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KOREANFILM.ORG DARCY 关于这三部电影的评论,当然只是个人的意见
<马拉松>
2005.01.17: Running Boy One of my favorite weekday activities here in Seoul is to attend press screenings. For the Korean films, these press screenings are usually the first time the film is shown to a public audience -- the world premiere, in other words. Once or twice a week, you get a chance to see a film before any reviews are written or comments posted on the internet. Usually they're held at 2pm at either Seoul Theater or Yongsan CGV, and all you need to do is exchange your business card for a free ticket. ("Free" being a big draw for me too, particularly for the really bad movies that you don't want to fork over money to see).
Today's press screening was Jeong Yun-cheol's Running Boy (the Korean title is simply "Marathon"). It's based on a true story, which is usually a draw for local viewers (a poll last year showed that viewers thought the biggest reason behind Silmido's success was its being based on a true story). Cho Seung-woo plays an autistic boy who likes to run road races, and his mother tries to get a washed-up old coach to train him for running a full marathon.
The film's a huge tear-jerker, and it seemed to work exceptionally well with the crowd. There are certain types of films like I Am Sam which do really well in Korea and Japan, but don't really click with most viewers elsewhere -- this might be one example. Personally I was really not in the mood to watch a tear-jerker of this type, either... maybe it has something to do with having an infant baby at home. But I must say Cho Seung-woo's acting was quite natural, and on the whole it was pretty well made. I'm predicting a sizeable local hit.
2) <公共之敌2>
2005.01.18: Another Public Enemy Today's press screening was Another Public Enemy, Kang Woo-suk's followup to the popular Public Enemy (2002). Kang mentioned in an interview late last year that his company's fortunes were riding on this film. If it does badly, he says, Cinema Service may have to give up distribution altogether. We'll have to wait and see if that's actually the case, but at any rate there was a lot of interest and expectation surrounding this new film.
It's not really a sequel in the proper sense, because even though it once again stars Sol Kyung-gu, he plays a different character here (a public prosecutor) and it's an entirely different setting. The general feeling after the screening was that it's an entertaining picture, but it lacks completely the hard-as-nails edge of the previous film. Parts of it are quite melodramatic, in fact. This may be partly due to having Jeong Jun-ho as the "public enemy", rather than the more talented Lee Sung-jae. Jeong's good at portraying the upper-crust sense of entitlement that his character possesses, but he doesn't have the same intensity. The screenplay in general is much softer, too.
Personally, my biggest problem with the film was its length, at two and a half hours. It dwells on establishing character for pretty much all of the first 90 minutes, and only develops its momentum in the final hour. Kang Woo-suk used to be notorious for cutting films down to 100 minutes in ruthless fashion, but in the past couple years he seems to have swung back far in the opposite direction.
3)<那时代,那些人>
2005.01.24: The President's Last Bang Tonight was the night... After hearing so much talk about this movie, I finally got a chance to see it, and I'm thrilled. It's being labeled as a political bombshell: portraying a former president (dictator) who still remains quite popular with many members of the Korean populace as basically a womanizing, pathetic loser (the veiled sexual connotation of "Last Bang" is surely intentional). And it is a political bombshell, but it's not politics a la Michael Moore. Im Sang-soo has created an extremely thought-provoking movie that can probably only be fully appreciated with multiple viewings. I'm sure that none of the media attention lavished on this film will be able to do justice to its complexity.
Actually Park Chung-hee (referred to simply as "the old man" in the movie) is sort of a minor figure compared to the head of intelligence, played by Baek Yoon-shik, and his assistant, played by Han Suk-kyu. I see this as a story of a handful of people who decide to take history into their own hands, consequences be damned. Setting things in motion turns out to be far simpler than they or we'd ever expect (is it always this simple?), but of course the forces they unleash are considerable.
Both actors do a fantastic job -- this is one of the best performances I've ever seen from Han, and Baek is simply an acting deity. The film is shot and constructed with as much flair as you'd expect from the director of A Good Lawyer's Wife. The storyline is also enveloped in a macabre humor that is the perfect antidote to the chest-thumping heroism we've been getting in other recent portrayals of Korean history.
At long last, this is a film that fulfils the medium's potential for re-examining history. Films about history are not about "showing it like it was", they're about shattering myths and making you question everything you've previously heard about a particular event. Im Sang-soo's deromanticized, seemingly offhand style accomplishes this better than any other Korean film I've seen. Im is quickly turning into one of Korea's most indispensable directors.
*总结下来,DARCY认为<马拉松>对韩国人有催泪效果,应该有一定市场.<公共之敌2>太长了,郑俊浩的表演远远没有李成宰的效果,<那时代,那些人>很让人惊喜,但是也是争议最大的,林常树是个很不错的导演. |
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发表于 2005-1-30 18:22
,6月在日本上映还能捞回来点
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