Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
That desire, the greed to finally get what you want. To defeat your inner monsters, which create a monster out there to defeat, which drive you to become one yourself. For Jang Do-Young (Kwon Sang-Woo), that monster is happiness, which never seems to come, the search for some sort of answer driving his violent life as a detective. For prosecutor Oh Jin-Woo, it’s ultimate justice for those who deserve to be punished, those who always seem to find a way out through less than lawful means. For Yoo Gang-Jin (Son Byung-Ho), that ruthless monster is his own way of life, jumping from family to ‘family’, trusting nobody and not being able to trust anyone. But behind all those monsters is a common problem, that desire driving our instincts to the limit, even if we lose everything in the process. First time director Kim Sung-Soo—not to be confused with the director of 무사 (Musa: The Warrior), for the last time—knows that desire all too well, as it engulfed him for years, without realizing the many things he was leaving behind.
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Reader Comments
axleu 05/15/2006 @ 4:48am
Even with its faults, this is the best (IMHO) crime movie out of South Korea since A bittersweet life (yeah, I’m the one who didn’t like Lady vengeance AT ALL, the same goes for Princess Aurora, so...)
jon pais 05/15/2006 @ 3:27pm
Yeah, meticulous direction, superb cinematography, great performances, and exquisite packaging sure get a trifle tedious after a while, don’t they?!
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