There were many times I felt so disgusted I almost turned the movie off, but somehow couldn’t rip my eyes away from the screen. I’m not sure whether to classify it as a cinema masterpiece or something akin to a solar eclipse that will leave permanent scars on my retinas.
Posts Tagged ‘Drama’
Old Boy (Oldeuboi)
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Y tu mamá también
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Netflix describes this film as “an escapade that involves seduction, conflict and the harsh realities of poverty.” If you count awkward teenager sex as seductive, hormonal outbursts and senseless double crosses as conflict, and an anonymous narrator occasionally suggesting some secondary characters are on the low end of the economic spectrum as the harsh realities of poverty, then this description is dead on.