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‘The Ugly’: A “must see” movie watch, with Baeksang Winner Park Jeong Min.
The body of a young woman thought to have run away four decades ago is discovered. This brings up unpleasantries for her blind husband and her young son now grown. A funeral is held for the woman without a picture. As old neighbors gather to talk about the young woman, it is clear that the one outstanding trait of the young runaway was that she was very Ugly. This peaks strong curiosity in the son, as to the true appearance of his mother. The father, blind from birth, had never seen his wife.
The Ugly is a profound movie which says a lot about human nature. The Ugly is a simplistic complicated story. Just like a photo use to be developed from a negative, you have to see how the negative turns into a profound positive image in this movie. Only then is true light revealed. The Ugly actually is two movies running at the same time. The one you believe is the image that is captured for you. However, the truth of the story may only be revealed to you when you replay the movie and capture the other movie playing at the same time.
People say that something is deep. The Ugly is a deep movie.
The movie stars Park Jeong Min. I respect him as an actor. He seem to pick the “I don’t know about this one” type of script, as many said for the K-Drama Utopia. When you look at his choices, however, you see that his brain just operates faster than most people. Park Jeong Min sees it before we do. Park Jeong Min won the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Actor for the Movie Category for his work in The Ugly. Park Jeong Min plays a double role, that of the son in the future and the father in the past. Please put this movie on your list to view and be prepared to see it twice.
Note: Since The Ugly is a rental on Prime Video, to replay just rewind or digest it and replay later. You have 24 hours for each rental.
The Ugly is a profound movie which says a lot about human nature. The Ugly is a simplistic complicated story. Just like a photo use to be developed from a negative, you have to see how the negative turns into a profound positive image in this movie. Only then is true light revealed. The Ugly actually is two movies running at the same time. The one you believe is the image that is captured for you. However, the truth of the story may only be revealed to you when you replay the movie and capture the other movie playing at the same time.
People say that something is deep. The Ugly is a deep movie.
The movie stars Park Jeong Min. I respect him as an actor. He seem to pick the “I don’t know about this one” type of script, as many said for the K-Drama Utopia. When you look at his choices, however, you see that his brain just operates faster than most people. Park Jeong Min sees it before we do. Park Jeong Min won the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Actor for the Movie Category for his work in The Ugly. Park Jeong Min plays a double role, that of the son in the future and the father in the past. Please put this movie on your list to view and be prepared to see it twice.
Note: Since The Ugly is a rental on Prime Video, to replay just rewind or digest it and replay later. You have 24 hours for each rental.
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