Sunday, July 24, 2016
Maternalisitic
Today's film is a story about mother love.
But it is Asian possessive mother love driven by the fact that her child is mentally challenged. Protective doesn't even begin to describe it.
There is a lot of moral ambiguity and wrong guessing on the part of incompetent authorities. It ends up not being about innocence and guilt so much as who gets caught and how that process works. Quite a lot of fun. And very well done.
It is a police procedural although it is the mother who does the proceeding. The cops are useless.
Just remember, do not cross an intense loving mother.
The acting is superb. I got it partly because it stars Weon Bin. Here he is very young, adolescent. He does not have his sexy bones yet but you can see them emerging. And, while playing a less than bright lad.
It is a Korean film.
Pretty good, those Koreans. They do rage and retribution better than most.
I liked it a lot but I would not want to see it again. That makes it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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