WARSAW KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL - KOREANSKIE KINO LETNIE (KOREAN SUMMER CINEMA)
용의자 (THE SUSPECT) (2013)
Watchable. I was about 2 minutes late but the reason why I couldn't grasp the plot was rather action overload. It was only about 20 minutes in that they started explaining the story. But a huge number of characters from the start, with some more added later, makes is hard to make out who is who and what's going on. Typically for Korean cinematography, there's some extreme brutality, as we see in the torture scene. The last half an hour is the best and offers the best out of quite a few humorous scenes in the movie where the agent escorting a prisoner informs the captured: "I'm going to buy some fags. Wait here."
아저씨 (THE MAN FROM NOWHERE) (2010)
Watchable. Similar to previous: the protagonist has lost his wife and daughter, the flick consists of action overload and some perverse brutality - no humour in this one, a few tear-jerking moments instead.
성난황소 (UNSTOPPABLE) (2018)
Watchable. Another brutal thriller, though here the wife is abducted, not killed, there's no child, nor is the protagonist an agent. This movie has a consistent storyline, while not 100% comprehensible to me, at least not overly complex. 이동석 (Ma Dong-seok) predictably brings some humour. But the one absolutely hilarious bit is the one during the end credits when you hear the TV news on the trawler which had been withheld by the Chinese. The remaining sequence is a wonderful finale.
A new weekend of Korean Summer Cinema is coming. 5-7 July will see spy movies - a genre in which Koreans excel so I'm really looking forward to it.
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