![]() ![]() ![]() And Choi Woo-shik, the son (and end credits song performer!) from PARASITE, makes a really good villain, trying to terrorize her with his smugness and K-pop looks (plus super powers). The scene where they say goodbye to each other got me. It’s a really good cast, investing real emotion in the situation with these parents and the mother’s sickness, and especially in the friendship of the girls, and the sadness of Myung-hee seeing her friend kill a bunch of dudes and not understanding what’s going on. Baek and her people recognized her on TV and are trying to get her back, various fashionable men who are somehow involved are going around committing murders, and eventually these things will all come to a head. Obviously she’s some kind of experiment who escaped, Dr. Myung-hee takes it as flirting at first, but Ja-yoon seems to sense that he’s threatening her. He says cryptic things to her, some in English. There’s a great scene where they’re on the train to Seoul stuffing their faces with hard boiled eggs when a dreamy boy (Choi Woo-shik, TRAIN TO BUSAN, OKJA, PARASITE) starts laughing at them and claiming to know Ja-yoon. But she continues with the competition, with Myung-hee acting as her excited biggest fan and manager, talking her up to strangers.Ī big chunk of the movie is this melodrama about the competition and things (such as her mother’s dementia-related confusion) hinting to her about her secret past, with the underlying mystery of her migraines and powers acting as the ticking bomb under the table. By her parents’ response when they see it, we can sense that this is something she shouldn’t be doing on TV. She’s a good singer but her gimmick is that she also does “magic” during her act. “Stop playing with those cows and watch TV for once, bitch!” Her best friend Myung-hee (Go Min-si) – who she humorously bickers with – convinces her she could make money by auditioning for an American Idol style singing show she’s never heard of. She doesn’t seem to remember whatever her traumatic past was, but frequently has migraines, and worries about her parents’ financial troubles and her mom’s symptoms of Alzheimer’s. I hope 15 years from now if people use these colors on posters again it’s considered an homage to the JOHN WICK era of action movies.Ī middle aged couple (Choi Jung-woo and Oh Mi-hee ) find the girl on their farm, get her medical attention, and ten years later they’re raising her as their daughter Ja-yoon (Kim Da-mi). Choi (Park Hee-soon, THE AGE OF SHADOWS). Baek (Jo Min-su, PIETÀ) and her gum-chewing head of security Mr. She’s covered in blood too, as is the little boy her age who apparently tried to stop her, only to fail and be criticized by the adults in charge, Dr. style (pursued by men with dogs and flashlights). Apparently this was done by an 8-year-old girl who is fleeing into the woods E.T. ![]() type movie – teen melodrama X-MEN – except, like so many of the other South Korean movies I’ve seen, it gets horrifically violent at times.įor example in the opening scene in a laboratory where everything – the walls, the floors, the security guards, a child’s teddy bear, a body under a tarp – are slathered in blood. Some melodrama, some sci-fi, some carnage. I did initially assume it would be horror, then I heard it was action, but it turns out to be something harder to categorize. I wish I could tell you this was a crass DTV sequel to THE VVITCH. For this one Park Hoon-jung is also the director, as he’s done with several other films I haven’t seen, including the gangster movie NEW WORLD (2013). I watched THE WITCH: SUBVERSION after I heard a few good things and read that it’s from the guy who wrote the incredibly upsetting but badass I SAW THE DEVIL. ![]()
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