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Soh (2018)
Intelligent 16 minutes
It took only 16 mins. Short films are literally "short". So it doesn't put pressure on time, but it does give us less. This requires greate courage to sit in front of our own screen.
A camera with a bewilderingly limited movement. A story that croesses several layers with drama, reality, and another reality. It's enough to make a suspense. Of course, the props are cold enough. There's no doubt that this movie spent 16 mins very intelligently.
It's fine, but not a 4-star movie. I don't know if it's a short film or it didn't touch. Perhaps the latter.
Anyway, it's a blessing of the time that we can watch these short and easy-to-forget films films in front of our own screen thanks to the OTT platform.
Autumn in New York (2000)
Likely to happen in real life; but still fantasy.
It's more like fantasy. Of course, it's likely to happen in real life, but it is indented to show the fantasies of men and women.
The expression of the two actors overflowing with love was good enough to see them until the end. I wonder whether it was the actors themselves or chemistry that was completely directed. Anyway, I really like the sparkle of Winona Ryder.
When I'm tempted to travel or interact with people, it's good to see a movie that can be seen lightly like this. The world cannot be filled with just Faust and Ulysses.
Sogongnyeo (2017)
Everything is perfect and nothing bothers me.
Everything is perfect and nothing bothers me. If all those who produce movies have this much sense, directing, and neatness, the world will be filled with really good films.
I literally can't believe such a wonderful and beautiful movie can be made with $320k in production costs. It is super LIT!
The most remarkable thing is lighting. The lighting behind the camera, which illuminates characters in a narrow space such as a dark alley or room, evokes naturalness but also makes them more adorable. However, there was no lighting in the scene of couple at dawn, and this delivers the temperature of air, which is so much colder and heavier. I really like these lighting decisions.
The structure, script, and acting were also good. Leakless structure, editing without superfluous parts! I felt like that I read a tidy article with a fabulous topic and solution.
It was a very enviable and respectful time for people who make fun things fun. The world is full of fun and cool stuffs, and it makes me struggling!
Hyeon-jeong, Dae-yong, and Rok-yi's episodes were very fun and giggling, but Jung-mi's consternated me. The movie was so adept at getting the issue off the table, but I think we should highlight it.
"I have money for a glass of whiskey and cigarettes, but no money to pay the rent."
If I regard the former as a metaphor for the most indispensable and fundemental cost of pursuing individual happiness, yes I can agree. I don't want to force the people to give it up. However, I think it is a pretty dangerous idea to ask someone else for a favor because I'm willing to give someone a bed when he or she asks me. I would have hooked if Mi-so slept in the parks and spent the rent at an indispensable basic cost. But she decided to share the burden with others, so she didn't lose anything. Of course, Jung-mi is rich to waste in throwing good food away, so in that episode it's almost Jung-mi's fault to reject Mi-so. But I doubt that Mi-so did well.
"Let's owe a favor to others just until I save the deposit of the house rent."
Can't she stop pursuing her own happiness until she save the deposit?
Drive (2011)
This movie used lighting very cleverly.
There was a creepy point when Ryan Gosling, a Canadian like all the nicest people as Meryl Streep said, used violence with an expressionless face.
This movie used lighting very cleverly. Thanks to this, mise-en-scene can be felt even in the ordinary-looking composition. The editing was also clean.
I'm a bit opposite to the casting of Carey Mulligan. She's a good actor but doesn't seem to fit in with the role. Besides, I doubt its Best Director Award from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Maybe, there is a gap between 2011 and now.
The movie leaves room for the epilogue and prologue, but I'm not curious about them. I guess the movie didn't suit me.
Not long ago, in Korea, it was running in the theater for re-release, and I repeated to reserve and cancel it. Anyway, it's fortunate to see it before the end of the year. If I hadn't seen it now, I'd have put it off again and again!
Guang yin de gu shi (1982)
Wonderful shooting is more of a setup than a capture.
In Our Time is an anthology film directed by four Taiwanese New Wave directors. Though the four stories are obviously independent, I felt like that they present a single stream.
I'm pretty sure that Taiwanese New Wave directors are all shooting the movements of objects, including characters, in the camera. It is more of a setup than a capture. Even the movement of light seems set. This makes me feel such pleasant to watch their movies.
All four films are really wonderful, but the second one by Edward Yang and the fourth by Yi Chang are particularly good.
The fourth episode is wrapped up in Claude Bolling's music from Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio album. As soon as the story started, Sentimentale came out and it really stimulated me. It's just a fuss, but such emotions are poured into it.
I must begin to watch Edward Yang's another masterpiece, "That day, on the Beach."
Rebecca (1940)
The great interaction between characters, space, and camera.
