FrothyMix

Wow. You're an idiot. It is entirely possible for "sex scenes" to be staged and filmed in such a way that a 60 year old and a six year old are never even in the same room. It's called acting, directing, staging, etc. The fact that you are comparing a six year-old girl to a 15 year-old boy shows how off-kilter your perspective is anyway. And no, I have no problem with a 15 year-old taking part in a staged sex scene that doesn't involve actual sex. Did you know there are MILLIONs of kids who are emotionally/sexually messed-up who never acted in anything in their lives? Did you know there are lots of messed-up actors who never took part in a sex scene in any movie? Finally, you twisted so much of my position in this comment that I'm not going to address it further.

Great example of the kind of synopsis all too common here on MDL, that gives away MAJOR plot points, if not the entire freaking movie, which is also not unusual. Follow that up with a pile of "tags" (read trigger warnings) that fill in any blanks and there's little need to watch the film as you've been robbed of any surprises or twists you might not have seen coming. This is definitely an MDL problem. I don't see these kinds of detailed synopses on IMDB or other sites I frequent. Frustrating.

Anyone who hasn't seen Yoo Ah In's earlier starring work in "Punch," should jog on over and do so immediately. As an actor, he has what is needed to play any kind of role believably. And after a little research, I now know that he is incredibly famous already and that "Burning" almost won an Academy Award. He has won a shit-ton of awards personally. I am not at all surprised, despite his mouth-breathing in this film :D But back to "Punch," I much prefer my films dark and a little freaky, but "Punch" is the kind of feel-good movie I can totally get behind and buy into. LOVE it.

You obviously watched some other movie.

As a feel-good movie with heart that earns its good feels, I don't know how it can get much better than this! WOW. 9/10 from me. Never felt schmaltzy or, had a nice rough edge to it that made the sweetness it did have feel all the more real. I had hoped the dad and the "uncle" would turn out to be a couple but I guess not. lol

God, I enjoyed this movie so much. Yoo Ah In is a great young actor with everything needed to carry this film, with tremendous supporting work from all sides. That mother/son hug was the dearest thing I've seen in months.

I have been watching lots of school bully and crime-centered flicks lately. This was the perfect antidote to all those negative vibes, as much as I do love negative vibes. :) No murders, no rapes, no twisted psycho shit, just well-deserved human goodness at the end of a nice journey.

BRAVO!

What a great ride and where's my sequel?
Joy, joy and more joy in a horrible situation and spirituality spewing in all directions.
I love this movie.
Every time I think I've seen the most handsome/beautiful Asian man possible (and ALL the most handsome/beautiful men are Asian), along comes another one to blow me backwards out of my chair.
Yeo Jin Goo is breath-takingly gorgeous. And I kept thinking he reminded me of Michael Jackson in 1983 during the "Thriller" era before he had had much done to his face. I just gave away my advanced age. lol

I think so too. :D

Love this movie for too many reasons to list, but am put off by two things:
Hate when scripts separate people, be they lovers or friends, who should and COULD be together, for no apparent reason at all. They could have arranged to meet somehow after SM's fllght. But the director wanted a sad ending so this is what we got.
I choose to believe they are more gay for each other than straight. SO many references throughout the film to Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz and Over the Rainbow. I mean, come on...plus, emotional chemistry off the charts.
Finally, I HATE the message films like this propagate about Electro-Shock Therapy, or Electric-Convulsive Therapy as it is more widely known today. This was made just six years ago and set in the modern day so there is no excuse for the prehistoric attitude about ECT. It has for many years been used humanely to bring people back from the brink of oblivious mental illness when drugs won't do the trick. It is done under full-body anaesthesia; the only part of the body that convulses is the brain and the toes on one foot, below where they place a tight band to prevent the anaesthesia from reaching. During the electro-shock, the patient remains perfectly still, as if sleeping. The muscle contractions of the toes are how they know the convulsions are taking place and when they stop, it's over, depending on how many jolts you're getting. Here we get Soo Myung in full convulsion as if it's 1955 and they haven't got the anaesthesia thing figured out yet. To see this film portray ECT as something you come out of bleeding from the mouth with a bruised face and purple eyes like the kid on the gurney, is ridiculous and harmful because people need to know that such a thing is NOT reality.

OK, rant over, because other than those quibbles, I love the energy and joy under deplorable conditions of this film. The dancing scene and the scene where Seung Min tells the grieving mother about his dream of her daughter, were transcendent and of course their freedom-ride was a joy to behold. Very glad I stopped overlooking this flick and finally watched it. LOVE.

Nah...I'll keep doing me. If people act like tender flowers or delicate snowflakes I'm OK with calling attention to that. But...there IS a difference between me referring to "tender flowers" in the third person and another commenter taking that as a personal attack because they perceive THEMSELVES as belonging to that group, and actually saying "hey, YOU are a tender flower." However, sometimes people seem to actually be that thing and I'm OK with saying that too. I get called names here fairly regularly and I'm alive to talk about it, so yeah, it's not a big deal to me.

I get especially touchy surrounding issues of censorship, SJW self-righteousness, prudery, sex-negativity, etc., all of which things like "trigger warnings" and piles of "tags" dance way too close to for my comfort.

