although this received some good press and was supported by the excellent folks at subway cinema, this movie is heavy-handed, monotonous and badly made junk. i suppose it would be a novelty to somebody who has never seen adult animation, but otherwise don't waste your time. if you want smart and rich adult animation, go watch heavy traffic (bakshi), berserk, shigurui, my neighbors the yamadas, ghost in the shell: innocence or porco rosso.the king of pigs animation combines limited, inconsistent and ugly drawings (like king of the hill and beavis and butt head) with rotoscoping (tracing) and bad computer generated models. i saw this on the big screen and the animation is definitely the worst i've ever seen for a theatrical film-- and i saw cool world when it came out.like many bad korean movies, it is monotonously mean and there are stupid twists that undo the limited amount of characterization the writing provided (see also: the good the bad and the weird, the host, shiru). the characters are dull and one dimensional, the scenes are repetitive, the animation is awful and the overall experience tedious.

Mozjoukine Serious animation is no longer a novelty but the bleakness of this Korean toon is disturbing.Leaving a girl with a rope mark on her neck, the bespectacled lead 'phones the old school pal, who is having domestic troubles of his own. During their night drinking and walking together, we see flashbacks to their school days, where they were at the bottom layer of a brutal system of bullying.The director's first feature is done with limited movement and only occasional flashes of striking imagery - the animal headed class mates, the ugly ghost cat, simulated afternoon light. Using female voices for the boys is also alienating. The film is so intense that viewers are likely to forget the exposition and find themselves unsatisfied by the rapid wind-up.Think of this as a curious companion to the similarly themed OLD BOY and part of the country's ultra-violence cycle, among which it is a stand out.