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Leave everything in your hands and head straight to watch this absolutely amazing movie

On an ordinary day, the Incheon Airport Bridge turns into a terrifying battlefield when heavy fog hits, leading to a series of devastating accidents. As the survivors try to understand what is happening, a pack of mutated military dogs is released and begins hunting humans mercilessly. In the midst of this chaos stands Cha Jung-won, a government official who finds himself having to fight for his life and the life of his young daughter, Cha Kyung-min.
Tensions quickly escalate as the attacks escalate, as father and daughter face not only the brutality of military dogs, but also the collapse of the bridge infrastructure. Every passing moment becomes a test of their resilience, as they discover that the fog is not the only threat, but that there are greater and more dangerous forces behind this disaster.

With outstanding direction and stunning cinematography, “Project Silence” takes you on a journey of tension and fear. The nightmarish atmosphere that the film creates makes you feel as if you are trapped on that cursed bridge, trying to survive at any cost.
The film combines high-tension action scenes with emotional relationships between father and daughter, adding human depth to the story. It also addresses themes such as sacrifice and resilience in the face of great risks. Cha Kyung-min appears as a brave and determined girl, and she plays a crucial role in the group's survival, making her character one of the bright spots in this exciting film.

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It's just very bad recap

I didn't expect much from this movie as I've read all your reviews before watching it but it still left me totally disappointed...
My main issue with it is that I can't really grasp which audience directors had in mind - for fans like me it should contain more new scenes, not only some crumbs and I defo wouldn't recommend this for a new people as editing was such a mess and everything what I loved in the series wasn't here, it felt totally dry and hectic. It isn't even good as a short "recap" cuz all best scenes, all teasing and magic is gone. Soooo... If you want to watch new scenes just watch the beginning and ending and if you are interested in 2gether just go watch the series and don't waste your time for this.

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a movie everyone needs to see.

Review in Portuguese:
Um filme que exala beleza, um filme que é extremamente humano, traumas que temos no passado pode mudar a gente no presente, criando uma nova personalidade por trás disso.

O filme entrou pro meu top 1, não é muito do que falar, virou meu filme favorito e o melhor que eu já vi. Um filme sentimental que trás a todos uma mensagem sobre superar um trauma, passamos o filme vendo o protagonista conhecido como Diretor onde ele conhece uma Garota que não sabemos o nome durante o filme inteiro. O Diretor quer fazer o seu filme, por isso que ele fica filmando o seu dia a dia com a Garota.

Esse filme teve o mesmo sentimento que eu tive com "O Menino e a Garça", você cria um mundo da sua cabeça para escapar do seu trauma, a Garota faz isso basicamente "matando" as coisas ruins de sua mente, escapando do verdadeiro e do real. Mas, sabemos que isso não pode durar para sempre, e é exatamente isso que rola ao decorrer do filme.

"Amanhã é meu aniversário."

A Garota cria uma dependência com o Diretor, já que ele basicamente ficou com ela durante 30 dias, até a chegada de sua Mãe onde queria o seu perdão.

A melhor cena para mim nesse filme, é quando a garota começa a surtar, onde ela quebra tudo e sai correndo que nem louca. Detalhe disso tudo é a música tocando de fundo, você se sente angustiado pensando o que pode rolar daqui para frente, a música fica o tempo todo rolando quando ela quebra tudo.

A Garota tenta escapar de seu passado, criando o seu próprio mundo imaginário, apesar do que ela diz a si mesma, a família da garota está viva, ela provavelmente não foi tocada em nenhum momento, só ao longo de seus anos vivendo com a sua mãe, ela foi insultada, culpada e comparada, não recebeu o respeito ou mesmo a validação como uma pessoa que ela merece, o que acabou afetando ela durante esse tempo.
A razão pela qual ela não ter pulou daquele telhado pode muito bem ser devido às mentiras que ela continuou contando a si mesma e todo o seu "ritual" que ela faz.