It seems that people by nature, LOVE rumors and gossip. Seriously, at least for me it takes a real effort to pay attention to what I'm saying sometimes and how much of it I KNOW for a fact to be true and how much of THAT, if any, I need to be repeating to others.

too artsy/lazy for its own good.

Why is it animal abuse? Hundreds of thousands of farm animals are killed every single day all around the world for food and other purposes. Why is that suddenly NOT OK because we saw something akin to that on film? At first I thought maybe they used actual footage, but it seemed the animals really WERE just being buried alive and my god, that's pretty cold. At least with a slaughterhouse execution the death is quick. Unfortunately, both cattle and pigs are plenty intelligent enough to know that something very horrifying is going down and it's not good.

you're forgetting dear old Dad.

Yes, I took it at the end that they drowned in the lake. Apparently drowning in freezing water is a good way to go. I have lots of other questions though, which I put in a spoiler above if you want to check them out. The baby could be her dad's too, remember? That whole thing was never made clear. Seems like she and Young Su only did it once and the diagnosis was too quick for it to be his, don't you think? This is one of those movies that "lets the viewer decide the ending..." which translates to "too lazy to figure out an artistic and satisfying way to define an ending."

I have many questions. If you're interested, please check the spoiler post below this.

So when you drown to death in freezing water, it happens instantaneously, there aren't five or ten minutes of thrashing, freezing to death, gulping in lake water? You just go from being alive to being dead and that's it and furthermore...it's warm there?
They were practically out of the country/at the airport. Why go back and turn yourselves in or die?
Who was the baby-daddy, the crazy dad or the repugnant village manager? Maybe BOTH OR EITHER?
Why was dad going back and forth to her room? Or was he?
Why not force the doctor to do an abortion and THEN kill him?
Why spend all that time burying the bodies when there's blood all over the doctor's office and all over the inside of that farm building and all the body-dragging and burying will be obvious as hell anyway?
How did they get from being all covered in blood and mud to clean and gorgeous in nice black outfits to go sight-seeing on the bus?
So she DID cut off the dad's arm/hand and flush it down the outdoor toilet? wtf? seriously? Who else could have done it?
Why in the hell did the parents of the boy who jumped off the building blame our MC for it? That dad slapping at his head just made me want to deck the bastard. That Korean head-slapping thing makes me crazy.
I got bored with this flick and almost dropped but then it got interesting near the middle, and then I was annoyed with myself for sticking around when the artsy-fartsy, super-symbolic, conveniently melting-ice thing happened at the end. I was hoping FOR ONCE we'd get a flick where people who SHOULD get away with murder actually do.

"triggered." lol

Also, please consider the possibility that the makers INTENDED you to be made uncomfortable. Drama is allowed to do that, you know.

Why is it that you believe I am "upset" exactly? I haven't thought about this or my comment one way or the other since I wrote it earlier today. I find that when I word my comments strongly here on MDL, commenters frequently come back with this "ooh, I don't understand why you are upset" thing. What it is is a transparent attempt to denigrate the content of my comment by implying that it was written by someone in a state of emotional turbulence rather than rational thought. Now, please explain why YOU are so upset, OK?

I don't believe in trigger warnings, frankly. I think they are a fad, a cultural hicccup, like "body positivity" as a mask for promoting unhealthy/deadly levels of obesity. I read an article a couple of weeks ago by a Harvard professor who believes trigger warnings do more harm than good by putting the reader/viewer/listener in a heightened state of emotional alert which they carry with them throughout the entire movie, book, play, whatever and causes them to misinterpret/overreact to much of the content within. In other words, "triggers" are simply a part of life and we all experience them to one degree or another. Being emotionally healthy enough to not be taken to one's knees by a rape scene in a movie ls just being capable of navigating through the world as a human being. No one has the right to expect to be free of all "triggers."

Now, for those people who ARE so fragile they cannot handle such things, they can do the little bit of researcch required, and which is done easily on the Internet, to give them all the info they need about a drama to make a choice. They don't need to have it spoon-fed to them as you are doing here, as though they are delicate glass figurines who will otherwise shatter. And the rest of us should be able to read a synopsis that doesn't give away the whole freaking plot. Well-written synopses that convey the flavor of a show without exposing plot points are all over IMDB. It's here on MDL I keep running into synopses that give away every detail, followed by a list of tags I have to avert my eyes from if I want to experience a drama from as blank-slate a perspective as possible.

For those of you who MUST have tags, they should be put behind a "tag" button on which you can click to be forewarned. The fact that people on MDL now expect a pile of trigger warnings at the bottom of each synopsis is sad and funny at the same time. There is a REASON these things are properly referred to as "spoilers."

And if you are so delicate that you can't be expected to research a show or click a button to protect yourself, well then, you shouldn't be experiencing art at all. You should stay home under the covers and protect yourself. Do, however, have fun standing at the front of this comment section, waving your giant spoiler flag for the tender flowers of MDL.

"bro," lol And you sound like a moron who posts incoherent comments replying to people other than the one they think they're writing to. Yeah, I'm sure you ARE "sick of my shit." It can be discomforting for delusional embiciles to be confronted with reality.