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The Art of Fighting Review
Posted by Todd Brown at 10:33am.
Posted in Film & DVD Reviews , Drama, Asia.
The Art of Fighting is a film that plays much better on second viewing once expectations have had a chance to adjust. This is a film that bears remarkably little resemblance to its marketing campaign, a film that plays things almost entirely straight despite a trailer that presents it as an off-kilter buddy picture and poster art featuring one of the leads levitating with a hand outstretched in benediction while the other mugs shamelessly for the camera. This begs the question: Is The Art of Fighting a misfire, a film that misses its mark almost entirely, or is it a case of misguided marketers trying to force a film into a box where it has no business being? While there are definitely some misses over the running time the answer is almost entirely the latter. Korea is, remember, the same country that tried to present genuinely bizarre and truly ingenius genre-buster Save the Green Planet as a standard romantic comedy and then reacted with shock when the film tanked.
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amandine 07/27/2006 @ 9:32pm
i do not agreee with your comment.I don’t think this movie is a comedy.yes,there are some funny moments but it’s black humour. people may have been disappointed in the movie cause of the mislead of marketing.maybe you should watching it again without thinking of any comical aspects.it’s a really good movie when you take it for what it is.
Paul 01/29/2007 @ 9:39am
I thought that the film was far from funny, even if the comments from amandine suggest it’s “black humor” I didn’t even find it funny in the morbid “American Beauty” sense of black humor.
However, I did find it compelling. I couldn’t turn away. And the film had heart. I enjoyed it for what it was and what it wasn’t.
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