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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Biyeolhan geori (A Dity Carnival) (2006)
Next up was A Dirty Carnival, a South Korean gangster flick with heart.
Obviously low-budget, I was feeling a little detached from the drama unfolding on screen. But from nowhere the film surprised me with a sudden visceral burst of extreme violence. Fist on flesh kind of stuff. Perhaps a few spinning round-house kicks, but nothing that looked too out of the ordinary for our hero - well played by In-seong Jo - which reminded me of the natural fighting talents of Phanom Yeeram (Tony Jaa) in Ong-Bak.
A Soundtrack fueled by a pseudo-Greek waltz on the accordian lent the film a world-weary air, although within the film were strategic set-piece musical sequences as each main character had a go in expressing themselves through karaoke.
This was a film within a film, and linked nicely to the previous showing of Herzog's Rescue Dawn in its shared need to blur fiction-reality. Recommended for all Korean film fans.
Next up was A Dirty Carnival, a South Korean gangster flick with heart.
Obviously low-budget, I was feeling a little detached from the drama unfolding on screen. But from nowhere the film surprised me with a sudden visceral burst of extreme violence. Fist on flesh kind of stuff. Perhaps a few spinning round-house kicks, but nothing that looked too out of the ordinary for our hero - well played by In-seong Jo - which reminded me of the natural fighting talents of Phanom Yeeram (Tony Jaa) in Ong-Bak.
A Soundtrack fueled by a pseudo-Greek waltz on the accordian lent the film a world-weary air, although within the film were strategic set-piece musical sequences as each main character had a go in expressing themselves through karaoke.
This was a film within a film, and linked nicely to the previous showing of Herzog's Rescue Dawn in its shared need to blur fiction-reality. Recommended for all Korean film fans.
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