Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Happiness (Movie-2007)






Directed by
Heo Jin-ho
Produced by 
Jo Sung-woo (executive producer)
Kang Bong-rae
Eugene Lee
Written by
Heo Jin-ho
Lee Suk-yeon
Seo You-min
Shin Joo-ho
Starring 
Hwang Jung-min
Im Su-jeong
Music by 
Jo Sung-woo
Editing by 
Choi Jae-geun
Running time
124 min.

* Hwang Jung-min as Yeong-su
* Im Su-jeong as Eun-hye

Yeong su adalah seorang lelaki yang hobynya bersenang-senang di club dan minum (maksudnya minum bir, soju, arak, dan lainnya). Apalagi setelah ia putus dari pacarnya Su Yeon. Ia menjadi alkoholic dan itu membuat ia terkena penyakit cukup parah. Akhirnya Yeong Su pergi ke suatu desa yang tenang. Di desa itu ada rumah perawatan bagi orang-orang yang memiliki sakit yang cukup parah.

Awalnya Yeong Su tidak bisa beradaptasi dengan lingkungan di sana. Mungkin karena ia belum terbiasa dengan kehidupan desa yang sederhana. Namun karena Eun Hye, gadis perawat di rumah itu, perlahan-lahan Yeong Su mulai bisa bergaul dengan pasien lainnya. Eun Hye adalah gadis yang ramah dan friendly. Makannya Yeong Su pun tertarik padanya. Tapi ternyata Eun Hye juga mempunyai penyakit yang cukup parah.

Seiring berjalannya waktu, hubungan Yeong Su dan Eun Hye pun berkembang seiring berjalannya waktu. Mereka menjadi sepasang kekasih dan bahkan memutuskan untuk tinggal bersama. Namun setelah sekian lama mereka tinggal bersama, Yeong Su mulai merasa jenuh dengan rutinitas yang ia jalani. Apalagi ditambah denga kedatangan mantan kekasihnya, Su Yeon, hatinya mulai tergoyah. Yeong Su akhirnya memutuskan untuk meninggalkan Eun Hye dan kembali ke kota untuk tinggal bersama Su Yeon.

Sebenernya pada awalnya aku ngerasa bosen nonton film ini. Tapi menjelang akhir mulai terasa bagus dan mengharukan. Suka banget ma aktingnya Im So Jung di film ini. Kasian, dari awal ampe akhir menderita. Tapi itulah yang bikin film ini jadi bagus. Setidaknya dia pernah ngerasain apa itu Happiness walau sebentar. Sedih.....




Sunday, November 15, 2009

White Badge: Survival Is Not Always a Reward


Americans know all about the Vietnam War. They also know something about the Korean one. Yet they probably know nothing about South Korea's role in the former, a participation that was both alongside U.S. troops and at their behest. And if Vietnam remains a haunting conflict in American consciousness, it also appears to have wreaked havoc on the Korean psyche as well. In his allegorical fright flick R-Point, director Kong Su-chang equates that war's terrors to supernatural horrors; in White Badge, Jeong Ji-yeong takes a much more naturalistic approach by exorcising those same demons in a grimly nostalgic memory piece. Grounded by a terrific performance by Ahn Sung-kee as a heavy drinking journalist reluctantly writing a novel about his experiences in Vietnam, White Badge neither shies away from the absurdities of the battlefield (the troops mistake a herd of water buffalo for the enemy) nor minimizes the psychic damage to the soldiers who survive. (Pfc. Pyon (Lee Kyeong-yeong) is a basket case unable to salvage his relationship with a prostitute who was his wartime pen pal.) Children as scavengers, bulletproof panties, the paparazzi of the frontlines... White Badge's imagery is so rich, it really does insist on repeated viewings.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

