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Spirits' Homecoming korean movie review
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Spirits' Homecoming
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by Jian Quan
Sep 12, 2018
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
This review may contain spoilers
Story of Korean sex-slaves during World War II. Somehow doesn't make the Japanese evil gruesome enough, but I guess they wanted to make it easy enough viewing without rubbing the horrific details in everybody's face the entire movie. A gripping drama connecting the tragic events with how one of the victims deals emotionally with the shame decades later. A important movie, though not a total homerun.

I was angered as thinking about those many women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during the World War II. I was infuriated about how their dark history was clumsily and blatantly presented through rote storytelling and incompetent filmmaking. Feeling depressed and disgusted more and more, I constantly sighed to myself with resignation during the morning screening on March 1st, which happens to be the Independence Movement Day in South Korea.


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