Necessitamos de alguém em nossa vida, a Garota precisa do Diretor para conseguir superar os seus traumas. Somos seres vulneráveis, podemos surtar a qualquer momento, podemos ficar tristes a qualquer momento. Só que, para mim, esse filme ensina que você pode superar seus traumas, o filme ensina que com alguém ao seu lado, você possa superar algo. Pode demorar muito, mas você consegue superar.

Hideaki Anno é um mestre na direção, a cinematografia desse filme é linda, bonita e azul.

As atuações desse filme são espetaculares demais, Shunji Iwai e Ayako Fujitani são bons atores, Shunji manda muito bem na atuação, mesmo sendo algo simples... Quem brilha mesmo é a Fujitani, toda o ódio, loucura e tristeza ela consegue fazer isso de forma linda.

Talvez eu seja muito otimista durante esse filme todo para dá uma nota tão alta, mas esse filme me cativou muito. Espero que mais pessoas assistam e curtam o filme.

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*kurenaida intensifies* (e por que você vai querer saber)

sabe por que não devemos deixar crianças conversarem com pessoas estranhas? porque nem todo mundo é um gostosão da yakuza com o coração mole & pavor de tatuagens feias.

é disso que trata o filme: uma amizade altamente perigosa (porque improvável e obviamente absurda) entre um estudante cínico (mas razoavelmente bom em estudo de voz), e um adulto que faz parte de um crime organizado, cuja principal objetivo neste momento da vida é dominar uma boa canção no karaokê.

juro por deus - e talvez eu seja simples demais, mas - passei uma das minhas melhores manhãs assistindo a esta comédia. provavelmente vou reassistir daqui a pouco. e você deveria fazer o mesmo (!! ?). mas isto é apenas um convite (: rsrshehe

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"I don't have time to get mad anymore"

Filipina director Mae Cruz Alviar and writer Enrico Santos put their own stamp on the relationship time travel trope. They didn’t break new ground but they did commit to their story and characters in a way that came across as authentic.

Mary and John have been married for years and have a son together. Mary still deeply loves John and has built her world around helping him to fly while John has become selfish and angry. John never has time for her or their son, Austin, especially after Austin failed to make the football team. Austin tells his dad that Lodz has been talking with him and that everything is going to work out, his dad just has to figure out what he really wants. John asks who Lodz is and Austin shows him a picture of Jesus. When Mary dies the next day, John has his own meeting with Lodz who has a proposition for the guilt-ridden man.

John had a little over a day to put things right and save Mary. Not really long enough to have a complete personality change and to its credit the film showed John faltering at his first challenge. He was smacked upside his head with what was really of value in his life and how much time he’d wasted thinking only of work and himself. The people around him had suffered and been starved of his affection and attention. Mary was a skilled chef and she wanted to fly. Austin was a gifted pianist ready to fly if given the chance as well. John’s eyes were opened to the love and happiness he’d been shutting out for years and how badly he’d hurt his family.

Few people are given second chances and John learned about redemption, accountability, and regret in a crash course delivered by an electrician to help him see the light. Normally, this is the type of film I’d give a 7.5 to for being a good average movie, but I bumped it up for the commitment the filmmakers showed until the end to not take the easy way out.

11 August 2024

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SUCH A GOOD KDRAMA OR MORE OF A MOVIE

This kdrama was such a fun drama that I watched this drama or actually movie twice. Not only the movie was nice but also the people who acted in it. Like the boy is so handsome and the woman is so beautiful and young. I think it's a shame that the girl only knew that the boy had died after 15 years. I also really like the chemistry between the two. The boy was afraid of heights but still went into the attraction to tell her his feelings. The letter he had written for her was a really beautiful letter that really brought a tear to my eye. Bo-ra went on a blind date and that man said the same thing as her ex which made her cry, I felt really bad for her. She and her friends are so sweet to each other, they had a fight with each other, but they still gave a lot of hugs. I'm glad the girl had the hard operation. The music style of this drama is also very good but not the best. I would definitely watch this film drama again for the third time, this was my own little review, hopefully it helped you, I definitely recommend watching this drama, I shed a few tears myself, but now I'm really saying goodbye BYE PS CHIARA PLACENTI

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It’s just a fun compilation of different characters dying because they were unlucky enough to step foot in the cursed house. - more or less that’s the plot.

