Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Beautiful Korean Movie 2008



Starring: Cha Soo Yeon and Lee Chun Hee.

Rating: R, nudity, violence, some disturbing images

Synopsis: We follow the story of a girl, Eun Young (played by Cha Soo Yeon), who finds her life miserable because of the attention and loneliness her irresistible beauty brings her. Because of this beauty she procures stalkers and one of them stalks her to her apartment and rapes her. He says "I did it just because you are so beautiful." She then believes that her beauty is what caused her to become the victim of rape and that in order to survive she must change the way she appears, but changing your looks is not as easy as it sounds. Lee Chun Hee plays the rookie police officer trying to help her.

My thoughts: The common thinking is that beauty can make things easier for us, this movie shows us it can actually be our demise. What we think of beauty is not the only side to it; there's an ugly side to it too.

The actors in this movie were superb. I read comments after that people didn't find the "intense beauty" in the main actress like she was supposed to have, but I disagree. I thought she was very beautiful in every shape and form, which was the point; that it didn't matter what she did to herself she was still found to be extremely beautiful.

Word of caution, this movie is dark. It didn't leave me with an intense sadness like there's no hope in the world let's all go shoot ourselves kind of feeling, so that's a plus. It did leave me with a WTF did I just watch feeling though, but despite that I'd watch it again. Don't ask me why (I guess I like dark-themed material).

My conclusion: 

Watch 

Not Watch