Saturday, August 19, 2017

Film [Real] final "Ballet" Scene


 Obviously, [Real] (2017) is one of the worst Korean films - note that I used "is" instead of "is considered as". I cannot find hard to believe that any person would think this film is on par with some other films.

 It is true that [Real] has few interesting bits. If anyone comes to realize intentions of director-writer, then there are things that make sense. Especially how the writer was managed to "equalize" two characteristics physically (wounds, etc.) and psychologically. Except, these interesting details are not going to do any improvement on executions of this film.

 There are some people who say that the film needs more explanations - but even when cutting out some unnecessary scenes, especially involving women (this film should really be condemned for its portrayal and "character use" of women), these more explanations would make the already-very-boring film a yawn inducer.

 That is, this film is simply one of worst because it causes boredom in an unexpected way - its only accomplishment.

 And of course comes this ballet (?) fight scene which causes small laughter for some people - not because the scene is funny but because the scene appears out of nowhere. But ironically this scene actually is the best scene of the film, if we decide to ignore the story plot. True, this scene... is horrible, but then if the film consisted only of this part, at least it works as a nice dance...... I don't know how to provide any meaningful thing to this scene, but then at least it captures your mind for its "ordinary" grotesqueness. (The film is distastefully grotesque in general, and this scene is the only scene that is not distasteful.)

 Anyway really a non-serious just-for-fun post. And the film overall had the taste of being written by someone in extreme stress and wanted to go crazy. I know this because I sometimes felt like that.

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Addition: Action scenes are beyond terrible. You will see what that means when you watch the film. Plus, for this "but the messages of the film were great":

The messages are (I used "is" instead of "are" intentionally below):

"Who is you - the spirit that occupies your body, or the spirit that used to own your body? Who is you - the one that you wanted to be, or the one that you actually are?"

OK. A proper response to this is: SO WHAT? In philosophy, you can think about free will, Nietzsche and so on, but this film really has nothing to do with these things. The film simply hovers around the messages and does nothing. It is film's grotesqueness that makes you think that the film has unique messages, when it really has nothing of that sort. It simply has no message and no story. You just have a crazy person dancing at the end.

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