If this is your first Ju-On movie, you won’t get much history and background of the curse and how it was born. There are some hints, but they do not serve as a cohesive set up for the story. That said, I strongly believe we don’t need that here.

In horror less often means more, especially if we talk about the supernatural. The harder the story tries to explain things, the more convoluted and boring it gets. I appreciate how we get none of that here. Just a creepy lady with a creepy meowing kid killing people because they are pissed about their crap life. That kid… personally scared me more than the pro yoga mother rolling down the stairs.

It’s short, but effective for a midnight watch in a dark room.

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Who are you - the question we don’t have an answer to.

Realistically speaking, I understood around 80% of the movie. There are many things that are just hinted at, especially about the details of the resolutions/conclusions. Does it bother me? No. If anything, it makes me more interested in potential rewatch to see if I missed anything. The movie presents a lot of questions, but not all the answers.

How much do we change and curate ourselves to match social expectations and responsibilities set by the roles we decide to take? On the other hand, is following our desires the true freedom or just another cage? Driven by desires or led by society - where is the freedom in both, where is the place for personal choices?

These are the questions I kept thinking about while watching Cure. It also reminded me that we as humans love to simplify everything - binary thinking is easier. Extreme solution to mundane problems - that’s how I saw the freedom Mamiya was spreading. Momentary freedom that led to more restraints. Because living is not as simple as always doing what others expect you to do, nor is it simply following your current needs. Forcing others to adhere to your narrow definition of freedom is not setting them free, it’s just taking the leash in your own hands and controlling them by your own standards.

Cure is a great psychological mystery that masterfully crafts the tension. The longer I watched, the more I wanted to get the answers, but by the end, I was fine with still wondering. Strangely it felt as if I was given the freedom to find my own conclusion. It’s not a typical crime movie where we want to know who did it. Rather, we desperately try to figure out why it was done. It’s slow and atmospheric.

With a script like that you need charismatic actors to pull it off. And I was blessed with Yakusho Koji’s performance as Takabe Kenichi - a detective and husband, who struggles with maintaining these two roles, slowly cracking under the pressure. Hagiwara Masato as Mamiya Kunihiko was simply terrifying. Something about that detached, but piercing presence made me feel extremely uncomfortable.

Editing and production was truly perfect. From longer and uncut scenes that created the tension, or the quick cut flashes of moments and frames, that in addition to giving important clues, served as a good indicator of the shift of perspective and the connections the main lead made.

Overall, highly recommend to all the folks who liked to be asked questions and not get conclusive answers, making your own brain do the work. Less investigation, more philosophical. Slow pace might deter some people from watching - proper watching conditions might be the key to enjoyment.

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Interesting plot but the overall impact falls short

This is one of the rare shows I occasionally watch impulsively after seeing a short-form video highlighting Suzy and Park BoGum's story. At first, I actually thought it was a series and thought that the main story was about Suzy and BoGum but as it turns out, their story is just one of the mini-stories within the bigger picture of the movie.

Personally, I think the premise is really interesting and I do love sci-fi. I've watched a couple of K-movies that made me change my mind positively towards their films (like Space Sweeper, etc.), but this one falls short for me. The plot seems to be underdeveloped. I didn't feel as immersed as usual because I think the key with the sci-fi genre is the storytelling that makes you believe it can be a reality -- in the not-so-far future or even if it can't be, it's at least emotionally relatable. I feel like I needed a lot more context to feel the characters fully.

It was kind of disappointing specially seeing some star-studded Halyu star faces. I felt like their potential was not maximized more than how we usually see them on other shows. Still I feel like it's a decent watch. The CGI is definitely high quality -- not the best but better than most.

This still could be a good weekend watch. Might be something you would enjoy. Personally, after watching a lot of shows, I felt like being a critic that minor details feels off for me.