The City of Violence: A Mediocre Movie That Packs Extra Punch


More than one not-so-hot movie has been rescued by a flashy martial arts finale. Ryu Seung-wan's The City of Violence takes this approach to the extreme: Every fifteen minutes or so comes another playfully shot, precisely choreographed battle that's as visceral as it is gymnastic. There's one great free-for-all in a police station, an unrelenting rumble with an ever-growing street crowd of baseball players, break dancers, and the girls' field hockey team, and an extended fight-to-the-finish that incorporates sliding doors, hilarious hair-pulling and one suddenly fingerless hand. The connection between all this killing and the founding of a casino feels negligible at best and the villain (Lee Beom-su) is neither clever nor charismatic. But ultimately, the WHY behind each punch and kick proves irrevelant. Every time Seok-hwan (Ryu) and his buddy, the detective Tae-su (Jung Doo-hong who's also the fight choreographer), decide to exact physical revenge on behalf of their old pal Wang-jae (Ahn Kil-Kang), you're too busy admiring the roundhouse kicks and wincing at the mouthfuls of blood to worry about something as simple as character motivation. If you need more than fisticuffs, focus on the costumes and the sets which are also thoughtfully executed.

Friday, November 6, 2009

...ing (Movie - 2003)


Directed by Lee Eon-hee (이언희)
Screenplay by Kim Jin (김진)
•Drama •Romance
102min | Release date in South Korea : 2003/11/28

Kim Rae-won 김래원
Im Soo-jeong 임수정
Lee Mi-sook 이미숙

Synopsis

Min Ah adalah seorang gadis pendiam dan penyendiri, Ia terbiasa sendiri karena ia merasa berbeda dengan yang lain. Sejak kecil ia sudah mempunyai penyakit yang cukup parah sehingga ia lebih sering menjalani perawatan di rumah sakit daripada bergaul dengan teman sebayanya. Selain itu ia juga punya kelainan pada tangannya sehingga ia selalu menggunakan sarung tangan.

Teman satu-satunya Min Ah adalah Mi Sook yaitu ibunya sendiri. Ia terbiasa memanggil ibunya dengan nama Mi Sook daripada memanggilnya dengan sebutan Ibu karena dengan begitu Min Ah merasakan mempunyai teman.

Suatu hari Min Ah kedatangan tetangga baru. Tetangga itu adalah seorang photographer bernama Young Jae. Tingkah Young Jae yang gampang akrab membuat Min Ah menaruh perhatian padanya. Akhirnya hubungan mereka pun semakin dekat.

Menurutku film ini cukup bagus. Apalagi cerita tentang si ibu anak Min Ah dan Mi Sook. Kerasa banget ma deh tema familynya. Apalagi pas adegan terakhir, pas Mi Sook menggenggam tangannya Min Ah ketika di rumah sakit. Adegan saat itu di foto oleh Young Jae dan fotonya dipajang dipameran foto. Di foto tersebut terlihat tangan Min Ah yang tidak memakai sarung tangan sedang menggenggam tangan sang Ibu. Kesan dari foto tersebut tuh kerasa banget kalo ibu anak itu saling menyayangi. Bagus deh.








Sunday, November 1, 2009

Album Korean Drama OST





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Saturday, October 31, 2009

No Mercy for the Rude: Turn Your Gaydar on the Tight-Lipped Killer

No Mercy for the Rude secretly wants to be a gay movie. Take a look at its protagonist (Shin Ha-kyun). He's a fashion-conscious assassin who wears leather underwear and whose best friend (Kim Min-jun) used to dance ballet. And if he's not gay then why's this mute, murdering poet always fighting off the advances of that horny nightclub singer (Yun Ji-hye)? Why's the only way he can have a son to find a stray boy on the street? He's also suspiciously over-concerned about the length of his... tongue. (This last part is supposedly the cause of his lisp!) And isn't it more than a little weird that he's consulted the local urologist about his speech impediment? Do straight guys associate the mouth with the penis? I don't think so. Then what's going on here?! The way he kills men isn't gay. That's for sure. But he does hold his victims in a tight embrace while stabbing them. Probably writer-director Park Cheol-hie was just too scared to make an outright queer movie. He's subconsciously piling on homoerotic tidbits left and right but in the end, No Mercy for the Rude keeps its hero straight. Someone should get Park a date with a man. That way his next screenplay's hero won't have an inability to say "I love you."

Album Korean Movie OST

Big Bang (Password : www.asianload.com)
Love Phobia  (Password : www.asianload.com)
My 11th Mother
mmmy Blach Minni Dress

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note :
ada beberapa ost yang membutuhkan password,
password : dramafreak atau thankyou
maaf, aku lupa yang mana aja ost yang ada passwordnya