I really like acting. Not only Mrs. Danvers but also Mrs. de Winter, Maxim, and Jack Favell all seem absorbed into the role. They made the characters alive literally. Especially, I like Favell's face when he came down to Rebecca's secret and Maxim's clumsy movement. I totally agree with Hitchcock who thinks Vivian Leigh, whom Laurence Olivier recommended as the role of "I", is the perfect Rebecca.
People say that this movie is the most different one from other Hitchcock films. However, the interaction between characters, space, and camera as well as the all-pervading atmosphere of gloom are obviously Hitchcock's. I felt captivated by using this movie in my current IPD research with the camera movements shooting Manderley around.
(Spoiler)
~~The structure that Rebecca never appears in is really interesting. Rebecca exists nowhere but everywhere.~~
I began to watch this movie right after booking the musical Rebecca Daejeon tour. Although the show was canceled twice due to Covid-19, I'd not finished it yet. Eventually, I watched it for a few months with keeping the chillness. I really liked that long waiting. I think I should quickly move on to the next movie, Psycho.
Coco (2017)
technique, message, and impression across the generation
I don't know why I was a bit boring in the beginning part of the movie. Maybe is it because I'm not familiar with Mexican culture or the skeletal characters? Anyway, as time goes by, I have begun to entirely get into the story.
I really like the documentary that includes the journey that key staffs visit Mexico. Needless to say, the origin of the imagination is a reality.
I envy the staffs who visited the real Mexican family to collect the background source. It even inspires me, who lives on the other side of the earth, and cannot imagine how much they feel and are inspired. By the way, Coco can be used to back up the feasibility of the CityCraft in terms of the imaginary city generation.
I'm totally touched to "Remember Me" that Miguel sings to and with Coco. After the movie ended, it's still in my playlist. What an Oscar winner!
007 Spector, which presents the same "Day of the Dead" but shows differently, was evoked.
Coco is the reason itself why animation exists. The technique that properly infuses the imagination and reality, the message, and the impression across the generation. The mise-en-scene, direction, and editing are well-controlled but without restriction. If I can support the generation of movies like Coco, I'd love to continue studying graphics.
It also reminds me of the team that runs for the same goal. A team is essential to bring what to bring and make what to make. Film production cannot be achieved by a single person. If I'm part of a team, I don't have to be a professional in every area. This reminds me of the value of the team as a systematic relation. Recently, I'm obsessed with the Laboratory Survey release, which leads me to think many times about why the team exists.
There seem to be a lot of interesting topics to study. A cloth simulation that applies to the skeleton, not a body, or procedural modeling visible everywhere. Watching Coco makes me somewhat flutter again.
Samjin Group Yeong-aw TOEIC-ban (2020)
Full of cliche-ridden things, but still not bad.
Though Covid-19 beats the theater screening, I, on the side of the audience, like the situation a bit because of a lot of small movies and re-released masterpieces. If there were no pandemic, I wonder how this movie is scored and evaluated.
This movie seems not as good as much as I expected. It is full of cliche-ridden lighting and editing. I like the way that they harvest the MacGuffins, but the purse of the story's development is somewhat messy.
I'm really sorry to say to the staff, ironically, I prefer the video that three main actors sing the song "What's the matter" in Yu Huiyel's Sketchbook.
The best part of what I like is the balance of the characters. No one stands out but there's a suitable tension between them to lead the development.
Sometimes, I used to feel tired in self-purification of society. I'm getting used to getting rid of it or running away. There is a Korean proverb that if a monk doesn't like the temple, he needs to leave. This movie makes me repeat the verse. Why does the monk have to leave? Is it okay even if the temple is filled with villains? This movie throws a pebble into the calm lake of my mind.
Han yeo-reum-ui pan-ta-ji-a (2014)
Despite its reputation, it was somewhat..
Despite its reputation, it was boring overall. Ryo Iwase's acting was good, but Sae-byeok Kim's was somewhat uncomfortable. I cannot find any clear reason for it. Maybe, it's because she performed ordinary things but seemed like being conscious of the camera.
While taking a shower in the morning after the day watching the movie, I imagine what if other actors played the same role and I'm pretty sure that the results were better than the current one. It's sorry to say this to Kim.
The story is divided into two parts. The connection between them is quite ambiguous so that we cannot assure whether two parts are a continuous story or an imagination. After all, it turns out that the second one might be an imagination of the first part. However, I just became at a loss of what to do and feel. It's the same reason that I dislike Director Sang soo Hong's Films, which makes me conclude with "So What?". It's like someone's diary and short to reflect and find myself in it. It hardly understood why critics are so enthusiastic about this film.
Moreover, I really hate the crude movement of the camera.
I feel like I'm leaving only a harsh review. Maybe I guess, it is quite far from what I expected, a heart-warming story and atmosphere.