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Right person, not enough time

Yall better get ready for a bucket of tears because it's a bittersweet movie. It's about two 17 year old people who are going to die, one of them is dying in 6 months while the other one will die in a year. They met each other on the hospital rooftop and then forward Ren started visiting Natsuki in the hospital. He would bring her 5 flowers (gerbas) every day every time he visited her. I'll stop spoiling it here but from then forward you will have a bucket of tears at the end of the movie because it's the fact they both died and left Mayuu on her own. I'm so sad that they didn't confess to each other that they liked each other, but atleast they would get some time in heaven together. I absolutely recommend this movie if you're into sad love stories. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS!!!!!!!!!

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[Spoilers!!] A Mini Rant Review

Overall, a good movie. Great Casting, especially loved Wi Ha-Joon's & Jin Ki-Joo's acting.
The jumpscares [especially the scenes inside Kyeong Mi's House] made the movie absolutely thrilling + the background Ost. [Atleast In my Opinion]

[☆Mini Rant as a review☆] [Spoilers Ahead!]

The story was good but I wish they gave Do Shik a more in-depth Back Story or at least gave him one. Do Shik [The Character] had a lot more potential than just dying in the end.
I wish they revealed more about his motive behind killing people... How he ended up like this... Why he's continuing in this path...

The Police Station Scene where The drunk man mentions his Family looked like it triggered him. Wish they make a Prequel movie on his Back Story.

Plus the Scene where Kyeong Mi rushes to explain to Do Shik about her Life Plans and him just listening to her ??‍?
Could have ended the movie at the part where he drags her away after that convo, allowing the audience to speculate on the ending, maybe even allowing them to create a part 2 movie that expands a bit more on the story.
I did like the plot twist ending but it wasn't exactly satisfying either.

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In 1958, Japan passed the Prostitution Prevention Law and began shutting down the red-light districts. Street walkers were sent to “care shelters” to be rehabilitated. As I watched the opening for Girls of the Night aka Girl of the Dark, I’ll be honest I was afraid this was going to be reminiscent of the Irish Magdalene Laundries known for their cruel and abusive treatment of the “fallen” girls confined there. What I found instead was that the Shiragiku Ladies Dormitory had the least judgmental and most supportive people the former sex trade workers assigned there would encounter. This story followed the challenges Kuniko, a former prostitute, would face as she ventured out in ‘pure’ and ‘polite’ society to find respectable work.

Mrs. Nogami, the headmistress of the Shiragiku Dormitory finds Kuniko work as a live-in worker at a shop. No one there knows what Kuniko used to do for a living. Her boss works her from morning until night and after her living allowance is subtracted from her wages Kuniko will only be making 10, 000 yen/68 USD a year. After her past is revealed, the shopkeeper is determined to demean and replace Kuniko. Rather than be humiliated and taken advantage of, Kuniko takes the situation literally into her own hands. At her next job in a factory, Kuniko tries another tactic and reveals her past to the women in the dormitory. Instead of being supportive her female co-workers violated Kuniko in a disturbingly violent scene. At her third job she finds love, but also runs into the limitations of societal forgiveness and acceptance.

Girls of the Night was one of the few films from this time that was both directed and written by women. Tanaka Kinuyo filmed a fairly progressive film given the timing of the new law. Far from condemning the ex-prostitutes, the film tried to show that the majority of the women sold their bodies due to tragic situations pressuring them from society, family, or personal relationships. Mrs. Nogami time and again supported Kuniko and the other women in her care. When Kuniko asked why it had been okay for her to use her body as she wished before and now it was illegal, Mrs. Nogami had no good answer for her. Girls of the Night also had a lesbian character in a small supporting role, the first I’ve run across in this era. Whether due to the source material or concerns of how the audience would receive the film, they did hedge their bets by having Kuniko be harshly critical of her own past actions and decisions.

The pure and polite society Kuniko interacted with might not have had to sell their bodies to make a living but they also showed they were far from the moral ideal. Kuniko had more than her share of encounters with vile humans but she also found healing in the people who accepted her. The most important person she had to convince that her past could be forgiven was herself. Tanaka’s 5th film in the director’s chair once again showed Mizoguchi Kenji was wrong and that she was quite smart enough to direct a film.

10 August 2024

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